Logistics Management (B.A.)
B.A. Study Programme Logistics Management
The dual study programme Logistics Management at the HSBA offers practically oriented courses of study in Business Administration focusing on the specific demands of the fast growing branch of logistics. By alternating the sites of learning between the university and the company they are currently working in, students have the opportunity to apply their theoretically gained knowledge directly and to reflect upon the results. On graduation, students have already become seasoned young executives and can look forward to aboveaverage career opportunities.In accordance with its dual character, the programme is marked by regularly alternating practical and theoretical phases: the practical part comprising 32 weeks annually, the theoretical part consisting of up to three phases a year with 20 weeks altogether. The three-year course totals some 1,700 hours of tuition.
The dual degree programme Logistics Management conveys broad-based skills in Business Administration, complemented by Logistic Management issues. In addition to the acquisition of discipline-specific knowledge, methodological and social competencies are conveyed through participation in various seminars and special projects.
The focus on logistics covers all three years of the course, e.g. in seminars such as Strategic Logistics Management, Logistics Systems, Operative Logistics Management, Productions Logistics or Supply Chain Management. Thus, it provides the optimum preconditions for the graduates to become already well-proven professionals in regard to logistics issues. This provides access to a wide variety of working opportunities in service companies within the logistics sector, as well as in production and trade.
Each year's student intake is allocated a study group comprising usually 30 participants. Language courses and communication seminars are held in groups of not more than 16 students, thus ensuring personal proximity to the teaching staff and close exchange between the staff and the students. This enables classes to resemble seminars more than lectures, a factor central to the philosophy of the HSBA.
In addition to encouraging students to be highly motivated, it also means that tuition is more effective than at most other universities that adopt more conventional approaches.
Plan of Study Logistics Management
Dual studies - the company
The in-house part of the trainingtakes place in the partner company with which the student concludes a contract. Each company uses its discretion by taking its respective size, line of business and performance process into account when planning how to communicate not only general principles but also specialist knowledge. The companies undertake to carry out the practical part with regard to the relevant course contents. In doing so, they orient their training to the module descriptions provided by the HSBA.
The practical part is conducted in the company’s different functional areas. Knowledge, skills and abilities
are communicated through the provision of comprehensive information via the functional areas concerned.
participating in decision-making processes, the students are gradually introduced to a full range of management responsibilities.
The degree
The Bachelor of Arts is the final degree of the dual B.A. programme Logistics Management at the HSBA. It is internationally recognised and equivalent to the degrees of state universities in Germany, and in European and non-European countries. Due to its unique, highly practical orientation, the HSBA Bachelor distinguishes itself from other Bachelor degrees.
Additional qualifications
can be acquired. For example, a vocational education examination can be taken before the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce in a profession corresponding to the student’s company or, where necessary, certificates of studies completed at partner universities of the HSBA abroad can be acquired.
The financing
Tuition fees currently amount to 535 Euro per month. It is intended that the students contribute at least u 150 per month to these fees. However, both company and student can agree upon a different level of contribution. During the course of study, students receive compensation from their companies which is usually in line with an apprentice’s compensation valid for the respective companies. They are thus already financially independent to a great extent at this time.
Prospects
With the Bachelor of Arts degree, the graduates of the HSBA are optimally qualified for a professional
career in an organisation. With the relevant experience, they are also able to assume management
tasks in a company. Furthermore, the HSBA offers a part-time M.A. and a part-time MBA course. However, graduates of the HSBA can also study for a Master’s degree at all private and state universities Germany and abroad.
Advantages for students
The students of the HSBA have a great number of advantages compared with students at other universities:
Optimum learning conditions
Learning must be fun, so students study in the bright, modern and friendly surroundings of the Handelskammer City Campus; not far from the hub of business life but opposite the Hamburg Stock Exchange and near the City Hall, the banks and the many trading and service companies in the city of Hamburg, the gateway to the world.
Practically minded teaching staff
Scientific orientation and hands-on teaching are a challenging combination. The professors and lecturers at the HSBA have professional experience in companies, and are highly qualified specialists and economists. In addition, our staff comprises lawyers and trainers from partner companies.
Student participation
Due to the HSBA’s size and character as a private university of the Hamburg business community, our students are able to actively influence their studies. In addition, they have the opportunity of developing a variety of projects on their own initiative, supported by the university’s executive board.
As a rule, the candidate must possess a higher education entrance qualification which has to be recognized in Hamburg. Applicants with an advanced technical college entrance qualification can be admitted in principle. However, each individual case requires to be inspected by the HSBA. If necessary, the candidate is required to apply at the board for education and vocational training for granting of an advanced technical college entrance qualification.
In addition, candidates must demonstrate good knowledge of mathematics, German and English. Proof can be provided by achievement of an average score of 10.0 points; two senior high-school certificates are required for this. If a student has taken a subject as a Special Subject, or a course with higher requirements, a bonus of 1.0 points is added to the calculated average score.
If the required score was not achieved in one of the subjects, HSBA offers an opportunity to take admission examinations in English, Mathematics and German. An examination can be re-taken once in each of these three subjects if necessary.
Proof of the required knowledge of English can alternatively be provided by: TOEFL internet-based, scoring at least 90 points; or International English Testing Service (IELTS) “academic”, scoring an average of at least 6.5 points; or a Cambridge Proficiency Exam, getting Grade A or B. HSBA also holds its own English admission test at TOEFL level.
In addition, a candidate has to sign a study contract with a company
Personal study requirements are:
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Initiative
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Ability to work in teams
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Willingness to perform
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Resilience
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Perseverance
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Ability to give and take criticism
Do you fulfil our requirements? Then the HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration is the right address for the beginning of your career!
The way to the HSBA
Applications should be sent directly to the participating companies. A list of available study places can be found on our website.
However, applicants can also suggest a company on their own initiative, one which has not yet participated in the programme but is willing to conclude a contract with them. The respective contract forms are available on our download webpage.
Further information on the dual B.A. study programme Logistics Management:
HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration
Alter Wall 38
D-20457 Hamburg
Telephone ++49(0)40-36138-711/-712
E-mail: info@hsba.de
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