To develop and provide professionally trained managers, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan established the Department of Business Administration in December, 1977 and classes for the first batch started on March 15, 1978. IMS is now one of the largest business school of the country with well over 1000 students and a permanent faculty of 30 teachers with a large complex of buildings providing all possible facilities at one place. These, together with the congenial environment offered by a very attractive University Campus, set in unspoiled countryside, will make most memorable stay at the Campus.
The goal of the Institute is to prepare students for a successful management career. Since its inception, the Institute has endeavored to give its students an education that enables them to face any challenge in their professional life. Up till now, more than 1700 students have graduated from the Institute who occupy middle and senior management positions in the hierarchy of national and multinational organizations.

Vision
To be a leading Business School in the region, committed to excellence in Management Studies & Business Research that could professionally contribute toward Industrial & Economic Development.


Mission
Institute of Management Sciences (IMS) is striving for enabling environment in which business graduates could develop their Managerial & Research skills through flexible and diversified curriculum and comprehensive professional development programs. IMS is creating value for students through Masters & Undergraduates programs, for teachers through providing challenging working environment and setting high teaching & research standards, and for business community through providing outstanding graduates and publishing quality research. A team of learned faculty members with diversified academic and research background in the areas like accounting, finance, management, marketing and behavioral & social sciences is doing its best for attaining high performance standards by means of:
• Capability and competency building for professional development.
• Critical and analytical thinking for managerial problem solving.
• Creativity and team work.
• Managerial and leadership abilities.
• Producing quality research

Our aims are:
• to introduce the most up-to-date systems, theories and methods of
decision making in Management
• to provide an appreciation of the complementary nature of different systems
• to enable students to make choices and decisions using systems approaches
• to develop an awareness of the wider impacts of those choices and decisions in the real life situation.

Computer Education
The Institute is first to offer computer education in whole of Southern Punjab. In 1984, a Certificate Course in Computer Applications was offered for the working people in the evening. This course was well
received which led to its up-gradation to an advanced Post-Graduate Diploma (PGD) in Computer Programming and Systems Analysis. This program was later on upgraded to a full-fledged MBA (MIS) degree
program.

Faculty of the Institute
The permanent faculty of the Institute consists of 30 teachers out of which 9 teachers have Ph.D. degrees in Business Administration from well reputed local and foreign universities. The teachers are highly committed and motivated. 09 teachers from the faculty of the Institute are currently pursuing higher education from local and foreign universities. The Institute also has a large adjunct faculty consisting of senior teachers of other departments as well as experienced executives from business and industry.

Facilities
The Institute has incomparable facilities in terms of class rooms, library and computer labs. Its complex consists of large number of
air conditioned well equipped class rooms, with latest furniture and audio-visual system. In each classroom Multi Media System facility is also provided to demonstrate the lectures and facilitate student projects and
presentations. A video library containing seminars delivered by experts on various topics is available in the Business Information Center.

Executive Center
Executive Center has been established in the Institute which provides state of the art facilities to the students. It contains a spacious lecture theatre, a student lounge, conference rooms and a “Business Information Center”.

Business Information Center
The Business Information Centre contains more than 9000 books on various subjects of Business Administration. A number of national and international journals are subscribed. A large number of journals pertaining to various titles of Business Administration are available online for free access of the students.

Computer Labs.
The Institute has four modern computer labs equipped with latest breed of computers. Each lab also has multimedia facility. All the computers in the institute are connected through a networking system. To ensure their maximum exposure to the use of computing techniques in business all the students have ready and easy access to computers. Free internet facility is also provided to the students.

Institute’s Bus Service
The Institute has two buses which ply between the campus and the city. These buses provide pick and drop facility to the students throughout the day.

Journal of Business Management
The Institute has launched an academic journal named “Journal of Business
Management” which publishes research papers on issues of business, management & industry.

Management Link
A magazine Management Link, of the IMS is published regularly containing quality work produced by the students in the form of articles, essays, short stories, poems, features etc. both in English as well as Urdu.

IMS News Letter
Monthly News Letters are published highlighting the activities of the institute. They also update the students with the current changes and developments taking place in business and industry. The News
Letter is circulated widely among industry and business institutions.

Executive Club/Executive Forum
Executive Club and Executive Forum are student bodies of the Institute representing morning and evening students respectively. These student bodies conduct various functions and seminars in the Institute and provide opportunities to their community to participate in academic and co- curricular activities and contribute through their creative ideas.