Section outline
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General
The master's programme in Logistics and Transport challenges your critical thinking and analytical skills and prepares you for a career in the logistics and transport sector, which employs more than 6 million people in the EU. -
Programme title: Transport and Logistics
The awarded qualification: Master of Social Sciences in Transport and Logistics
Faculty: Transport & Management Faculty
Study languages: English
Duration of program: 2.5 years (5 semesters) / 2 years* (4 semesters)
*If the applicant during previous studies has had professional internship of at least 30 ECTS
Programme volume (ECTS): 123 or 93
Requirements for the basic education: Bachelor of Social Sciences in Management Science or Economics, or higher professional education of the second level in Logistics, Transport, Management Science and Economics
Programme Director: Professor, Dr. sc. ing. Irina Yatskiv
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The programme provides an opportunity to learn and systematize knowledge and practical skills for recent graduates and working professionals in such areas as public transport, airlines and airports, shipping and ports, rail freight and passenger transportation, supply chain management, sustainable transport development, etc.
Subject
CP (LV)
ECTS (EU)
Block А compulsory subjects
(essential knowledge and skills).
Research Methodology
2
3
Transport Policy of the EU and LR
2
3
Geography of Transport Systems
2
3
Transport Economics
4
6
Methods of Data Analysis and Business Forecasting
4
6
Logistics Systems and Logistics Chains
4
6
Business Information Systems
4
6
Research Seminar
2
3
Study Project
6
9
Master's Dissertation and its Defence
20
30
Block В – optional subjects
(essential knowledge and skills about future speciality).
Pedagogics and Psychology
2
3
Decision Making Methodology
2
3
Organisation of Transportation
4
6
Risk Management in Supply Chains
4
6
Warehousing Logistics
2
3
Sustainable Transport Interchange
4
6
Strategic Management
4
6
Logistics and Transport Process Modeling
4
6
Block С – free choice subjects.
Subject of Free Choice
4
6
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Students are offered a set of subjects, as a result of mastering which they will acquire the skills to solve complex transport and logistics issues of an interdisciplinary nature. Within the programme future specialists will acquire systemic knowledge and skills in the management and optimization of complex processes, economic analysis, statistical modelling and project evaluation in order to understand and solve problems in the planning, development and management of transport and logistics systems.
- Knowledge of research methods and methodology; about the current situation and directions of development of scientific activities in the field of transport and logistics.
- Knowledge of the organizational foundations of management and entrepreneurship in the field of transport, production and logistics, market laws and means of their regulation.
- Ability to master constantly new methods of scientific research.
- Skills of analysing the issues of organizing passenger transportation, organizing and managing these processes; skills of using modern computer technologies in the implementation of transportation and logistics activities.
- Proficiency in special vocabulary and terminology (including in foreign languages).
- Ability to use skills and abilities in organizing research work and developing new projects.
- The ability for social interaction, self-organization and professional development.
- Ability to apply economic theory and methods of analysis and modelling in the decision-making process in the field of transport and logistics.
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Jurijs Tolujevs, Profesors, Dr. habil. sc. ing.
Aleksandrs Medvedevs, Profesors, Dr.sc.ing. Berdymyrat Ovezmyradov, PhD