Management, studia stacjonarne II stopnia

Study field description

The Second-Cycle Management Studies offered in English is a full-time four-term programme. Having completed term 1, the student is requested to choose between two specialization: Small and Medium Enterprise Management or Management in Logistics. The studies end with a MA degree. The studies prepare the student to undertake own business activity, and to work in commerce, industry, services and various consulting agencies, economic organisations and organisations for employers hiring middle and executive management.

The specialization Small and Medium Enterprise Management comprises modules that let students acquire advanced knowledge, skills and social competence in the scope of enterprise management.

 The specialization Management in Logistics comprises modules that let students acquire knowledge, and certain skills of organising logistics in enterprises, planning logistic activities and taking decisions in that scope.

The University reserves the right not to open a department  or specialty when the number of accepted candidates is too low.

Admission procedure

Candidates applying for admission to a second-cycle study programme must be holders of a diploma of higher education.  

The selection of candidates is conducted based on:

- a diploma grade  in the case of graduates of the same or related field of study;

 or

- an interview covering major subjects appropriate for the udergraduate degree programme in Management in the case of candidates with a degree in other fields of study. 

The following grading scale is applied: very good (5), good plus (4+), good (4), satisfactory plus (3+), satisfactory (3), unsatisfactory (a failing grade) (2). The candidate who gets a failing grade in the interview cannot be admitted.

Announcement of results

 The results of the recruitment will be available in the IRK account of each registered candidate. 

Required documents

Having registered in the IRK system, the candidate is obliged to submit all the required paper-based documents. Failure to do so will be understood as a resignation from applying for the study  programme, despite a valid registration and paying the required application fee. The documents need to be submitted to Centralny Punkt Obsługi Kandydata (the Central Service Point for Candidates) - time and date as specified on the IRK website.

 A list of documents required can be downloaded here.

Addidional information for candidates

A tuition fee is required.

 Example interview topics

1. Management - its nature, objectives and functions
2. Decision-making process in organisation and techniques for its support
3. Organisation and its functions. Organisational culture
4. Organisation's intellectual capital
5. Concept and operation of market mechanisms
6. Theory of consumer choice
7. Financial market and its participants
8. Banking system and its structure
9. Enterprise and entrepreneurship. Organisational and legal forms of running business
10. Conditions of organisational behaviours. Factors determining the behaviour of individuals and groups in organisation
11. Phenomenon of a conflict in organisation, its conditions and consequences
12. Determinants of human resource management
13. IT systems in the management
14. Incentive systems in contemporary organisations
15. Benefits from implementing quality management system in a company
16. Role of the internet in a contemporary company
17. Composition of instruments in marketing mix
18. Concept of enterprise marketing management
19. Analysis of marketing environment
20. Role and tasks of Marketing Information System and marketing research
21. Financial result and its components
22. Objectives and conditions of enterprise financial decisions. VBM Conception
23. Corporate finance process. Sources of finance and shape of capital structure 
24. Regional policy - objectives, tasks, instruments
25. Knowledge management and effectiveness of organisation operation
26. System and structure of public finances
27. Public revenue and expenditure. Budgetary equilibrium
28. Tasks and objectives of logistics in areas of company operation