MBA on Global Operations and Analytics (Double MBA Programme with University of Abertay Dundee)

PURPOSE OF TRAINING

The dynamic development of business relations in Bulgaria and the peculiarities of the transition to a Global market economy require the improvement of the currently existing curriculum in the UNWE and especially the ones that must satisfy the business’ needs for a mid- to-higher level management staff. These graduates must possess the necessary contemporary knowledge and skills for managing business structures and subsystems.

The curriculum is in line with the requirements of the curricula of Abertay University – a distinguished partner of UNWE and leader in international MBA training. This accreditation makes it possible to obtain two degrees from UNWE and from AU respectively. For this reason, it is required that applicants speak English.

The Department of Management, which will organize the training from the side of UNWE, has very well-prepared, qualified teaching staff who have extensive international experience and recognition.

Main learning objectives:

• Learning all the necessary fundamental and special knowledge and skills for the successful employment of the graduates at mid-to-higher level of management;
• Preparing graduates as universal problem solvers with enhanced leadership qualities;
• Creating an attitude to study and apply the latest scientific achievements;
• Confirmation of UNWE as a leading training and qualification centre in the field of business administration.

CONTENT OF THE TRAINING

In the first semester, students study disciplines from the compulsory block, which covers more contemporary fundamental management concepts.

In the second semester, facultative and optional subjects are studied. The optional are organized in two tracks, which makes it possible for students to specialise based on their own preferences: track 1 is focused on operations and project management; track 2 is focused on business analytics, data and AI.

In the third semester, compulsory and optional special subjects are studied, focused mainly on preparing the graduating thesis and all research and personal development activities related to it.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES

Graduates of the Master of Business Administration programme will acquire the following knowledge and skills:

• theoretical foundations and principles on which the practice of economic and administrative management is built, including the contemporary state of theory and practice for a globalised market economy;
• the methodological foundations of organizational development and the resulting methods of organizing, designing, preparing, analysing and making decisions and working with people in the organization;
• knowledge and skills for contemporary management technologies and the use of new information and technical means to support the activities of business management;
• specific knowledge and skills in the field of AI, data analytics, global operations management, the implementation of research studies when determining the development goals of business organizations;
• specific knowledge and skills in the field of diagnostics of the globalised business, the disclosure and overcoming of problem situations, and the creation of a favourable social-psychological climate in organizations;
• specific knowledge and skills for solving problems arising in business management as a result of the influence of the environment in which business organizations operate - economic, technological, socio-cultural, ESG, legal, political and others.

Graduates of the Master of Business Administration shall acquire the following competencies:

Independence and responsibility

• Ability to administratively manage complex professional activities, including teams and resources.
• Taking responsibility for making decisions in complex conditions, under the influence of various interacting and difficult to predict factors.
• Creativity and initiative in managerial activity.
• Assessing the need to train others in order to increase team effectiveness.

Learning Competencies

• Consistent assessment of one's own qualifications by assessing the knowledge and skills acquired so far and planning the need to expand and update the professional qualification.
• Communicative and social competences
• Formulation and clear presentation of comprehensible ideas, problems and solutions to specialists and non-specialists.
• Attitude and understanding of issues using methods based on qualitative and quantitative descriptions and evaluations.
• Broad personal World-view and empathic understanding of others.
• Fully communicated in English.

Professional competences

• Collecting, classifying, evaluating and interpreting data from the field of Business Administration is the goal of solving specific tasks.
• Application of acquired knowledge and skills in new or unfamiliar conditions.
• Ability to analyse in a broader or interdisciplinary context.
• Using contemporary strategic approaches.
• Forming and expressing one's own opinion on problems of a social and ethical nature arising in the work process.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES

Graduates of Master of Business Administration shall open the opportunity for successful professional realization as:

• heads of mid-to-higher management levels of organizations;
• functional and line specialists in the management hierarchy of companies;
•  Advisors of the top management in business organizations;
• management specialists and experts in the R & D departments of the organizations;
• consultants and experts in management and organizational development in specialized companies and research organizations.

Graduates of the Master of Business Administration programme have the opportunity to continue their studies in postgraduate levels in all economic, social, and natural sciences.