Bachelor's Degree Programme in Marine Business Management

General Information about the Programme
The bachelor programme in marine business management will provide students with basic training in economy, marketing, and management subjects. An important goal are to create a broad and

Professional Prospects
The Bachelor's Degree Programme in Marine Business Management will provide a broad vocational education for administrative and managerial work. With a Bachelor's Degree in Marine Business Management, you will be qualified for further studies at Master's Degree level .

Study Conditions on Campus
As a Marine Business Management student at the Norwegian College of Fishery Science (NFH), you will meet many academic challenges, but also many social and cultural possibilities. Everything will be arranged in order for you to be successful in your studies. At the lectures, you will meet committed lecturers. Self-tuition may be carried out in the reading rooms or in the computer lab. Free access to a personal e-mail account and web surfing is a matter of course for all students. The educational web portal Class Fronter is used increasingly in the teaching. Using this web portal, you will be able to communicate with your fellow students and class lecturers at any time.

Admission Requirements
The Bachelor's Degree Programme in Marine Business Management has no further admission requirements beyond the Higher Education Entrance Qualifications. Applicants 25 years of age or older may apply for admission based on prior learning and work experience. Special prerequisite training in mathematics, chemistry or statistics is not required. A minimum of 2 years of upper secondary school mathematics will however be beneficial. Students who lack basic training in mathematics will be given a separate basic course in mathematics at the start of the Bachelor's Degree Programme. Admission in the programme is restricted; in 2004, 35 students were admitted.

Study Programme Description
The Bachelor's Degree Programme in Marine Business Management will provide students with basic training in economy, marketing, and management subjects. The first four semesters of the programme are common and compulsory for all students. In the fifth and sixth semesters, the students will have the choice between the following fields of study;

Logistics

Enterprise development

Fisheries

Economics


Study Programme Description

Sem 1	FIL-0700 Examen philosophicum	EXF-0730 Examen facultatum	BED-0001 Basic business economics
Sem 2	BED-1004-Introduction to marketing	SOK-1001 Markets, prices and economic behavior (20 ECTS)
Sem 3	BED-1001 Basic cost accounting	SVF-2502 Organizational theory	BED-1003 Finance and investment
Sem 4	SOK-1010 National accounts and business cycles	BED-2003 Corporate strategy	BED-1002 Financial accounting and analysis of financial accounts
Sem 5	Elective	Elective	Elective
Sem 6	Elective	Elective	Elective

Marine Business Management - Logistics

Sem 5	BED-1005 Logistics I	SVF-3503 Prodject management	BED-2001 Finance - intermediate levelt
Sem 6	BED-2011 Introduction to kvantitative analysis and statistics	BED-2006 Logistics II	BED-2004 Industrial marketing

Marine Business Management - Enterprise development

Sem 5	Elective	SVF-3503 Prodject management	BED-2001 Finance - intermediate level
Sem 6	BED-2011 Introduction to kvantitative analysis and statistics	SVF-2503 Enterprise development	BED-2004 Industrial marketing

Marine Business Management - Fisheries

Sem 5	BIO-2506 Introduction to fish biology	BIO-2508 Aquaculture I	FSK-2002 Ocean ranching law
Sem 6	BED-2011 Introduction to kvantitative analysis and statistics	FSK-1002 Seafood processing	BIO-1501 Aquatic Ecology

Marine Business Management - Economics

Sem 5	SOK-2001 Strategic behaviour	SOK-2010 Open economy macroeconomics and growth	SOK-Elective
Sem 6	BED-2011 Introduction to kvantitative analysis and statistics	SOK-Elective	SOK-Elective

Further descriptions of course content and lecture plans are available from the University of Tromsø course catalogue.

Programme Coordination
The Norwegian College of Fishery Science is in charge of the academic and administrative sides of the Bachelor's Degree Programme in Marine Business Management. The marine Business Management Programme Board is in charge of programme coordination.

Contact: Senior Executive Officer Tore Jørgensen.