These programs will prepare students to understand much deeper in the concept of entrepreneurship and allow them to gain knowledge, skills and attitudes of a real entrepreneur, so that they can immediately start their own business during their final year of IBA study.
A real entrepreneur will then be born. Modules include Opportunity and Lead Creation, Entrepreneurial Behaviour, Business Start-ups and Business Plans, Bootstrapping & Raising Finance, Sales Pipeline Management.
The Entrepreneurship Bachelor programme is divided into three distinct parts:
The Bachelor Programme Entrepreneurial Business Administration is aimed at highly motivated business students who are looking for a BBA which provides a combination of academic challenges and application within an intense international environment, in which they learn to start their own business.
Students understand that a broad BBA also provides them with a solid base from which to start their careers or further their academic studies, and is divided over 3 Phases. The EBA programme is structured within the module / block system which maintains a balance of core business subject modules, specialist subject modules and practical experience modules. Throughout the programming, Personal Development Plan, Tutoring and Foreign Languages represent the thread of skills and competency learning.
Phase 1 – (Theory)
Phase 2 - (From Theory to Planning)
Phase 3 - (Towards Strategy and Practice)
Phase 3 modules or the "Final year", in which students study the strategic modules of management, fulfill their special Work Preparation Module, as well as complete the year with their research assignment, the graduation dissertation. Students are also given the chance to test the robustness of their Business Plan in Business Start-ups and Business Plan Execution, as well as instigate a full business start-up in their Work Placement module.
Phase 1 | Phase 2 | Phase 3 |
Accounting & Bookkeeping | Family Businesses | Cost Accounting & Management |
Intercultural Management | Business Start-ups & Business Plans | Entrepreneurship & Society |
Innovation and Creative Entrepreneurship | Sales & Export | - (seminar) Entrepreneurs in Economic Downturn |
Small Business Environment | - (seminar) International Trade Risks | Corporate Entrepreneurship |
Modern Principles of Marketing | Procurement & Production | - (seminar) Corporate Social Responsibility |
Management, Leadership & The Organisation | Business Philosophy | Business Plan Execution |
Introduction to Finance | Entrepreneurial Behaviour | Research Methodology & Quantitative Methods |
European Law | Business Accounting | - (seminar) Business Research Methods |
Training in Interpersonal Skills | Enterprise Technology & Innovation | Strategic Marketing |
TIPS - Interviewing Skills | - (seminar) Sustainable Business | - (seminar) Marketing in Turbulent Times |
TIPS - Effective Meeting | Strategic Innovative Entrepreneurship | International Marketing for SMEs |
TIPS - Peak Performance | - (seminar) The Challenge of Business Ethics | - (seminar) International Marketing in Practice |
TIPS - Feedback & Group Interaction | Information Management | Entrepreneurship in Organisations |
Enterprise Formation | Bootstrapping & Raising Finance | - (seminar) Entrepreneurship Cases |
Sociology & Organisational Behaviour | - (seminar) Angels & Dragons | Human Resource Management |
Marketing Mix | Marketing Plan | - (seminar) Strategic Human Resources Management |
- (seminar) Digital Marketing | Managing Organisations | 2nd Foreign Languages / |
Managing Sales & Accounts | Financial & Risk Management | Intercultural Business Communication for Managers |
New Business Environment | Sales Pipeline Management | PDP 3 - Personal Development Plan & Tutoring |
Introduction to Entrepreneurship | Enterprise Diagnostics & Evaluation | Work Placement Module |
International Law in Business & Commerce | 2nd Foreign Languages | Graduation Assignment |
2nd Foreign Languages | PDP 2 – Personal Development Plan & Tutoring | |
PDP 1 – Personal Development Plan & Tutoring and Academic English | PDP Seminar - Managing Diversity | |
PDP Seminar - Business Presentation Skills | PDP Seminar - Negotiation | |
PDP Seminar - Project Management Game | PDP Seminar - Consulting Skills | |
PDP Seminar - Leadership in Business Environment | PDP Seminar - Tapping your Creativity | |
PDP Seminar - Team Building | PDP Seminar - Conflict Management | |
PDP Seminar - Effective Time Management | 6 x “Apprentice “Project Weeks & In-company Visits | |
6 x “Apprentice “Project Weeks & In-company Visits |