Undergraduate Programs

1st (first) cycle of studies includes three parallel three-year long programs:

  1. Academic program, with majors: Economics and Management
  2. Business-oriented program: Business Management
  3. Programs in English: FM&MM
  4. International program in cooperation with Griffith College Dublin (henceforth GCD): Sarajevo Business School

 

1. Academic program: Economics and Management

The three-year (“academic”) program includes two majors: Economics and Management, Business Administration. The study lasts for six semesters and involves a total of 180 ECTS credits, including the internship and diploma thesis.

Economics

Economics program aims at educating professionals for varied aspects of economic science in the areas beyond the classic business functions, i.e. an enterprise as a business system.

After the core courses, mandatory courses at the major, students have the opportunity to select one of these concentrations:

  • International economy
  • European integrations
  • Quantitative economic analysis
  • Macro-financial management

The program ends with a diploma thesis, and depending on the legal solution, i.e. a decision at the University in Sarajevo level, it will use the title of BSc (Bachelor of Science) or BA (Bachelor of Arts). Upon the completed program, students can immediately enrol in a master or MBA program.

Management

This program is intended for those who want to combine the analytical knowledge of economics, business and management with practical managerial skills. This program should yield future managers and business analysts with excellent insights into the logic of business processes.

The program provides for the following concentrations:

  • Banking and insurance
  • Financial management
  • Macroeconomic management
  • Marketing management
  • Management and information technologies
  • Management and organization
  • Accounting and auditing

The program ends with a diploma thesis, and depending on the legal solution, i.e. a decision at the University in Sarajevo level, it will use the title of BSc (Bachelor of Science) or BA (Bachelor of Arts). Upon the completed program, students can immediately enrol in a master or MBA program.

 

2. Business Oriented Program

The program aims at profiling future economists who will work in typical modern business functions. As opposed to the Management, program, its goal is to provide students with basic managerial knowledge for performing the classic business functions.

The program includes following concentrations:

  • Banking and insurance industry
  • Marketing
  • Management and organization
  • Entrepreneurship and business economy
  • Accounting and auditing
  • Development of business information systems
  • Tourism

Upon the completion of program, students can be admitted to an MBA or master program in Management, provided they have two years of working experience (before or after studies) in the profession, and that they have passed the following differential exams prior to admission: Mathematics for economists, Statistics in economics and management, and Quantitative methods in economics and management.

 

3. Programs in English: FM&MM

Marketing Management and Financial Management concentrations have been taught at the Management Department since the academic year 2008/2009. From the academic year 2011/2012, the classes are held completely in the English language.

The reason behind the introduction of classes is keeping abreast with the latest global trends in education. Specifically, the students gain many benefits by studying in English, most important of which is mastering of the language that you will require in your future professional specialization. The very fact that you will be studying in this way increases your opportunities for studying abroad, participating in student exchanges, benefits when enrolling into the Master’s study and, of course, greater chances for getting employment.

 

4. Sarajevo Business School

This is the first undergraduate program in Bosnia and Herzegovina that has the ENQA European accreditation for quality. Classes are delivered fully in English, and lecturers include respectable professors from the University in Sarajevo and Griffith College. The first two years of the program are delivered in Sarajevo, and the third year in Dublin, Ireland. Students take their degree in Dublin, upon which they can continue with postgraduate studies in Ireland, B-H, Commonwealth countries or in any European Union country, or else find a suitable job and obtain a permanent residence visa in the EU countries.

Curricula for these programs were developed by Griffith College Dublin and approved by HETAC (Higher Education Training and Awards Council), a state agency for granting accreditations for higher-education institutions in the Republic of Ireland).

Depending on the program, students will be granted a double degree: one by University in Sarajevo pursuant to Bologna standards, and a degree by Griffith College Dublin, Ireland.