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1st (first) cycle of studies includes three parallel three-year long programs:
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.
a) 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:
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.
b) 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:
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.
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:
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.
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.
2nd (second) cycle of studies – Master studies is organized through the following forms:
3rd (third) cycle of studies – doctoral studies are delivered with Faculties of Economics in Vienna and Ljubljana, and includes two doctoral programs: