Degree Programme in Service Business and Project Management: 16YPR

Description

Degree awarded: Master of Business Administration
Scope: 90 cr

SKILLS PROVIDED
The aim of the degree programme is to train customer-oriented service business developers who have the competence of a project manager. The students improve their skills in the service business concepts and processes and their planning, while also developing their skills in management, project work and research based development. Already during their education and especially after graduation students are service business experts, change agents and project experts in their organisations. They act as active service business researchers, planners, developers, executors and assessors in the work life.

VALUE BASIS FOR EDUCATION
A responsible organisation takes a long view in managing and developing their actions exceeding the ecological, social and financial minimum requirements set by legislation. The ecological sustainability includes different pedagogical solutions and digital devices to optimize the need to travel, to use paper, etc. The social and ethical sustainability includes transparency, attractiveness, equality, and respect for the privacy of of the participating actors with different backgrounds and perspectives. From the perspective of economic sustainability and competitiveness service business development is one of the present and the future cornerstones of society.

WORKING LIFE PLACEMENT
Management and middle management, challenging expert tasks.

STRUCTURE OF STUDIES
Advanced professional studies 50 cr
Free-choice studies 10 cr
Master’s Thesis 30 cr
Total 90 cr

KEY THEMES OF EDUCATION
Service business
Project management
Development skills

TEACHING METHODS
The tuition uses different teaching methods. The classroom education, for most part, takes place on Thursday evenings (16.30-20.00) and on Fridays (8.30-16.00), roughly every other week during the autumn and spring terms.
Collaborative knowledge construction and sharing are an essential part of learning and the students are expected to participate in the classroom teaching. The attendance requirements for each course are determined by the teachers of the course.
The degree programme education is mostly carried out in Finnish.

Curriculum development and working life cooperation

The programme is developed based on student- and teacher feedback and taking into consideration work life requirements. Students themselves constitute a significant part of the work life expertise.
Master's theses are work life assignments.

Further information

The programme is intended for people who have completed the degree of Bachelor in Business Administration or another applicable university degree and who have at least three years of working experience in a related field, after having completed the degree. The degree programme is suitable also for people with other Bachelor degrees (for example in Engineering, Media, Hotel and Restaurant Management) whose working experience and/or other studies are in business-related field and who have the required work experience.

For an applicant who has first completed a vocational or higher vocational diploma and then the applicable Bachelor’s degree, the work experience acquired after the completion of the vocational diploma is accepted as the required work experience. The applicants must have at least three years of work experience in the required field also in this case.