Bangladesh Institute of Management (BIM) can be traced back to 1961 when its precursor, the Management Development Center, East Pakistan, was established. It is the outcome of a tripartite project known as ‘East Pakistan Management Development, Supervisory and Instructor Training Center'. To establish this project, a plan of operation was signed by the then Government of Pakistan, the United Nations and the International Labor Organization in 1960. The project came into being on January 1, 1961 under the administrative control of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Welfare (Labor and Social Welfare Division) of the then Central Government of Pakistan which was subsequently transferred to the Provincial Government of East Pakistan in December 1963.In 1970 the East Pakistan Government Educational and Training Institutions Ordinance, 1961 (East Pakistan Ordinance No. XXVI of 1961) was made applicable for Management Development Center with effect from July 1, 1970 thereby providing the center with autonomous status. In 1966 apart from offering short term, subject specific training programs, a specialized, a year-long Postgraduate Diploma in Personnel Management was introduced by the Center. After the independence of the country in 1971, the institute was vested with the responsibility of building up human resources of the newly independent country. The number of participants per course was dwindling as were the number of courses. Against this backdrop, the BMDC took a far-reaching strategic decision to introduce a number of year long, post-graduate diploma courses. Three such academic programs — Post-Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management, Post-Graduate Diploma in Financial Management, Post-Graduate Diploma in Computer Science were introduced.