Business Administration Specialist (Level 5 Vocational Education)
A business administration specialist is the driving force behind a company—someone who understands how things really work, from product development and marketing to accounting and team management. This program will give you the broad-based knowledge and skills you need to manage the day-to-day operations of a small business, solve problems creatively, and participate successfully in teamwork.
Duration of Study: A comprehensive and diverse curriculum totaling 120 ECTS credits (lasting an average of 2 years).
What exactly do you study and do?
- Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service: You will learn to create marketing plans, carry out sales processes, develop new products, and communicate with customers (including resolving complaints and gathering feedback).
- Organizing Production and Purchasing: You’ll learn how to plan the resources needed for production, organize logistics, select suppliers, and monitor inventory levels.
- Team Management: You will learn how to set goals, plan activities, motivate employees, and foster a positive organizational culture.
- Accounting and Finance: You will be able to prepare source documents for accounting, budgets, and financial plans, and calculate the cost of goods and selling prices.
- Digital Skills and Administrative Tasks: You use various computer programs, cloud services, and online platforms with ease in your work.
- Real-world work experience: An integral part of the program is an extensive internship (30 ECTS credits) at a major company, where you will apply all the knowledge you have gained in school in a real-world work environment.
Course Options
This broad-based program does not offer separate areas of specialization. However, you can choose 18 ECTS credits worth of exciting elective courses that align with your personal interests: for example, the basics of project work, innovation and creativity, employment contract law in practice, the legal foundations of consumer protection, or professional English and Russian.
Is this field right for you?
- A prerequisite for beginning studies is having completed secondary education.
- This position is a good fit for you if you’re proactive, able to manage your work independently, solution-oriented, and enjoy communicating with others and working as part of a team.
- The program is very flexible—it offers part-time study (session-based) and work-based learning (apprenticeship), which makes it easy to balance work and study.
Where to next?
The program concludes with a professional examination, which includes the presentation and defense of a personal e-portfolio before a committee. Upon successful completion, you will earn a Level 5 Business Administration Specialist certification and will be ready to work as a highly regarded specialist or manager in various companies—or even start your own business.
