The history of the Department of Economics and Management began with the establishment of the Detached Educational Workplace of the Higher School of Economics in Bratislava (currently the University of Economics in Bratislava) in Košice. On 1 September 1969, full-time students began their studies at this workplace in Košice. At that time there were two departments within the workplace:
- Department of National Economy,
- Department of Automatic Management System (AMS).
The AMS Department was later abolished, and four new departments were established, including the Department of Business Science. It was later renamed the Department of Business Administration and in 1997 the Department of Management, already within the Faculty of Business Economics with seat in Košice of the University of Economics in Bratislava. In the same year, the Department of National Economy changed its name to the Department of Economics. In September 2022, the Department of Economics and the Department of Management were merged, and the current Department of Economics and Management of the Faculty of Business Economics with seat in Košice of the University of Economics in Bratislava was created.
The head of the Department of Economics and Management is Prof. Dipl. Ing. Bohuslava MIHALČOVÁ, PhD. & PhD., EUR ING.
From 1997 to 2022, the Department of Economics was headed by:
| 1997- 1999 | Assoc. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Mária FARKAŠOVSKÁ, CSc. |
| 1999 - 2000 | Dipl. Ing. Vladimír GAZDA, PhD. |
| 2000 - 2003 | Assoc. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Alena DAŇKOVÁ, CSc. |
| 2003 - 2007 | Assoc. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Eva KAFKOVÁ, PhD. |
| 2007 - 2015 | Dipl. Ing. Rozália PÉTROVÁ, CSc. |
| 2015 - 2016 | Assoc. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Michal STRIČÍK, PhD. |
| 2016 - 2019 | Dipl. Ing. Michaela BRUOTHOVÁ, PhD. |
| 2019 - 2022 | Prof. Dipl. Ing. Michal PRUŽINSKÝ, CSc. |
From 1997 to 2022, the Department of Management was headed by:
| 1997 - 2000 | Assoc. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Alena DAŇKOVÁ, CSc. |
| 2000 - 2001 | Prof. Dipl. Ing. Štefan ČARNICKÝ, PhD. |
| 2001 - 2007 | Assoc. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Anna ČEPELOVÁ, PhD. |
| 2007 - 2012 | Assoc. Prof. PhDr. Mgr. Alena BAŠISTOVÁ, PhD. |
| 2012 - 2015 | Prof. h. c. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Milan MAJERNÍK, PhD. |
| 2015 - 2022 | Prof. Dipl. Ing. Bohuslava MIHALČOVÁ, PhD. & PhD., EUR ING |
