Management at WSB Merito University in Opole is a six-semester first-cycle (bachelor's) programme taught in English. It suits school-leavers who want to run companies and teams and are drawn to working in an international business environment.
The core classes begin with Principles of Management, Accounting and Marketing, then move on to Organisation Behaviour, Quality Management, Marketing Research, Financial Analysis and Small Business Management. Human Resource in Organization and a class on techniques for coping with stress sit beside the numbers, so people skills get as much room as figures.
A good deal of the learning is about acting under time pressure. You play business games and run business simulations, practising decisions in realistic scenarios that call for managing resources and choosing a strategy. You also learn to use information technology to run a company more efficiently, to read market and financial data, to assess how healthy a firm is and to forecast, and to motivate and lead a team in different situations, with global business trends as the backdrop.
The International Business specialisation brings classes such as:
Work experience is built into the course. If you already work in a job that matches your studies, the placement can be credited on the basis of that employment, and a paid internship is also possible. Internship programmes are prepared together with partner employers, who tailor the requirements to particular positions. In the final year you write a degree project that tackles a practical problem linked to your field, drawing on literature and your own analyses.
Alongside the classes taught in English, the programme includes learning one further foreign language.
The programme points towards roles such as:
Based on the programme pages at merito.pl.
