Full-time study of economics in Košice started at the branch office in Košice on 01/09/1969. At the time there were two departments: Department of Automatic Management Systems and Department of National Economy. Later the Department of ASR was canceled and four new departments were set up. One of them was the Department of Business Science. It was later renamed the Department of Business Administration and on 01/02/1997 to the Department of Management .
Important people in the dawn of this department were mostly prof. Ing. John Korčmároš, CSc., prof. Ing. Ľudovít Mesároš, CSc., prof. Ing. Štefan Čarnický, PhD., assoc. Ing. Štefan Vružek, CSc. and assoc. prof. Ing. Milan Polončák, CSc.
Head of the Department from 1997 until now:
| 1997 - 2000 | doc. Ing. Alena DAŇKOVÁ, CSc. |
| 2000 - 2001 | prof. Ing. Štefan ČARNICKÝ, PhD. |
| 2001 - 2007 | doc. Ing. Anna ČEPELOVÁ, PhD. |
| 2007 - 2012 | doc. PhDr. Mgr. Alena BAŠISTOVÁ, PhD. |
| 2012 - 2015 | prof. h. c. prof. Ing. Milan MAJERNÍK, PhD. |
| 2015 - present | prof. Ing. Bohuslava MIHALČOVÁ, PhD. & PhD., EUR ING |
