Brief Profile

Blantyre International University (BIU) was established in 2008 to provide high quality university education for this century. This is predicated on its belief that education must be life-long – that education is not a spatial monopoly of something called the school and college; not a time-bound learning experience; there is no such thing as childhood education, adolescent education, youth education, or adult education.

There is just education which is a way of life, a life-long way of life. Every year, every month, everyday, a person will be learning, open to learning and must be given the opportunity to learn in the home, school, university, factory, farm, hospital, office, co-operative, church, trade union, political party, cinema and club, etc. Education must be open.

In this regard, BIU believes in the need for the re-orientation and vitalisation of education with a view to preparing the young for the modern times that we live in, as a result of the following demands:

1) There will be large changes in job categories, with possible fifty per cent of job categories changing in one generation.
2) Skills need to be renewed at the rate of approximately fifty per cent every three to five years.
3) Technology will require increased multiple thinking.

The implication of these demands is that education for the workplace of this century needs to be broadly based. While the importance of academic and vocational capacities is well known, this is not true of the enterprise capability. The enterprise capability includes skills of thinking, planning, communicating, organising, problem solving, monitoring and assessing.

This demands a change in the way learning is achieved. It is also recognised that the most successful worker in the modern changed time and age would be the person who has the most balanced personal development, and who is open to new ideas and opportunities.

Programmes
Undergraduate Programs

Actuarial Science (BASc) Business Administration (BBA) Economics (BEcon) Information Technology (BITec) Accounting and Finance (BAFin) Law (BLaw) Banking and Finance (BBF) Journalism (BJrn) Tourism (BHM) Entrepreneurship (BEntp) Guidance and Counselling (BG &C))

Special Links
Seminars

:: Coming soon.

:: Dates to Be announced

Affiliates
:: Niagra University

Why BIU?

Message from the Chancellor

Dr. Chanthunya
We have grown as an institution since last year, when the Government of Malawi recognised and accredited Blantyre International University and its programmes as a learning institution for purposes of higher education, recruitment and career advancement.

As we enter the year 2011, BIU will strive to provide its students with an outstanding personal experience. With our sights set on becoming a national and regional centre of excellence in the academic and and policy advisory fields, 2011 holds much promise for all of us at BIU.

We are in our fourth year and we are now enrolling students for the January-June Semester intake. Classes will commence in late January, 2012. Registration of students will take place in early January, 2012.

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