The philosophy of this degree programme is to provide specialized, distinctive, and qualitative education to students, so as to enable them to utilize the knowledge acquired to solve corporate, national, and international problems. It also aimed at making students cope with the demand of modern-day business as a profession.

1. To prepare the student to perform the management functions in a globalized business world
2. To transform the orientation and thinking of the student in line with modern management conception
3. To provide for the student the conceptual and analytic tools needed for the management conception
4. To arouse the curiosity of the student for innovative or creative management
5. To facilitate the education and training of managers at the undergraduate and postgraduate experience and professional levels.
6. To help produce teaching materials and literature more appropriate to the Nigerian environment through research and cross-fertilization of ideas in the classroom.