Institute of Business Management

IoBM started in 1995 as College of Business Management offering BBA and MBA degrees.[2]

IoBM is built on a 9 acres (36,000 m²) site.

IoBM has extensive links with North American Universities. Professors from the Universities of Arizona State and Brock have served as Chief Academic Officers of CBM.[3] The present CBM Dean has over 38 years of experience at the State Bank of Pakistan[4] and Dean, CCSIS has over twelve years teaching experience in US and Pakistani universities.

IoBM's BBA, BCS and BS Joint (Honors) programs have a compulsory foreign language component (Arabic, French, Spanish, German, Japanese and Italian).

IoBM admissions are held once in a year (June) for all programs, twice (June & Dec) for only engineering programs and thrice ( March, June & Dec) for Executive MBA Students. Admission to IoBM is on a highly competitive basis, and only those who compete successfully on merit are selected for admission. After joining IoBM, students continue to pursue their studies with a high level of competitiveness aimed at professional development. Success in aptitude test and interview conducted by IoBM is mandatory for admission to the institute.

• IoBM team won the CIMA Global Business Challenge (GBC) Pakistan 2010.[5] Out of 50 teams competing in the initial stages from universities from Lahore and Karachi, four teams qualified for CIMA Global Business Challenge (GBC) Pakistan Final 2010. Of these, two were from IoBM and two from LUMS. IoBM’s team represented Pakistan in Malaysia where universities from all over the world participated including the UK, Ireland, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, India, China, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, UAE and Australia.
• IoBM won the second prize in Unilever Lipton Hunt-a national completion between leading business schools of Pakistan.
• IoBM won the Business Launch Challenge 2010/2011 by P&G Pakistan.[6] The competition was a part of the P&G Pakistan’s Human Resource Initiatives and was geared towards enhancing students’ grasp of the industry in general and P&G Pakistan’s business in particular. IoBM’s team competed with over 50 teams across Pakistan.

IoBM has a unique type of Event Organization system as compared to other institutes in Karachi. Here, students of different societies arrange all the events themselves with no professional or financial help from IoBM as IoBM's management believes that its students should be self-dependent & take up tasks themselves which will have a positive impact on their personality development. All the recent events in IoBM such as Fun Week (the last week of a graduating batch), CBMUN (Model United Nation) Jashan e Baharan, the Public talk by Imran Khan had been arranged by the society members themselves.[7]

Students having a cup of coffee after a surprise quiz.

• Entertainment Plus Society (EPS) - Organised all the events related to entertainment such as concerts, functions etc.
• Digicon Informatics Society (DIS)
• Social Welfare And Trust (SWAT) - Responsible for social work
• Alumni Development Program (ADP)
• Mathematics society
• Dialogue Society
• Egalitarians Society
• Strategic Human Resource Society (SHRS)
• The Literary and Public Speaking Society - Responsible for organizing debates.
• CBM Society of Health Managers (CSHM)
• The Management Society
• The Marketing Society
• Vanquishers - Organizing the sports events in iobm.
• Media society
• IoBM Club For Entrepreneurs.
• Actuarial Science & Risk Management Society (ARMS)

IoBM is an active member of the following international and national professional bodies.

• International Association of Universities
• International Association of University Presidents
• Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK
• Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific (AUAP), Thailand
• Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, USA
• Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC), Singapore
• Management Association of Pakistan (MAP), (Member, Executive Committee)
• Marketing Association of Pakistan (Vice President for the year 2010-2011)
• Employers Federation of Pakistan
• Institute of Corporate Governance
• International Finance Corporation, USA (IFC)[8]

The Entrepreneurship & Management Excellence Center (EMEC) is the executive Education Wing of IoBM.[9]

• Rabab Hashim, VJ, actor and host
• shahzaib khanzada

Population strategies in Sindh:Semainar by IoBM

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• IBM - HEC Rankings(alternative link)