Study location	Lithuania, Kaunas
Academic field	Business and administration (ISCED 34) Business studies (JACS N100)
Type	Bachelor, full-time
Nominal duration	4 years (240 ECTS)
Study language	English
Awards	B.Sc.

Tuition fee	€2,954 per year
Application fee	€100 one-time
Registration fee	To be confirmed You need to choose an individual service package. Please contact the center curator or your agent and consult. You can also familiarize yourself with packages baltic.study/en/packages You become a part of student union and ambassador program automatically after you will get Base or Standard or VIP status. *Do not forget to ask discount

Entry qualification

High school / secondary education (or higher) Minimum 60% CGPA Admission score is counted based on: Arithmetic average of high school degree diploma supplement all subjects * 0.7 + Motivation letter / interview * 0.3. Minimum admission score to qualify: 5,4. Applicants must upload education documents in original language, as well as translations into English. Diplomas and transcripts issued outside EU must be legalized with a legalization stamp or Apostille. You must take the original entry qualification documents along with you when you finally go to the university. It is necessary to have notarized certified documents translated, legalized and apostilled.

Territory requirements	Applications are NOT accepted from the following territories (based on citizenship): Bangladesh, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen.

Language requirements

English Proof of English Language: applicant has to present document proving B2 level (TOEFL 87-109 iBT/534-633 PBT, IELTS 5.5-6,5, Cambridge English First (FCE) 161-180, BEC Vantage 161-180, Michigan ECCE (min. 650), PTE General Level 3, TOEIC Listening & Reading 785, TOEIC Speaking & Writing 310, Duolingo 100-125, EnglishScore 400-499) if the applicant is not native speaker and/or had not received education in English.

Other requirements	A motivation letter must be added to your application.

Overview

The aim of the Programme of Business Administration is to prepare specialists of broad erudition and wide profile able to take up professional activity of a business administrator, a lower level manager etc., to work in any business organization’s administration unit, also in small and medium business companies. Graduates of the programme are able creatively to apply theoretical innovations and practical achievements in professional activity of the main areas of business administration (marketing, finance, human resource, operations management), to provide the independent analysis of various business administration problems, decision making and implementation, as well as project management, as well as to react to the changing business environment and different business contexts of the modern organizations.

Feedback of lecturers and students
„VMU Faculty of Economics and Management provides opportunities for self-realization such as international exchanges and internships with Erasmus+ program, volunteering experiences inside the university and faculty. Also, flexible schedule of lectures makes it possible to combine studies with work” – 4th year Business Administration student Šarūnė Kasperavičiūtė

Competencies acquired
Study Programme of Business Administration are composed so that a student having successfully accomplished the programme would be able:
To demonstrate the knowledge of the fundamental theoretical provisions and concepts of business administration and related areas.
To apply knowledge when assessing the main areas of business administration – marketing, finance, human resource, operations management.
To apply theoretical innovations and practical achievements, tendencies and peculiarities of modern business environment, as well as different business contexts to the analysis of business administration situations.
To investigate business administration problems of different nature applying scientific research methods and methods for determination of research results validity.
To assess business administration issues and substantiate their relevance when analysing the impact of the changing business environment factors.
To demonstrate skills for the independent analysis of various business administration problems/situations, decision making and implementation, as well as project management.
To demonstrate skills of oral and written communication, using professional business (including English) language.

Programme structure

I semester
Microeconomics
Essentials of Management
Elective course
Organizational Communication
Mathematics
Subjects from Groups

II semester
Theories of Economic and Management
Macroeconomics EKO
Principles of Marketing
Subjects from Groups

III semester
Fundamentals of Finance
Educational Practice
Managerial Decision Making
Professional language of management
Subjects from Groups

IV semester
Organizational Behaviour
International Economics
Business administration term paper No. 1
Elective course(
Any 6 ECTS course of C group subjects from the other programmes of the Faculty
Subjects from Groups A & B 12

V semester
Social and Marketing Research
Statistics in management and marketing
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Elective course(1)
Any 6 ECTS course of C group subjects from the other programmes of the Faculty

VI semester
Management Information Systems
Human Resource Management
Competitiveness and innovation
Business Law
Business administration term paper No. 2
Elective course(1)
Any 6 ECTS course of C group subjects from

VII semester
Business ethics and social responsibility
Quality Management Systems
Operations Management
Elective course(1)
Any 6 ECTS course of C group subjects from
the other programmes of the Faculty
Elective course(1) (5ECTS)
Any 5 ECTS course of C group subjects from

VIII semester
Qualification Practice in Business
Administration
Strategic Management
Bachelor‘s Thesis in Business
Administration 15

Career opportunities

Career opportunities
Graduates of Business Administration programme will be able:

to further study in business administration and management, as well as in economics master study programmes;
to work in the marketing, finance, operations, human resource or any other business organization administration units;
to take up professional activity of a business administrator, a lower level manager etc. in any state or private manufacturing or service providing business enterprise, especially in small and middle business sector;
to start personal business establishing an individual company.