Work oriented Wales MBA's from Imperial Institute

Imperial Institute of Higher Education (IIHE), is one of the oldest institutions offering foreign internal degrees in Sri Lanka and the only validated centre of the University of Wales in the country offering the University of Wales Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs.

University of Wales is the second largest federal university in UK awarding 14,000 initial degrees and about 3,000 higher degrees annually, also making it the second largest degree-awarding body in Great Britain. Prince Charles; The Prince of Wales is the Chancellor of this university. Students of Imperial Institute of Higher Education can obtain a University of Wales' internal degrees here in Sri Lanka with substantial savings in costs.

The Imperial Institute of Higher Education is committed to providing education, which is relevant to students' careers, needs and the needs of the country to support the development process.

On a regular basis, curricular, teaching methods, modes and schemes are modified or added to, in order to accommodate changing socio-economic conditions and pattern of lifestyles. All courses are continually updated in response to the needs of employers and perceptions of students.

The celebrated and well patronized IIHE MBA programme aims to provide a postgraduate management qualification to managers moving from functional levels to the strategic levels.

This qualification is also for those technocrats who wish to transform themselves from managing technology to general management.

It thus attempts to respond to a need in the vitally important area of management, for men and women aspiring to be top managers in Sri Lanka and abroad by supporting the realization of their full potential.

Dr. Thilak Weerakoon C.E.O/Academic Director Imperial Institute of Higher Education said "A student who registers with us is registered automatically as an internal student of the University of Wales.

We are only geographically separated but offering the same degrees. All validated institutes are subjected to rigorous quality assurance to ensure that it conforms to the teaching and learning standards in the U.K. as required by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) of U.K. A panel consisting of representatives of Wales and External Examiners from outside Wales visit the institute twice a year to ensure that students at IIHE receive the same quality education as received by their counterparts in the U.K.

A significant milestone of IIHE MBA was a Sri Lankan MBA student Thusitha Ranasinghe winning an international competition organized by the BBC beating 840 contestants from 240 countries around the world. Commenting on this achievement Dr. Weerakoon said "We are very pleased about Thusitha's achievement and this is exactly what we are initiating through IIHE MBA programs - development of global entrepreneurs and business managers."