This programme will provide you with an understanding of logistics and transport management and how organisations incorporate and manage these functions. It will equip you with the ability to assess the contribution of logistics and transport to competitiveness, customer service and the creation of value.
Degree structureIn your first year, you will study the same courses on business planning and processes, economics and organisation behaviour as students on our BA Hons Business Entrepreneurship and Innovation, BA Hons Business Purchasing and Supply Chain Management and BSc Hons Business degrees. This means you will have the option to switch programmes at the end of your first year if one of these more closely matches your developing skills and interests.
EmployabilityYouwill connect with employers through our dedicated Business SchoolEmployability Team who focus on developing your employmentskills. They also provide you with CV support and will inviteyou to employment fairs to network with employers and recruiters fromindustries. The team was shortlisted for the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards.
We are actively improving job prospects for graduatesthrough the support we provide. According to survey findings, 93 per centof 2014/15 Greenwich graduates looking for work were already in jobs or furtherstudy by January 2016.
Experience abroadYou can participate in the Erasmus+ internationalexchange programme. This will help improve your language skills and give youexperience of living and working in another country. The Erasmus+ Schemeprovides a grant towards the cost of studying abroad for a year.
Extracurricular activitiesOur GreenwichEmployability Passport schemerecognises and rewards your participation in additional activities such aspart-time work, volunteering, student societies or industry guest lectures.
Business start-upYou will be encouraged to enter theuniversity's Enterprise Challenge which rewards student entrepreneurship andinnovation. Previous winners received aprize of £5,000 for their idea of developing an enterprise and study hub.
We encourage our graduates withcredible business ideas to develop their business under academic supervision.International students who wish to develop their business in the UK aftergraduation may be able to apply for a visa Tier1 (Graduate Entrepreneur) scheme, subject toeligibility and availability. Accreditation
AccreditationWe anticipate that this programme will receive accreditation from the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) in the UK, which will enable graduates to gain partial exemption from CILT qualifications.
RankingGreenwichis one of the top two most globally diverse universities in the UK, US, Australia andNew Zealand, by Hotcourses Diversity Index.
Wehave also been named as one of the "mostinternational" universities on the planet by Times Higher Education magazine.
OutcomesThe aims of this degree are:
- To equip you with the ability to assess the contribution of logistics and transport tocompetitiveness, customer service and the creation of value
- To develop your comprehension of the strategic dimension of business activityessential in undertaking a management role in any organisation and to place apriority on integrated management skills as a prerequisite to strategic logistics.
This degree is currentlybeing restructured in collaboration with employers, professional bodies andstudent feedback. This ensures we develop degrees that are aligned with latestindustry trends and gives you the opportunity for subject specialisms. (This is standard UK practiceacross institutions).
The degree structure and courses listed will be updated oncethese are confirmed.
