A Bachelor of Information Management (BIM) degree is an undergraduate academic degree

Academic degree

An academic degree is a position and title within a college or university that is usually awarded in recognition of the recipient having either satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of study or having conducted a scholarly endeavour deemed worthy of his or her admission to the degree...

 requiring four years of study to acquire. This degree is a hybrid program with about a mix of management

Management

Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...

 and information theory

Information theory

Information theory is a branch of applied mathematics and electrical engineering involving the quantification of information. Information theory was developed by Claude E. Shannon to find fundamental limits on signal processing operations such as compressing data and on reliably storing and...

courses.

Objective

• Prepare IT professionals proficient in the use of computers and computational techniques in order to develop effective information systems to solve real life problems in the organizational milieu.
• Develop students' skill in object-oriented software design methods and data management systems.
• Provide professional training to students by combining information technology with managerial skills.
• Prepare students to proceed on to post graduate level study in information management within and outside the country.

Course Cycle

The BIM programme requires students to study 120 credit hours in four years with at least 2.0 CPGA. The composition of the courses is as follows.

Curricula Structure

Courses	Credit hours
Management Courses	27 Credit Hours
Analytical and Support Courses	27 Credit Hours
Information Technology and Computing Courses	60 Credit Hours
Elective Courses	6 Credit Hours
Internship:Industrial Attachment Project	6 Credit Hours
Total	126 Credit Hours

First Semester

Subject	Credit hour
MGT 201:English Composition	3
ENG 201:Principles of Management	3
MTH 201:Basic Mathematics	3
ITC 211:Computer Information System	3
ITC 212:Digital Logic	3

Second Semester

Subject	Credit hour
SOC 201: Sociology	3
MTH 202: Discrete Mathematics	3
MGT 204: Business Communication	3
ITC 213: Structured Programming	3
ITC 214: Data Communication and Computer	3

Third Semester

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Subject	Credit hour
STT 201: Statistics	3
ITC 216: Object Oriented Programming	3
ITC 217: Microprocessor Programming	3
PSY 201: Psychology	3
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Fourth Semester

Subject	Credit hour
account| 3-	ECO 201: Micro Economics	3
ITC 218: Database Management System	3
ITC 219: Web Technology	3
ITC 220: Computer Organization	3

Fifth Semester

Subject	Credit hour
ACC 202: Cost and Management Accounting	3
ECO 202: Macro Economics	3
ITC 221: Computer Graphics	3
ITC 222: JAVA Programming	3
ITC 223: Artificial Intelligence	3

Sixth Semester

Subject	Credit hour
FIN 201: Business Finance	3
MGT 205: Operations Management	3
MKT 201: Principles of Marketing System	3
ITC 224: Client Server Computing	3
ITC 225: Software Engineering	3

Seventh Semester

Subject	Credit hour
LOG 201: Decision Making and Critical Thinking	3
MGT 203: Organizational Relations	3
MGT 202: Human Resource Management	3
ITC 226: Management Information System	3
ITC 227: IT Enterperneurship and Supply Chain Management	3
ITC 228: High Speed Network and Multimedia Networking	3

Eight Semester

Subject	Credit hour
ITC 229: Computer Security and Cyber Law	3
ITC 230: Economics of Information and Communication	3
Elective I	3
Elective II	3
ITC 223: Internship: Industrial Attachment Project	6

Elective

Subject	Credit hour
ITC 301: System Administration - Win NT	3
ITC 3xx: Object Oriented Analysis and Design	3
ITC 3xx: Object Oriented Database Management System	3
ITC 3xx: Software Project Management	3
ITC 302: Graphics User Interface Programming Using C++	3
ITC 303: Computer Based Financial Engineering	3
ITC 304: Electronic Reporting and Auditing of Accounting Information	3

Graduation Requirements

The BIM program extends over eight semesters (four academic years). The BIM degree is awarded on its successful completion. All candidates for the BIM degree must fulfill the following requirements:

• The successful completion of 120 credit hours as prescribed with passing grades of D or GPA of 1.5 in all the papers with an aggregate CGPA of 2.00.
• A minimum of grade 'C' obtained in the Project Work.
• Completion of courses for the fulfillment of the requirements of the BIM Program must occur within seven years from the time of registration.