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Shipping, DMS
Business College Athens BCA
International Programmes
| Application Deadline: | October 3 | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 10,635 | ||
| Location: | Athens / Greece / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 120 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Business College Athens BCA
The DMS Shipping is taught and assessed in English and is designed carefully to support you in your effort to capitalise for shipping positions in business organisations. The course is designed for mature students with a relative professional experience that seek an in-depth education and knowledge development on the fast developing global shipping sector. The degree seeks to prepare you for further academic study/research (e.g. MBA, MA), as well as for the rigours of senior management. It combines a thorough understanding of the theoretical concepts of business along with shipping case studies and practical work.
The courses offered in the programme cover a wide range of the business administration emphasizing in the development of the aspiring and highly ascending manager of tomorrow.
The classes will be taught by business and academic professionals in the Greek market who will guide the learning process with lectures and seminars, along with talks by expert guest speakers with extensive experience on shipping business matters.
Main educational aims of the course
The course is designed to give the postgraduate students a qualitative educational support for their further success and development in their ascending shipping business career.
The DMS in Shipping prepares the participants for the many challenges of global shipping management at a postgraduate level.
The Greek shipping business environment, within the international and furthermore in the European Union rapidly changing business context, is taken into serious consideration at the programmes design and implementation.
There is no doubt that the Greek organisations within the European Union context, seek for business executives with adequate educational support in order to become competitive in their field of action.
As a result the need for postgraduate study becomes a necessity that DMS in Shipping aims to satisfy in the process.
There is a provision for the students who complete successfully the DMS in Shipping and wish to further advance in their studies to be accepted with appropriate standing at a relevant Master’s degree.
The main educational aims of the course are:
* To provide the educational background for the development of core skills and competences for effective and efficient shipping managerial positions within their organisation
* To develop team working abilities and a thorough understanding of team role into effective shipping business administration
* To develop academic skills in order to:
* Communicate appropriately in business speech and writing
* Apply theoretical knowledge to an organizational context
* Develop an understanding and comply with cross-functional shipping topics and cases, as well as managerial strategies and policies
* To develop and sustain students’ motivation and ability to manage their own learning and development as a substantial effort to improve their working opportunities
* To develop critically reflective practitioners
Course learning outcomes
After completing the course, students will be able to:
* Apply models of modern development and build plans to improve their personal effectiveness within their organisation
* Work in groups as part of the every day business environment
* Critically analyse and improve their effectiveness in working with other students in shipping business projects
* Interpret the management practices of a shipping company into theoretical principles and vice versa
* Be able to develop and analyse shipping management plans as tools of managerial effectiveness
* Apply marketing management principles in a modern and highly competitive shipping business environment
* Evaluate whether general management practices are applicable to the shipping sector
* Apply modern theories and practices to shipping organisations
* Understand the role of data analysis and implementation into today’s demanding shipping business environment
* Make effective use of Maritime Accounting to support decision making
* Make effective use of creative thinking and problems solving techniques for shipping business problems
* Critically evaluate the impact of human element performance in the organization’s effectiveness
* Apply strategic actions to the shipping organization’s development
* Analyse the need for sound economic analysis for the shipping organisation’s short and long term in a highly volatile environment
* Sound awareness of international and national legal shipping issues, in order to solve managerial as well as environmental problems
Contents
Course structure
Full Time
* Personal Effectiveness & Team Working
* Shipping Business Management & Marketing
* Economics of Maritime Transport
* Maritime Accounting
* Human Resource Management in Shipping Business
* Shipping Law Aspects
* Strategic Thinking in Shipping
* Dissertation
Part Time
1st Year
* Personal Effectiveness & Team Working
* Shipping Business Management & Marketing
* Human Resource Management in Shipping Business
* Shipping Law Aspects
2nd Year
* Economics of Maritime Transport
* Maritime Accounting
* Strategic Thinking in Shipping
* Dissertation
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
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Register Now!Requirements
Prospective students who wish to apply for our DMS and DMS in Shipping programs should collect the following application material:
1) Application form 2) 2 reference letters (from your professors or employer)
3) A photocopy of your degree certificate plus two years of work experience in a administrative position (in this case the applicant should be no less than 23 years of age). If the applicant does not have a degree certificate, then s/he must have more work experience and be older than 28 years of age.
4) A photocopy of your identity card
5) 5 colour photographs
6) Those who wish to attend our postgraduate courses in English are required to submit one of the following certifications (applicants who have attended a BA program in which the language of instruction was English are exempted from the following requirements):
* IELTS: a score of 6.0 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each part of the test)
* TOEFL iBT: a score of 580 or 237 in the computer based test
* Cambridge Advanced Certificate (CAE): Grade B or above
* Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE): Grade C or above
* A relevant score in the BCA English Language Placement Test
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.0 |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 580 |
| TOEFL Computer-based: | 237 |
Accreditation
Certification from the British Accreditation Council
BCA has been the subject of inspection by the British Accreditation Council(The council responsible for inspecting all UK Universities and their collaborations abroad and answerable to the UK Ministry of Education) for independent post-secondary and higher education .
The Inspectors referenced a stable high level of education benefits in all sectors under evaluation: facilities, administration and staff, student benefits, and teaching and learning quality. They recognized that BCA aims to provide a learning environment that will suit, as much as practically possible the environment of the institutes of Higher Education of the United Kingdom, and in the most important points the Inspectors deemed that this objective has been achieved.
BCA was formally certified and accredited by the British Accreditation Council () as an institute that offers Higher Education in February 2001.
Q.A.A.
BCA, based on the collaborations with the Universities of G. Britain is an educational institute whose quality of studies is certified by the Higher Education Quality Council, which has been re-named as Quality Assurance Agency (Q.A.A.) and is an official instrument of the British Department of Education.
It aims to assure the quality of studies offered by educational institutes that collaborate with British Universities.
RECOGNITION OF DEGREES BY NARIC
NARIC (National Recognition Information Centre for the United Kingdom) is the British DIKATSA. During the Meeting with the subject British University Education in Greece, which took place 30/09/05, we developed relationships with the British DIKATSA (NARIC). After months of communication and discussions a collaboration agreement was finally signed between the BCA and NARIC (). More specifically, the BCA has been in a position since September 2006 to provide the certificate of the British DIKATSA to its graduates interested in acquiring the specific certificate along with their degrees. Furthermore, the certificate from NARIC covers the requirement of par. c of article 50 of the Directive 36 of 2005, which recognises and confers to BCA graduates Professional rights in the United Kingdom which apply to the entire European Union.
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