Shipping Management – (B.Sc.)

Contents

1st year

• Marketing Management
• The Firm - Introduction Course
• Managerial Accounting
• The Maritime Industry
• Financial Reporting and Analysis
• Statistics
• Organisational Behaviour and Management
• Mathematics

2nd year

• Microeconomics
• Maritime Finance
• Supply Chain Management*
• Elective 1
• Macroeceonomics
• International Maritime Law*
• Intermodal Transportation*
• Elective 2
• ...
• *Updated course descriptions for the academic year 2012/2013 will be published June 2012.

3rd year

• Strategy
• Strategies for Globalisation in the Maritime Sector*
• Elective 3
• Elective 4
• International Logistics*
• Port Operations*
• Bachelor Thesis

Programme structure

The Bachelor of Shipping Management programme is a three-year, 180-ECTS-credit programme. As a general rule, each course has 7.5 credits and covers approximately 36 contact hours over a period of 12 to 14 weeks with lectures, seminars and casework. Class size may vary between 40 and 100. Group work, term paper preparation, and independent study are important elements in all courses. The teaching will have a practical approach with group projects and case studies as an integral part of the programme. At the end of each semester, in December and in May/June, there is an exam period of four to six weeks.

Thesis

All students are to write a thesis in close cooperation with a company in the shipping and offshore industries or a cluster company surrounding these global industries.

Accreditation

EQUIS

BI has had EQUIS accreditation since 1999 and was among the first to obtain this status. Accreditation is given for a maximum period of five years and re-accreditation was bestowed upon BI in 2004/05 and then again in 2010. The requirements that have to be met are raised each time and it is no “walk over” to be reaccredited based on former merits.

AACSB

BI was given membership in AACSB in 2008 and is well underway in its preparations for AACSB accreditation. The process differs from EQUIS in that the school must document that it meets the quality standard before it can enter the final stage of the process. This opens up for a fairly lengthy process that may last up to seven years. BI´s goal is to complete the process in 2013/14.

AMBA

AMBA accredits the institutions portfolio of MBA/DBA programmes (full time/part time). BI has undertaken to restructure and further develop its executive MBA programmes. In line with this development BI considers to enter an application for AMBA accreditation.

RANKING

Ranking differs from accreditation in that the institution is measured against the other participant schools based on a sett of criteria. These criteria are related to characteristics of the alumni, the programme and the institution. BI participates in two of the most renowned rankings for business education, the Financial Times Ranking and the Eduniversals Top Business Schools Worldwide.

Financial Times Ranking

The Financial Times ranking consists of five partial rankings, addressing specific programmes (customised programmes, master of science programmes, executive MBAs etc.), and a final school ranking. The most influential criteria pertain to alumni salary levels and carreer development, two factors that BI at best can influence indirectly. During the last two years, BI has been placed among the 60-65 best schools world wide, a result that we are moderately satisfied with. However, it is BI´s long term goal to climb in these rankings.

Eduniversal Top Business School Worldwide

Eduniversal allows a thousand participants annually. The ranking is based on the individual participants standing among the others. During the two recent years BI has been placed among the top twenty schools in Europe, along with such well renowned schools as London Business School, INSEAD and HEC School of Management.