Further Information
The programme of studies of the Department of Shipping and Business Services runs for four years. It combines core education over the entire scope of business activities, while at the same time allowing for specialised scientific training on the composite field of Shipping Businesses, Transports and International Exchanges - Trade.
The multi-faceted training offered by the department in a modern, with international character, site, allows the graduate to engage with significant activities relevant to the administration and economics of this environment.
The courses offered are allocated into the following categories:
Core Background Courses (Compulsory), which include the following:
(a) 13 Courses of General Education, related to the organisation, the operation, and the environment of businesses, such as: Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Information Technology, Network, Financial Geography, and Foreign Language (English). Certain courses include laboratories.
(b) 19 courses of Basic Education in Administration, Shipping, and Transports, which deal with the following: Principles of Accounting - Finance, Business Organisation - Administration, Organisation - Administration of Production, Administration of Human Resources, Quantitative Methods, Transport Economics, Shipping Economics - Technology, Marketing, Logistics.
(c) 8 courses aimed to Expand Knowledge on Shipping, Transports and Commerce, taught in the third and fourth year of studies, concerning the Law of the Sea, Maritime Law, the Functional Management of Shipping Businesses, Chartering - Marine Insurances, Protection - Policy of the Environment, Port Economics - Administration, Operational Strategy and Policy, Project Management,
(d) Dissertation
Elective Courses - Courses for Increasing Knowledge. These include the following:
(a) 3 Elective Courses from the groups of the aforementioned courses.
(b) 6 Courses for Increasing Knowledge, selected from groups of courses that refer to three cognitive pillars: Shipping, Transports, and New Technologies and Entrepreneurship.
Relation To Employment
Holders of qualifications that belong to this type may work either as self-employed or in positions of responsibility in companies and organizations in the private or in the public sector.
Transitions
Access to this type of qualification have those who have completed at least the secondary education (level 4).
Holders of such qualifications gain access to study programmes at the same level or at level 7 or 8.
Ways To Aquire
Qualifications of this type are acquired via formal education.