Transport and Logistics Business

Programme overview

Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences and Engineering
State code: 6531LX003
Study field: Business and Public Management
Type of the study programme: higher education undergraduate studies
Mode of studies (duration in years): full-time (3)
Volume of the study programme in credits: 180
Awarded degree: Professional Bachelor of Business Management
Application deadline:1 August
Start date: 3^rd week of September
Study duration full time: 3 years
Tuition fee: 2700 Eur

Aim of the study programme

To train qualified specialists – Professional Bachelors of Business Management – who have the newest and most relevant knowledge of Business and Management science, are able to perform independently complicated work that requires personal responsibility in planning, organizing, managing and controlling the processes of the company’s transport and logistics activities, or the performance of its division; to communicate properly in groups or individually with partners while striving for the set goals, creating a positive communication environment, developing professional and personal competency, entrepreneurship, and creating value-added of performance.

Outcomes of the study programme

Know and understand basic theories of management, economics, logistics and other sciences, and concepts explaining the company’s social-economic phenomena and environment related to the peculiarities of the transport and logistics business.
Apply legislative acts defining the company performance and fundamental knowledge, or business models to determine and solve important problems of transport and logistics companies.
Analyse complex problems of transport and logistics activities, apply innovative methods of data and information collection, processing and assessment for analysis of the environment, opportunities and changes of national and international business, preparation of grounded proposals and making decisions.
Plan, organize, manage and control processes of transport and logistics, and related information in choosing the decisions of the newest technologies, management and marketing.
Perform local and international load carriages, logistics customer service, an organization of warehouse activities, inventory management and freight forwarding evaluate them by economic and financial aspects thus ensuring reliable and responsible performance.
Create and develop the performance of a transport and logistics business company or its division, analyse business opportunities, company development trends, efficiency and high quality of performance.
Combine personal and company interests performing functions of professional activities in local, international and intercultural environment; communicate and collaborate in native and foreign languages, work in a team, keep to principles of professional ethics and moral regulations.
Learn independently in the area of professional activity, understand the moral responsibility for the impact of the activity and its results on the society, maintain the company’s values ensuring personal and corporate image.

Career opportunities

Graduates can work in large, medium and small transport, logistic companies, in production and trade, warehouse and terminal, road, railway, sea, air transport companies (in supply and marketing divisions), in companies providing transport forwarding services.

After graduating from the Transport and Logistics Business Study Programme graduates can continue studies in Lithuanian and foreign higher education institutions implementing 2^nd cycle study programmes.

Degree granting requirements

Graduate’s knowledge, skills and abilities indicated in the description of the study programme are tested and assessed in public defence of a graduation thesis. A graduation thesis is an analytical project based on independent applied research. 9 ECTS are given for preparation and defence of a graduation thesis.

Programme structure

Transport and Logitics Business (180 ECTS)

Full-time study plan

1st year (60 ECTS)

1st semestre (30 ECTS)

General Courses
Foreign Language I (English), 6 ECTS
Busines Communication, 3 ECTS
Business Philosophy, 3 ECTS

Compulsory Courses
Mathematics, 6 ECTS
Information Technologies, 6 ECTS
Economic Statistics, 3 ECTS

Practical Training
Professional Cognitive Practical Training, 3 ECTS

2nd semestre (30 ECTS)

General Courses
Foreign Language I (English), 3 ECTS

Compulsory Courses
Micro-, Macroeconomics, 6 ECTS
Management, 6 ECTS
Marketing, 6 ECTS
Business Law, 6 ECTS
Environmental and Human Safety, 3 ECTS

2nd year (60 ECTS)

3rd semestre (30 ECTS)

Compulsory Courses
Financial Accounting, 6 ECTS
Company Economics, 6 ECTS
Fundamentals of Business, 3 ECTS
Analysis of Corporate Activities (course project in writing), 3 ECTS

Optional Courses
Foreign Language II (English, Russian, French), 3 ECTS
Methodology of Applied Research / Market Research (course project in writing), 3 ECTS

Practical Training
Business Practical Training, 6 ECTS

4th semestre (30 ECTS)

Compulsory Courses
International Logistics, 6 ECTS
Transport System (course project in writing), 6 ECTS
Legal Regulations of Transport Activities

Optional Courses
Foreign Language II (English, Russian, French), 3 ECTS

Alternative Courses*, 3 ECTS

Practical Training
Professional Practical Training I, 6 ECTS

3rd year (60 ECTS)

5th semestre (30 ECTS)

Compulsory Courses
Transport Logistics, 6 ECTS
Total Quality Management in Transport Logistics, 6 ECTS
Planning Business of a Transport and Logistics Company (course project in writing), 3 ECTS
Logistics Freight Forwarding Services, 3 ECTS
Warehousing and Inventory Management, 6 ECTS

Practical Training
Professional Practical Training II, 6 ECTS

6th semestre (30 ECTS)

Compulsory Courses
Supply Chain Management, 6 ECTS

Optional Courses
Insurance/Customs Work Technology, 3 ECTS

Alternative Courses*, 3 ECTS

Practical Training
Final Practical Training, 9 ECTS

Gaduation Thesis, 9 ECTS

* – List of Alternative Courses

List of Alternative Courses

Fundamentals of Administration, 3 ECTS
Fundamentals of Accounting, 3 ECTS
Technologies of Sustainable Energy, 3 ECTS
Audit, 3 ECTS
Business Communication, 3 ECTS
Dietetics, 3 ECTS
Databases, 3 ECTS
E-commerce, 3 ECTS
Fundamentals of Ergonomics, 3 ECTS
Financial Markets, 3 ECTS
Technologies of Physical Activity (body building, Pilates, aerobics), 3 ECTS
Internet Technologies, 3 ECTS
Corporate Financial Responsibility, 3 ECTS
Career Management, 3 ECTS
Construction and Exploitation Materials, 3 ECTS
Technology of Customs Work, 3 ECTS
Basics of Mechatronics, 3 ECTS
Multimedia and Internet, 3 ECTS
Operation Systems, 3 ECTS
Service Marketing, 3 ECTS
Nursing at Home (Integral Nursing), 3 ECTS
Economics of Social Security, 3 ECTS
Social Marketing, 3 ECTS
Sports and Leisure Games, 3 ECTS
Basics of Healthy Nutrition, 3 ECTS
Methodology of Applied Research, 3 ECTS
International Logistics, 3 ECTS
3D Animation, 3 ECTS
Consumer Rights Policy and Institutions, 3 ECTS
Web Design, 3 ECTS
Fundamentals of Business, 3 ECTS
Human and Computer Interaction, 3 ECTS

Admission Requirements

Admission documents

Application form (filled in information as required on the application system https://alytauskolegija.lt/apply-now/)
Certificate of education (Secondary education certificate/Undergraduate degree diploma, etc.) with Transcript of Records attached
Certificate of qualifications recognition issued by the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education of Lithuania (if applicable)
Copy of passport

Note: Legalized and notarized English translations are required for all Education documents.

Documents needed after acceptance:

Bank statement about sufficient means of subsistence and the funds for return (subsistence means the amount of 0.5 minimum monthly salary for one month, the amount for return to the country of origin or a foreign country to which you have the right to travel, the amount of funds – 1 minimum monthly salary)
Non conviction/Police Clearance certificate from the countries of residence in the last two years
Health certificate – issued no longer than a month prior the date of application

Registration fee – 100 Eur (non-refundable)

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