Official Master's Degree in Logistics and International Trade
Barcelona, Spain
DURATION
10 Months
LANGUAGES
English, Spanish
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2024
TUITION FEES
EUR 7,335
STUDY FORMAT
Blended
Introduction
Why study at UAO CEU?
Professionalization
The university master's degree in Logistics and International Trade provides great help both academically and professionally, with the aim of achieving the necessary knowledge for the internationalization of the company, based on import-export activities and logistics and transport operations, which allow these to materialize by applying rational and scientific criteria in decision making.
As a specialization in the field of business management, the master's degree is oriented towards international trade and business, as well as logistics and transport operations derived from international trade, given the importance of this market and the requirement to obtain a global vision of the movement of material and information flows in imports and exports.
Employability
100% of our students find employment upon completion of their studies (AQU 2020 job placement survey).
Complementary training
- European Port Experience: advanced study program in knowledge of port management and business.
- Course IATA DGR Cat. 3: The course is taught within the framework of the master's program and addresses the regulations for the transport of dangerous goods by air.
- The master's degree also includes approximately ten group visits to companies and institutions in order to enable students to acquire a practical vision of the various modules that make up the training program.
European Port Experience
The European Port Experience is an advanced study program in knowledge of port management and business. It consists of a four-day study trip to the ports of Rotterdam (9th port in the world and 1st in Europe in operations) and Hamburg (1st port in Germany) for advanced training by specialist managers of the sector. The program is completed with the subsequent visit to the port of Barcelona (1st port in the Mediterranean in tourism business). The program is developed through classes in the port facilities themselves and includes a visit to them and all transfer and accommodation operations for the students.
The academic plan of the program addresses the following contents:
- Maritime Economics
- Ship & Port Automation
- Integration of Technologies & Systems
- Data & Connectivity: RFIT, IoT and Containerization
- Big Data, Cybersecurity, Movement of Goods & People
- Industry 4.0
The European Port Experience is an academic activity of the university master's degree, accredited in turn by means of a diploma of its own specialization degree.
Training program in Transformative Competencies
The training program, focused specifically on the development of leadership competence, and through a combination of practical exercises, self-assessments, and feedback among UAO CEU postgraduate students, to develop a broad vision of their own leadership style.
Professional development
Internships in top-level companies in the field of logistics. National and international job boards with more than 2,300 associated companies with internship offers in more than 20 countries.
Faculty
The teaching staff is made up of experts with extensive professional experience in the areas of logistics, transportation, and international business, with a global and current vision of business reality.
International character
Our students acquire the linguistic and cultural knowledge necessary to work anywhere in the world.
Language
This Master's is taught in both English and Spanish (to choose).
Aids
This master's program meets the requirements to be subsidized through the Tripartite Foundation.
Employability
The average job placement rate is 95% in CEU postgraduate studies.
Information resources
The Library Service is conceived as a unit to support study and research with the priority objective of responding to educational and scientific demands. It has long opening hours, even on weekends, with the best IT equipment.
In addition, the UAO CEU makes available to the university community a digital repository that contains open-access publications derived from the teaching, research, and institutional activity of the teaching staff and the students and alumni of the University.
Ideal Students
Graduates in Business Administration and Management, Economics, Marketing and Commercial Management, Marketing and Market Research, and Business Sciences. Engineers in different branches. Graduates in Transportation Sciences and Logistics.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Aid for Postgraduate Studies
The UAO CEU annually offers the Study Aid Program to students of master's, postgraduate, and specialization courses (PAEM), based on discounts on the registration fee.
This program, as its name indicates, helps to face the cost of master's, postgraduate, and specialization courses. The awards range between 10% and 50% of the total amount of the program and are awarded based on the student's academic record, his or her connection with the UAO CEU, and his or her family situation.
The deadline to submit these applications will be fifteen calendar days before the start of each program.
PAEM aid cannot be accumulated with each other, nor can it be applied to the CEU management fee.
Curriculum
Course
- 12221 Law and Financial Instruments in International Trade (5 ECTS)
- 12223 Logistics Management and Management (5 ECTS)
- 12216 The Context of the Logistics Chain (5 ECTS)
- 12220 The Context of International Trade and Business (5 ECTS)
- 12222 Commercial Management and Marketing in International Sales. E-commerce (5 ECTS)
- 12219 Reverse Logistics, Green Logistics and Environment (5 ECTS)
- 12217 Logistics and Operations Planning (5 ECTS)
- 12218 Transport Modalities and Infrastructures (5 ECTS)
- 12224 External Practices (10 ECTS)
- 12225 Master's Thesis (10 ECTS)
Program Outcome
The main objective of the university master's degree in Logistics and International Trade is to train expert professionals in logistics, transport, and international trade so that they are capable of leading the management of supply chains and their logistics, optimizing the use of transport while minimizing lead times. , costs and their environmental impact, and lead the internationalization projects of their organizations.
The following specific learning objectives are derived from this general objective:
- Identify international supply chains at a global, continental, and regional level.
- Train to perform the control, management, and direction function of a logistics chain and its integrated processes and subprocesses, as well as associated transportation operations.
- Train in the negotiation and contracting processes of transportation and logistics optimally, meeting the expected profitability criteria.
- Know the technical and operational aspects of each of the modes of transport and their operators at the global, continental, regional, and local levels.
- Know the functionality and characteristics of the support infrastructures for transport and logistics, as well as the main logistics-port nodes.
- Know and understand the new international markets and the merchandise flows they generate, as well as detect business opportunities related to any field of business activity.
- Train for the design, development, and implementation of business internationalization projects.
Analyze country risk and security in supply chains for the establishment of new international businesses. - Know all the figures involved in international traffic, import and export operations, and the documentation that accompanies and certifies each process.
- Apply corporate social responsibility in all activities, both own and those of suppliers and clients.
- For this reason, the subjects that make up the university master's degree in Logistics and International Trade respond to the need for participants to acquire integrated and systematized training in the techniques to be used in the field of logistics.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
The student who obtains the official university master's degree in Logistics and International Trade from the Abat Oliba CEU University can develop their profession in the following areas:
- Direction and management of international transport operators
- Management of international logistics operator ( supply chain management )
- Direction and management of freight forwarding companies
- International logistics department
- Import-export address
- International expansion manager
- Business Consulting
- Market analyst