Presentation
The Degree Course in Business Administration is seen as the ideal completion of the preparation acquired by first level graduates of degree courses ascribed to the class of Sciences of Economics and Business Management. This course aims to train professionals who can pursue a career as managers within industrial firms, services and management consultancy firms, as well as within small and medium-sized businesses with a strong propensity for innovation.
The training path is designed to provide advanced skills on the various management aspects needed to cover executive and top-management roles within all business areas, with specific reference to general management, commercial and marketing departments, management control.
The first year’s training path is meant to provide a well-grounded knowledge of the most advanced ideas regarding general management and of the quantitative tools needed for business analysis. The second year’s training path is designed to allow students to select one from a choice of three different groups: one is finalised to develop professional skills and cultural ideas which are more oriented towards marketing. The second is finalised to develop professional skills and cultural ideas which are more oriented towards technology and innovation. The third is focussed on financial and strategic control issues.
The number of the choices available is dependent on the resources available in terms of lecturers and classrooms, as is the number of courses available for each one of the curricula. The curricula and courses stated in the Degree Course regulations must be understood as an targeted objective which could be reached on the basis that there are no limitations whatsoever to the resources available. As a consequence, every year the Degree Course Council may determine the group of disciplines from which students can make their choices from the options allowed by each curriculum.
Learning outcomes
This course is designed to provide an adequate completion to the preparation acquired in the first cycle degree Courses ascribed to the class of Sciences of Economics and Business Management (Class 17) or to the class of Economic Sciences (Class 28). In particular, this second cycle degree Course aims to train graduates possessing the skills to apply their business knowledge to the top management of both single business and multibusiness companies and of their individual functional areas, with a special focus on the areas of commercial, marketing, human resources management and strategic control departments. The training path relies on a strong integration of the core disciplines with an extension to specialised business skills. An emphasis is also placed on the development of managerial knowledge and skills. For this purpose it is strongly advisable to broaden the knowledge of specific business areas along with a holistic outlook on corporate structure and with skills in quantitative techniques in support of the decision-making processes at all management levels.
Admission requirements and/or tests
The following categories may enrol on this Degree Course:
- first level graduates in Business Economics or in Economics and Marketing from the Faculty of Economics of Bologna, or, in accordance with specifically-designed conversion tables, graduates in Economics of Tourism;
- first level graduates with a degree ascribed to Class 17 (Sciences of Economics and Business Management) and Class 28 (Economic Sciences);
- first and second level students from other classes having attained at least 30 credits overall for the following discipline sectors: economics, law, mathematics;
- graduates holding an old style Italian degree on condition that at least 100 credits of their curriculum are recognised;
- graduates possessing a final academic qualification attained abroad after 15 years’ education or more.
A selective admission test will be held for student intake. There are 100 places available.
Final examination
The final examination consists of the preparation of a thesis on a topic proposed by the graduating student and agreed upon by a supervisor lecturing on and being formally responsible for a course of this Degree Course. The thesis subject may entail a vocational training experience conducted on the graduating student’s initiative in an external organisation. The final thesis will be discussed before a Board specifically appointed by the Dean of the Degree Course Council.
Career opportunities
Within businesses and organisations graduates may take up roles in the commercial, planning and control system and marketing departments or as director’s assistants.
Graduates can also pursue a career in the field of business management consultancy.
Access to further study
Study paths subsequent to the first cycle degree Course range from second cycle degrees to master’s degrees, from postgraduate courses to PhD degrees, with special reference to those in Employment Law and in Business Administration.
Contact details
Contact for students:
Prof. Alberto Pizzoferrato
pizzoferrato@economia.unibo.it
Prof. Angelo Paletta
apaletta@economia.unibo.it
Students can contact tutors by stopping by their offices during the office hoursat the times stated below:
Ing. Laura Toschi– Department of Management
via Capo di Lucca 34.
Monday: 14.30 a.m. – 16.30 p.m.
Students can contact tutors at the following e-mail address: tutorclasda@economia.unibo.it