I am delighted to be able to welcome you to the Faculty of Management and Law (FOML), Nepal Open University, Nepal.

With the core value of public ownership and accountability, we pursue the three public sector goals in the context of higher education: access, quality and affordability as envisaged in Nepal’s national policies. We aim at catering to the needs for developing KAS of learners: knowledge, attitude, and skills by pursuing the modus operandi of online, distance mode of learning.

We have the privilege of leading Nepal’s online education in Management and Law, as the online mode has increasingly become an important aspect of modern education, offering the benefits of 1. greater access, 2. flexibility, 3. affordability, and 4. technology integration, while also providing 5. opportunities for career advancement and 6. customisation. By virtue of the online teaching-learning mode, we have a distinctive advantage of being able to serve learners (students) in any part of the world with internet connectivity.

Learners/ students can benefit from an array of academic programmes that range from the bachelor’s to the master’s and doctoral degrees at FOML. Our Faculty takes pride in serving the human society with the university’s first PhD programme in Management with a blend of face-to-face and other feasible modes of contact from 2021.

Ensuring a stronger focus on sustainability and needs of the market and society, we have designed our curricula and are effortful to promote innovation in our courses and programmes to meet the gaps in the market and society. We also accord a high priority on cultivating industry and government partnerships at national and international levels to help foster innovation at the Faculty and leverage experiential learning opportunities for our learners/ students.

As a dedicated seat of learning of management and law, we continue to strive for academic excellence, impactful research and teaching and socially contributing outcomes. With a highly diverse student and staff community, we endeavour to deliver and develop competent, socially responsible global citizens.

This is our FOML family, and we look forward to making it yours as well.

Prof. Arhan Sthapit, Ph.D.

Dean, Faculty of Management and Law