4 YEARS FULL-TIME OR 5 YEARS PART-TIME, BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONOURS)

The increasing scale and complexity of business operations presents new intellectual challenges to business executives. The rapid development of new concepts and approaches has opened up exciting new opportunities for business careers, based on advanced study in a selection of disciplines appropriate to the context, operations and problems of modern business.

This programme combines an academic study of business as a system and organisation within society as a whole, examining the context in which business is conducted, together with a functionally-oriented study of the problem-solving, decision based techniques appropriate to business situations and the monitoring of business operations. An important consideration is the rapid pace of technological and social change in the career environment.

Consequently, the programme has been designed to equip the students intellectually, enabling them to handle concepts and techniques suitable for the initial period of their career, to enable them to develop further in a variety of directions and eventually to specialise in their chosen area. This has been approached by way of the programme structure containing core disciplines and optional subjects. These provide a general framework of theory and analysis as well as the practical application of decision-oriented and monitoring techniques, and within which the multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary nature of business may be studied effectively.

This programme provides the opportunity to develop a broad range of studies in business which will enable the individual to pursue a range of career paths in the general management and administration of business and commercial organisations. A choice of specialist options is provided to enable greater depth of knowledge and understanding of the more common functions found in most organisations (e.g. Marketing, Accounting and Information Systems). In addition, the opportunity is provided to study the sectors of business activity appropriate to the Cyprus economy, which will provide a sound platform for the development of a career in such sectors. The flexibility in the programme structure provides the opportunity for option pathways/concetrations in a number of business disciplines such as:

• General Business Administration
• Accounting and Finance
• Marketing Management
• Banking
• Management
• Computing and Accounting

This serves the personal needs and interests of individual students in the best possible way.

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