Master of Professional Banking (MPB) Program

To cater the burgeoning demand for skilled human resources required to cope up with fourth industrial revolution, the Academic Council and the Syndicate of the University of Dhaka has approved the Master of Professional Banking (MPB) program under the umbrella of the Faculty of Business Studies in 2022. The Department of Banking and Insurance, University of Dhaka is one of the nationally acclaimed and globally recognized departments. Since its origin, the department aims to provide in depth and rigorous professional education to face the global changes and the challenges in the field of financial services. Since its inception in 2004, the Department of Banking and Insurance is trying to cater needs of qualified professionals who intend to build career for jobs in banking & insurance industry and financial institutions of both local and global levels in particular. The job in these fields has become most challenging and dynamic due to prevailing acute competitions across the banks and financial service industries and frequent changes of global economy. In Bangladesh, the banking and insurance industry plays inevitable role in accelerating the economic development by providing financial services to promote trade, commerce and industry. Financial system of any economy requires the most talented and highly skilled professional, having fundamental knowledge on banking and financial service industries to cope up with threats and hindrances of the highly complex and competitive job markets. Therefore, the Department of Banking and Insurance has taken an initiative with its professionally trained and experienced teachers along with real world practitioners to develop professional skills of unskilled and semiskilled professionals working in this vibrant field. Considering the ever increasing demand of skilled professional manpower in this field at present and in foreseeable future, the Department of Banking and Insurance, University of Dhaka offers a course curriculum best suited to the personnel looking for development of professional skills particularly in the field of banking and financial services institution. Moreover, the teaching methods offered with modern tools and equipments with learning friendly academic environment have made the Department a unique institution within and outside the country. The objective of Master of Professional Banking (MPB) program is to produce qualified professional bankers for the national and international markets with advance learning education system. Accordingly, the objectives are to: a) Prepare the participants from a variety of different backgrounds with the range of skills and techniques necessary to provide a solid foundation for their career; b) Promote learners’ perception of the functional areas of business and developing a general perspective of their interrelationship; c) Enhance the ability of the learners to identify business problems and resolving; d) Assist learners in understanding the dynamics of business operations in an increasingly complex global environment and in competently dealing with the management challenges therein; and e) Develop leadership qualities to work effectively fostering critical thinking and enhancing interpersonal communication.