The department of Commerce and Management Studies, the single largest faculty in Andhra University started Commerce at PG level in 1936.  Later B.Com.  Honors course was commenced.  Further in 1957, two year MBA Full-Time programme was offered.  In view of the industrial growth of Visakhapatnam city and to meet the needs of executives, the Department started three year M.B.A. evening programme in 1977-78.

At present the Department is offering the following courses at PG level.

• Under Full time programme, two year Master of Commerce with an intake of 50 students and two year Master of Business Administration with an intake of 60 students (30 in each section).
   

• Under Part time programme three year Master of Business Administration for executive is offered with an intake of 40 students.
   

• The department is also offering five PG Diploma Courses in
  a) Transport Management
  b) International Business
  c) HRD and Industrial Harmony
  d) Accounting Software
  e) Bank Management.

RESEARCH PROGRAMMES

     Apart from the above, the Department has taken up Research Programmes leading to M.Phil. and Ph.D. i.e., on full time and part time basis for fresh post graduate students, in-service college teachers in Commerce and Management and in-service executives from industry.

SPONSORED RESEARCH PROGRAMMES

     Several Research projects have been carried out with the financial assistance from various national funding agencies like UGC, AICTE, Ministry of HRD, ICSSR and also industry sponsored projects.

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

     To give academic training to teachers working in Universities and affiliated colleges, the Department has taken up refresher courses and orientation courses through the Academic Staff College, as well as refresher and orientation courses financed by the UGC and AICTE.

    To help the budding managers and the entrepreneurs the Department has conducted a number of training programmes financed by Small Industry Development Bank of India (SIDBI), the Andhra University and also by many local Industries/organizations like Dredging Corporation of India, HPCL, Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, NTPC etc.

    Since the refresher and orientation programmes conducted through Academic Staff College are found to be not sufficient to met the requirements of a large number of teachers, the Department also conducted refresher and orientation programmes on self-financing basis.

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