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Master’s Degree in "Shipping, Trade and Transport". Department of Shipping, Trade and Transport. Faculty of Business. University of the Aegean.

Description

Knowledge: The graduates know the facts, the principles, the theories, and the practices related to the interdisciplinary sectors of Shipping, Transports, and International Commerce. The Master's Degree in Shipping, Trade, and Transport (STT) aims to transmit theoretical and applied knowledge and knowhow, methodologies and operating tools, as well as to the production and dissemination of research results and to the assimilation of information through learning.
Skills: The STT provides interdisciplinary assets for the creation of specialized scientists, capable for high calibre careers in management, organization, design of operations and services with regard to shipping, transports and commerce, in the public and private sector. It develops the ability to apply knowledge and use expertise to complete tasks and solve problems.
Competences: Graduates are capable of coping with the modern challenges of science and the composite needs of the wider grid of the shipping industry and transport systems.
Learning outcomes: Acquisition of theoretical and applied knowledge and knowhow, methodologies and operating tools as assets for the creation of specialized scientists, capable for high calibre careers in management, organization, design of operations and services with regard to shipping, transports and commerce, in the public and private sector.

Further Information

The Master's Degree in Shipping, Trade, and Transport (STT) aims to transmit theoretical and applied knowledge and knowhow, methodologies and operating tools, as well as to the production and dissemination of research results in the interdisciplinary fields of shipping, transport, and trade. The end objective is the creation of quality scientists and executives, capable of coping with the modern challenges of science and the composite needs of the wider grid of the shipping industry and transport systems.

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 hold a Bachelor Degree (level 6). The selection of graduate students is mainly based on the following criteria: the overall grade of the Bachelor Degree, the grades in undergraduate courses that are relevant with the subjects of the Master’s program, the performance in thesis, where is foreseen at the undergraduate level and any research activity of the candidate. The detailed application of the above mentioned criteria, the definition of additional criteria or the conducting of examinations and interviews, the results of which are taken into account in the selection, are determined by decision of the relevant Department.
Holders of such qualifications gain access to study programmes at the same level or at level 8.

Ways To Aquire

Qualifications of this type are acquired via formal education.

Awarding Body

University of the Aegean

Qualification Type

MASTER’S DEGREE (METAPTYCHIAKO DIPLOMA EIDIKEFSIS)

Name

Higher education

Purpose

Basic

Duration

2 years

Thematic Areas

Accounting and taxation
Finance, banking and insurance
Management and administration
Marketing and advertising