Utenos kolegija | Transport and logistics business

The group of study fields: Business and Public Management
Field of study program: Business
Code of study program: 6531LX074
Type of study program: Undergraduate (college higher education) study programme
Cycle of study program: Professional Bachelor degree programme

Language of study program: Lithuanian, English, Russian
Credits and form of study program: 180 credits. Full-time studies - 3 years, part-time studies - 4 years

Upon completion of Transport and Logistics Business study program, graduates receive Professional Bachelor of Business Management.

The study programme is implemented not only through innovative teaching/learning methods, but simultaneously responding quickly to the changes in the domestic and international transport and logistics markets. The application of new information transport management technologies allows students’ orientation towards the self-employment, based on practical tasks, for which performance problematic and critical thinking is essential. A part of the students’ competences will be acquired by working with an enterprise representative/mentor.

Transport and Logistics Business study programme graduates:

Can work as managers in transport and logistics enterprises and their departments as well as transport service sales specialists.
Can create and manage their own transport, logistics or forwarding enterprises.

Graduates may continue their studies for acquiring Bachelor’s Degree at a university. Having accomplished bridging studies or upon meeting other requirements, set by the accepting higher education institution, they will possess the right to enter the second cycle graduate studies and the third cycle post-graduate studies.

Objective(s) of a study programme:

Prepare a specialist, able to apply characteristic for modern business management technological and information processes of transport and logistics business development in the professional activity; possessing key competences, allowing the adaptability to the changing transport and logistics business environment conditions and labour market requirements as well as to educate wide creative and critical thinking, a positive approach towards the professional and personal development through lifelong learning.

Learning outcomes:

1.1. Is able to describe economic social phenomena, explain the main theories of management and economic sciences and analyse the transport and logistics business system operation mechanism.

1.2. Is aware of the importance of information and modern technologies in the transport and logistics business and changes in the global market, ensuring a long enterprise life period.

2.1. Applies innovative methods of data and information collection, processing and evaluation, analysing the domestic and international business environment, solving cross-cutting problems of transport and logistics activities.

3.1. Analyses the international transport and logistics market, forecasts the demand for transport forwarding services and establishes plans for enterprise efficient, value-added activities.

3.2. Identifies the legal acts, regulating transport and logistics business, and apply them in the activity of enterprises.

3.3. Identifies the need for resources for the transport and logistics enterprise technological process management.

3.4. Organises transport and logistics processes, applying the latest technological, management and marketing solutions and methods, ensuring the quality of the enterprise's activities.

3.5. Designs optimum freight and passenger transportation routes, using modern transport expeditionary service tools.

3.6 Evaluates the opportunities of the transport business and logistics development in international markets.

4.1. Is able to express own thoughts fluently and in an impressive appeal in the Lithuanian and foreign languages orally and in writing, to communicate effectively in the professional and intercultural environment.

4.2. Is able to communicate and cooperate, exchange information and provide it to specialists in a range of fields and representatives of society groups.

5.1. Is able to coordinate enterprise and personal interests, be creative and responsible for making decisions, learns in an independent and constant manner.

5.2. Is able to be a leader, creating significant positive changes, motivating the team to achieve common aims for enhancement of the enterprise value.

5.3. Is able to analyse and critically evaluate the selected operational strategies, set aims, formulate objectives and foresee the most effective ways and means to implement them.

Students study these subjects:

Full-time studies

1st year	1 semester		2 semester
	Subject	Credic	Subject	Credic
	Philosophy /Sociology	4	Professional Foreign Language	4
	Fundamentals of Transport Technics	5	Psychology	3
	Applied Mathematics	6	Transport System	6
	Philosophy/Sociology	3	Social Research	4
	Micro-macroeconomics	6	Transport Law	3
	Business Communication Practice	6	Entrepreneurship Fundamentals/Project Management	4
			Entrepreneurship Development Practice	6
2nd year	3 semester		4 semester
	Subject	Credits	Subject	Credits
	Transport Business Document Management	3	Management of Human Resources	3
	Management Fundamentals /Business Processes	5	Marketing of Services	3
	Statistical Data Analysis and Software Tools	4	Economics of Transport Enterprises	5
	Accounting and Finance	6	Vehicles	4
	Transport Ecology	3	Human safety and ergonomics	3
	Logistics	6	Professional Skill Development Practice	12
	Optional Subject	3	Professional Skill Development Practice	6

3rd year	5 semester		6 semester
	Subject	Credits	Subject	Credits
	Organisation of Freight and Passenger Transportation	6	Quality Management in Transport and Logistics Enterprises	3
	Risk Insurance	4	Transport Forwarding Activity Management	5
	Information Systems in Transport	3	International Business/Electronic Business	4
	Transport Nodes and Terminals	5	Final Practice	9
	Supply Chain Management	6	Final Thesis	9
	Transport Management System Practice	3
	Optional Subject	3

Part-time studies

1st yaer	1 semester		2 semester
	Subject	Credits	Subject	Credits
	Professional Foreign Language	4	Professional Foreign Language	4
	Philosophy/ Sociology	3	Human safety and ergonomics	3
	Applied Mathematics	6	Entrepreneurship Fundamentals/Project Management	5
	Psychology	3	Fundamentals of Transport Technics	5
	Micro-macroeconomics	6	Transport System	6
	Micro-macroeconomics	6
2nd year	3 semester		4 semester
	Subject	Credits	Subject	Credits
	Entrepreneurship Fundamentals/Project Management		Accounting and Finance	3
	Logistics	6	Vehicles	4
	Social Research	4	Organisation of Freight and Passenger Transportation	6
	Statistical Data Analysis and Software Tools	6	Economics of Transport Enterprises	6
	Transport Business Document Management	3	Entrepreneurship Development Practice	6
	Business Communication Practice	6	Entrepreneurship Development Practice	6

3rd year	5 semester		6 semester
	Subject	Credits	Subject	Credits
	Transport Law	3	Risk Insurance	4
	Management of Human Resources	3	Transport Ecology	3
	Marketing of Services	3	Transport Nodes and Terminals	5
	Statistical Data Analysis and Software Tools	4	Professional Skill Development Practice	12
	Economics of Transport Enterprises	5
	Optional Subject	3

4th year	7 semester		8 semester
	Subject	Credits	Subject	Credits
	Supply Chain Management	6	Transport Management System Practice	3
	Quality Management in Transport and Logistics Enterprises	3	Final Practice	9
	Transporto ekspedicinės veiklos vadyba	5	Final Thesis	9
	International Business/Electronic Business	4
	Information Systems in Transport	3
	Optional Subject	3

** - alternatives subjects.

Students choose Optional Subjects according to the Description of Optional Subjects.