Business Administration course overview

Module 1: Business & Entrepreneurship

Experience what it is like to run a company during a simulation game. You explore the field of business, like purchasing & sales, marketing, HRM, finance, clients & staff, quality & price, competition and ethics.

Module 2: Purpose-driven Organisations

Study the day-to-day operations of an organisation and learn how to apply business models and theories.

Module 3: Sustainable Innovation

Creating and developing innovative solutions based on a sustainable development goal of choice. 

Module 4: Business in Progress

In a society where information is becoming more and more important, more numerous and questionable, business experts are expected to be able to use, analyse and deploy information.

Subjects:

• Operations Management
• Strategic Management
• Information Management
• Organisational Behaviour
• Professional Mastery
• Finance & Management
• Change Management
• Innovation Management

Study load: 16-20 contact hours, 16-20 self study hours | 60 ECTS per year

Module 1: Green Operations

Translate business strategy into business operations and organisation. Advise a company on operations management and look into optimising business processes using various decision-making tools. You research and present the ‘greenness’ of your own operations and an industry of your choice.

Module 2: Data-driven organisations

Explore the methods used by companies to gain, analyse, manage and protect information.

Module 3: Organisational Behaviour

Focusing on human behaviour in organisations, you carry out
desk research for a company and advise on organisational change. You study aspects of corporate social responsibility using real-life examples and academic articles.

Module 4: Strategic Management

Study the strategic management process in relation to marketing and advise a company on the ultimate combination of the organisation’s value proposition, the customer’s demands and the earth’s needs.

Subjects:

• Process Optimisation
• Operations Management
• Professional Mastery
• English Business Communication
• Data Management
• Information Management
• Behavioural Change
• Organisational Behaviour
• Strategic Advice
• Strategic Management

Study load: 14-18 contact hours, 20-24 selfstudy hours | 60 ECTS
per year

Semester 1: Minor subject (study abroad)

Semester 2: Internship

Putting your knowledge into practice in an internationally oriented organisation. You’ll carry out a research project that will prepare you for your graduation period.

60 ECTS per year

Semester 1: Future-Ready Business

With the emphasis being placed on People-Planet-Profit-Purpose,
you examine the future of companies and organisations and the field of business administration.

Semester 2: Graduation project 

Conclude your studies with a graduation project to show you
are a business professional in the making. You can do this at an organisation of your choice, anywhere in the world.

If you’ve already turned your dream for your own business into a reality, you could consider doing your final project in your own start-up. The Center for Entrepreneurship at NHL Stenden can advise you on how to do this.  

60 ECTS per year