The Department of Management Studies of Kannur University was established in the year 2000 with a motive of molding up prospective managers with professional advancement. With the mission to provide academic nourishment and nurture excellence to bring out dynamic executives, this Department has emerged as a major managerial hub. With the sturdy edifice and core ethical values put to force, the Department has persistently been successful in pursuing its aim of teaching, training, research and consultancy. The Department of Management Studies provides a two year MBA program spread over four semesters with electives in six streams: Finance, Human Resource, Marketing, Production and Operations Management, Small Business Management and Systems. A student can opt for any specialization of his/her choice. A distinctive feature of the course is the choice based credit and semester system which thereby provides ample scope to the faculty and students to incorporate the emerging trends and practices in the industry as part of the curriculum. The pedagogy includes organizational training (at the end of 2nd semester), lectures, seminars, case studies, summer projects (at the beginning of 4th semester).