Dishant Pandya knew as a young boy growing up in India that he had a nose for business. Specifically, his father’s printer cartridge supply business.
“I would always be sticking my nose in his business,” Pandya recalls with a laugh. “Always butting in and asking, ‘What’s going on with this, what’s going on with that?”
Pandya’s early interest in business has led to a career teaching finance and economics, including his current position as an associate professor in the College of Business.
Pandya directs the college’s graduate and undergraduate degree programs in financial planning, as well as the financial counseling concentration as part of the bachelor’s degrees in business administration and finance. Both programs and the concentration will first be offered in fall 2024.
Pandya started teaching full time in 2014 after earning his doctorate degree in finance. He’s earned several finance and business degrees, he never felt the lure of the private sector. He knew his career path.
“I love teaching and I always have,” he said. “I was a full-time tutor in college, and I knew then that this is what I wanted to do.”
Prior to joining Bellevue University in June 2023, Pandya taught at a college in Kentucky for nine years. There, he developed degree programs in financial planning and formed a teaching philosophy that makes Bellevue University a perfect fit.
“The way I teach my classes is that we focus more on solving problems,” Pandya said. “I don’t want you to give me a 15-page term paper that you’re never going to use in your career. I want more real-life application.”