Chandaria School of business

 

 

 

The construction of a building to house the School of Business Administration was finished in 2004, and the School was renamed Chandaria School of Business after an endowment of US$1 million by industrialist Manu Chandaria.

 

MANU CHANDARIA

Manilal Premchand Chandaria OBE CBS EBS is a Kenyan businessman of Indian ancestry who was born on March 1, 1929, in Nairobi. He serves on the boards of several important East African corporations in addition to being a senior member of the Comcraft Group of Companies, a billion-dollar conglomerate with operations in over 40 countries.

 He has received numerous accolades in East Africa and abroad for his entrepreneurial efforts, and he is also a well-known humanitarian.  Queen Elizabeth II bestowed the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on Chandaria in 2003. Former President Mwai Kibaki awarded him the Elder of the Burning Spear in December of that year, one of Kenya's highest civilian honors. He's been referred to as '' ONE OF KENYA'S LEADING INDUSTRIALISTS.''

 

 

 

DR. MANU CHANDARIA EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Chandaria attended several schools in Kenya's Nairobi and Mombasa before moving to India to pursue his degree studies. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Jamnagar India University in Bombay in 1949, after which he moved to Oklahoma in the United States. 

He received his bachelor's degree in engineering in 1950 and moved on to the University of Oklahoma for his master's degree in 1951.  He returned to Kenya from here to find a thriving family firm and therefore a platform to use his quick commercial skills to extricate a worldwide corporation from the temporary store that had once been.

 

CURRENT STATE OF THE SCHOOL

Currently these are the programs being offered by the school.

  Masters Programs

  Doctoral Programs

  Online Learning

  Departments

 

 

 

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