Maritime Department

Maritime and Shipping Management (BSc)

Key Feature
Code                              MB200
Modules                       34
Duration                      3 years

Registration               Any time

Study Mode                 Fully Online

Credits                          180

Tuition Fees                €5,500/yr

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Overview
The Bachelor (BSc) in Maritime and Shipping Management has been designed in order to provide the necessary knowledge to people who are willing to work in shipping industry or to people who work in maritime sector and willing to improve their shipping and maritime knowledge.

Objectives
The program’s goals is to equip students with a thorough knowledge of aspects of the maritime business to enable them to fulfill the requirements to enter within the maritime world and its associated industries. To achieve this purpose, the program offers its students a unique blend of professional and academic courses. Students after this program will become rapidly adaptive to the needs of employers and to respond appropriately and imaginatively to emerging issues in a dynamic industry.

Learning Outcomes
This course will equip the students with a strong background in the standard core curriculum of business administration subjects. Also, it will provide an innovative, “hands-on” approach to instruction directed by dedicated faculty composed of experts in their fields and to provide a good grounding for variety of careers in range of management functions.

At the end of this program the students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in the field of shipping and maritime management, structure and operation; to describe the functions of shipping companies, to understand the role of international organizations and Associations, to identify and describe the major issues in the port management, handling of cargoes and documentation involved. At the end of this program the student will be comfortable with the main Maritime Terminology. Also, they will know the standard form contracts, the shipping documents and the Key International Conventions of the IMO, they will develop their capacity for independent learning and continuing professional development as well as they learn scientific writing skills.

Year 1 - Modules
• Shipping Fundamentals
• Applied Operations Report
• Maritime Law I
• Applied Contract Study
• Marine Environmental Science and Resource Management
• Sustainability Case Analysis
• Chartering I
• Field Project I
• Maritime Governance, Management and Environmental Compliance
• Applied Industry Project
Year 2 - Modules
• Chartering II and Maritime Law II
• Business Decision Analysis
• Maritime Arbitration and Environment
• Compliance Case Study
• Global Maritime Governance and Trade
• International Policy Analysis
• Marine Insurance
• Field Project II
• Emerging Trends and Research in Maritime Studies
• Independent Investigation
Year 3 - Modules
• Law of the Sea
• Jurisdictional Case Analysis
• Origins of Maritime Trade and Seafaring
• Commerce and Global Exchange
• Maritime Economics and Port Management
• Transport and Trade Analysis
• Contemporary Issues in Shipping
• Capstone Project

Entry Requirements

High School diploma.

English language: GCSE English Language grade 4/C – IB grade 4 Higher Level. If your first language is not English, you will need an IELTS of 6.0 overall, with 5.5 in each component.

Basic Information Technology skills.

Textbooks

Efficient way of study 

Every video-lecture is supported by
a text-book which consists of the
speech-text and the Power Point presentation

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TELEMATIC

Worldwide telematic study. No need to attend physically in the class. You watch the lectures in video form, any time you would like and many times as you need. The speech of every video lecture is written in text form, by including the figures and the highlights of the lecture. You interact with the lecturers and tutors in electronic form.

Watch Videolectures

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Assignment & Project

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Final viva (live video)

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Get your Degree awarded

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Career - Maritime jobs explained

Academic staff consisting of professionals with a significant career at sea and generally in the shipping industry, being in collaboration with special academic personnel highly expert in business and the international maritime affairs. Below are the maritime jobs, that our courses prepare you.

WORK IN EXECUTIVE MARITIME POSITIONS

Our students, regardless their professional origin and their academic level, acquire the necessary knowledge which gives them the opportunity to get an outstanding job position in shipping and rise to the highest levels of the maritime industry.  

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