The Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM) is a semi-autonomous body affiliated to the University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Its objectives are to promote advanced education and professionalism in management in Sri Lanka through the provision of postgraduate instruction, training, research, and development in the various branches of management and administrative studies. Today, it serves the national interests of professional management education and training on a wider scale providing challenging opportunities for learning and skills development to thousands of senior-level managers and administrators. Being the pioneer of advanced management education in Sri Lanka, PIM provides leadership to those who are in the business of innovating and disseminating management know-how as well as to those who are in search of higher learning alternatives. The PIM offers a wide range of programs in the areas of business and public administration. The Master of Business Administration (MBA) is the core degree programme that has already produced more than 300 Chief Executive Officers to the nation. It's a two year program organized into eight academic terms, offering approximately 600 classroom interaction hours and over 60 hours of faculty consultation on research, skills development, directed study and residential workshops. The Master of Public Administration (MPA) program is catered for the knowledge requirements of executive level officers of the public service. The course is offered in the blended-learning mode with the involvement of regional centers such as Jaffna and Trincomalee.