The Cyprus Institute of Marketing (CIM) was established in 1978 in Nicosia and since 1984 also in Limassol, in order to promote the Marketing Science and to fill a gap in the Cyprus Educational System. When in 1978 Theo Hadjiyannis, the founder and Director-General decided with a number of Cypriot businessmen to establish Business School with a focus on marketing, the notion of Marketing hardly existed. The CIM in the past 32 years has developed to be a European centre for the development of business sciences and has provided the opportunity to more than 5,000 Cypriots and foreigners to acquire prestigious academic and professional qualifications.

 CIM offers now B.Sc. Degrees (3 years) at its campuses in Nicosia – Limassol in the following fields:

1. Business Administration
2. Insurance
3. Banking
4. Tourism Management
5. Financial and Computers Studies
6. European Studies
7. Shipping

 CIM also offers a Postgraduate Diploma in Corporate Management & Strategic Planning and a Master in Business Administration (MBA).

Another special characteristic of CIM is that it has been a pioneer in learning for adults and in-career people. CIM has always been offering exclusively evening classes for in-career individuals who did not have the chance to study abroad but have the will to learn and achieve personal development. It has thus been rightly characterised as a ‘Second-Chance Institution’ and its motto is that ‘Learning never ends’. As such it has represented Cyprus in various EU projects on Life Long Learning. CIM is unique in that it combines theory and practice, giving its students the opportunity to have the best prospects for employment.