ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS SCIENCES

Presentation

The Economic and Business Sciences Bachelor's programme provides students with a comprehensive education in economics, business, and management, preparing them for successful careers in a dynamic and internationally oriented business environment. The programme combines strong theoretical foundations with practical knowledge, enabling students to understand complex economic and business processes, critically analyse organisational challenges, and develop innovative and sustainable solutions.

Students are encouraged to take an active role in shaping their educational pathway by selecting courses that align with their professional interests and career aspirations. This flexible approach allows them to develop specialised knowledge while strengthening analytical thinking, problem-solving, communication, teamwork, and leadership skills.

The programme offers several study fields, including Economics, E-Business, Finance and Banking, Business Management and Organisation, Marketing, Economic and Business Studies, and International Economics and Business. Each study field provides specialised competencies while maintaining a strong interdisciplinary perspective that integrates economics, management, digital technologies, and international business.

Graduates acquire the knowledge and competencies required to work in companies, financial institutions, public administration, consulting firms, international organisations, and other business and public-sector institutions. They are well prepared for analytical, managerial, and decision-making roles, as well as for continuing their education at the master's level.

The programme consists of 180 ECTS credits and is completed over three years of full-time study. It is also available in English, providing an international learning environment and opportunities for cooperation with students and partners from around the world.

Main Objective

The main goals of FEB study programme are set in such a way that the programme: - is comparable with similar programmes in Western Europe in terms of its scope, contents and duration; - is designed as an open and flexible programme, which makes it possible for the students to transfer between the programmes and at the same time provides a large number of elective course options within the programme; - includes the contents that creates a marketable graduate profile as well as graduate employability and mobility on the European labour market; - is closely linked with the needs of a broader society, especially the economy, by taking into consideration its structure and the increasing interaction with the European market as well as the required graduate competences; - provides an adequate and well rounded selection of the required knowledge, which enables the graduates to be successful on the job market and which offers them the motivation and ability to be engaged in lifelong education; - is structured in such a way that the students may create their own development path of knowledge acquisition at the Faculty and, at the same time, take on more responsibility for the acquisition of relevant range of knowledge in economics and business; - enables such course selection which helps the students develop a certain degree of professional competences specialization and, at the same time, provides an adequate width of professional knowledge and consequently better employment opportunities and mobility on the labour market; - gives students the possibility to accumulate the completed study requirements at different higher education institutions and to transfer between study programmes; - simplifies the recognition of knowledge and skills acquired at other higher education institutions, especially within various international student exchange programmes abroad; - and its conceptual framework is based on the requirement for total student workload (in compliance with the Criteria for credit assignment to study programmes according to ECTS); - enables active participation of students in the process of programme formation and encourages active methods of learning and teaching; - guarantees adequate integration of knowledge within the programme into a system of well rounded economic and business knowledge (specialization, integration, modular structure) from the viewpoint of the graduate profile per individual study field by taking into account the interests of students regarding the enrolment to a chosen field of study and the needs on the market.

Competencies

Graduates will, through their course of study, primarily develop the following key general and professional competencies in the area of: - Multifunctional skills, including the ability to identify and assess business opportunities, - Understanding the impact of global, legal, sociocultural, ecological, and ethical forces of the international environment on the operations of companies, organizations, and states, - Planning, developing, leading, and executing professional tasks in international business and marketing, international finance, and relationship management within supply chains, - Proficiency in professional communication and critical thinking, - Ability to learn, respect diversity and multiculturalism, and apply knowledge in practice with an understanding of regional differences, - Capability for qualitative and quantitative assessment and the use of analytical concepts and tools, - Ability to collaborate in interdisciplinary and international teams, - Ethical commitment in business practices, - Skills in research, holistic thinking, decision-making, and action.

Learning Outcomes

Graduates will, through their course of study, primarily develop the following key general and professional competencies in the area of: - Multifunctional skills, including the ability to identify and assess business opportunities, - Understanding the impact of global, legal, sociocultural, ecological, and ethical forces of the international environment on the operations of companies, organizations, and states, - Planning, developing, leading, and executing professional tasks in international business and marketing, international finance, and relationship management within supply chains, - Proficiency in professional communication and critical thinking, - Ability to learn, respect diversity and multiculturalism, and apply knowledge in practice with an understanding of regional differences, - Capability for qualitative and quantitative assessment and the use of analytical concepts and tools, - Ability to collaborate in interdisciplinary and international teams, - Ethical commitment in business practices, - Skills in research, holistic thinking, decision-making, and action.

Courses

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