Bachelor degree (4 years)
- Duration of studies: 4 years
- Awarded Degree: Professional Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration
- Qualification: Business Administrator
Mission of the study programme:
To prepare highly qualified specialists, innovative thinkers, competitive specialists and business leaders, who are able to solve modern business problems in the conditions of dynamically developing competitive global market, have entrepreneurial thinking, are capable of establishing and managing their own businesses in various industries while being socially responsible. The mission is fulfilled through intellectual and practical interdisciplinary approach to training.
Aim of the study programme:
To prepare students to take leading positions and build careers in the sphere of business, public and-commercial organisations, to establish their own businesses.
Objectives of the study programme:
- To provide competitive professional higher education (5th level professional qualification, 6th level EKI) in the field of tourism business administration and to prepare tourism specialists with a high potential for productivity both on the Latvian and global labour markets;
- To promote high quality of education and traineeship in the sphere of business administration through the formation and strengthening of analytical and leadership skills, as well as problem-solving skills;
- To give students comprehensive knowledge, practical skills and understanding of the laws of modern economic development, of the role of innovation in entrepreneurial activity, the processes which take place in various branches of the national economy, in state and public management, and of other processes of business activity;
- To develop students’ skills of scientific research, analytical thinking, innovative thinking and creativity, communication skills, which will let the graduates become creative personalities and successfully enter the Latvian and global labour markets;
- To promote the development of education and research work in the field of business management while strengthening the competitiveness of Latvian higher education internationally;
- To prepare students to take leading positions and build careers in the sphere of business, public and-commercial organisations, to establish their own businesses, and to further studies at Master’s degree programme.
ISMA graduate who has mastered Professional Bachelor’s degree study programme “Business Administration” is able to:
- Analyse and assess the international and domestic economic environment, and the tendencies of tourism market development, competitive situation and possible actions of competitors;
- Understand the logic of entrepreneurial activity, to apply various methods of the evaluation of its efficiency and the analysis of an organisation’s business environment, to model business process schemes, to develop business plans, to understand the legal background of entrepreneurial activity;
- Evaluate the factors of external and internal environment and their impact on entrepreneurial activity, to identify the opportunities of tourism business development locally and internationally;
- Formulate the mission and vision of an enterprise, to work out its development strategy and to define strategic, tactical and operational goals;
- Analyse and assess the indicators of the economic activity of an enterprise, to plan its operations, to adjust and improve plans in the dynamic economic environment in compliance with the set objectives and market situation;
- Manage a multicultural team, communicating with the employees of the enterprise on the achievement of goals and problem solving;
- Organise rational and coordinated work of the structural divisions of the enterprise, motivate employees, supervise the performance of duties by subordinate staff;
- Manage and monitor the spheres of functioning of an enterprise: marketing, organisation of services, personnel, finance and information systems management, logistics, etc.;
- Analyse and assess the operations of an enterprise and the achieved results, to follow the progress of goals, to ensure the achievement of these goals, to make decisions and changes aimed at the optimisation of operational and strategic activities;
- Identify commercial and financial risks, analyse them and implement measures to prevent the negative impact of risks;
- Represent the enterprise in transactions with other enterprises, organisations and institutions, including public and state institutions;
- Ensure the compliance of the enterprise operations with the requirements of the normative acts of international legislation and the legislation of the Republic of Latvia.
Each student has an opportunity of paid traineeship in European companies, as well as to study during 1 or 2 semesters in foreign partner-universities of ISMA in the framework of student mobility programmes. ISMA also offers traineeship placement at tourism and hospitality enterprises in Latvia. Many ISMA students start professional career while studying.
ISMA gives students an opportunity to develop and implement their business ideas in Business Incubator, with the benefits and support provided to the participants.
Business Administration in Tourism
- Duration of studies: Full Time – 4 years; Part Time − 4,5 years
- Awarded Degree: Professional Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration in Tourism
- Qualification: Business Administrator
Aim of the study programme:
Provide the graduates an opportunity to be in demand and take positions in tourism industry both in Latvia and abroad. Our academic staff strives for sharing with our students their rich experience and knowledge of tourism industry management.
Objectives of the study programme:
- To provide competitive professional higher education (5th level professional qualification, 6th level EKI) in the field of tourism business administration and to prepare tourism specialists with a high potential for productivity both on the Latvian and global labour markets.
- To give students comprehensive knowledge, practical skills and understanding of the laws of modern economic development, of the role of innovation in entrepreneurial activity, the processes which take place in tourism industry and in other industries of the economy related to tourism, of state and public management, and other processes of business activity.
- To develop students’ skills of scientific research, analytical thinking, innovative thinking and creativity, communication skills, which will let the graduates become creative personalities and successfully enter the Latvian and global labour markets.
- To promote the development of education and research work in the field of tourism business management while strengthening the competitiveness of Latvian higher education internationally.
ISMA graduate who has mastered Professional Bachelor’s degree study programme “Business Administration in Tourism” is able to:
- Analyse and assess the international and domestic economic environment, and the tendencies of tourism market development, competitive situation and possible actions of competitors;
- Evaluate the factors of external and internal environment and their impact on entrepreneurial activity, to identify the opportunities of tourism business development locally and internationally;
- Formulate the mission and vision of an enterprise, to work out its development strategy and to define strategic, tactical and operational goals;
- Analyse and assess the indicators of the economic activity of an enterprise, to plan its operations, to adjust and improve plans in the dynamic economic environment in compliance with the set objectives and market situation;
- Manage a multicultural team, communicating with the employees of the enterprise on the achievement of goals and problem solving;
- Organise rational and coordinated work of the structural divisions of the enterprise, motivate employees, supervise the performance of duties by subordinate staff;
- Manage and monitor the spheres of functioning of an enterprise: marketing, organisation of services, personnel, finance and information systems management, logistics, etc.;
- Analyse and assess the operations of an enterprise and the achieved results, to follow the progress of goals, to ensure the achievement of these goals, to make decisions and changes aimed at the optimisation of operational and strategic activities;
- Identify commercial and financial risks, analyse them and implement measures to prevent the negative impact of risks;
- Represent the enterprise in transactions with other enterprises, organisations and institutions, including public and state institutions;
- Ensure the compliance of the enterprise operations with the requirements of the normative acts of international legislation and the legislation of the Republic of Latvia.
Each student has an opportunity of paid traineeship at famous European resorts (in Spain, Greece, Bulgaria and in other countries), as well as to study during 1 or 2 semesters in foreign partner-universities of ISMA in the framework of student mobility programmes. ISMA also offers traineeship placement at tourism and hospitality enterprises in Latvia. Many ISMA students start professional career while studying.
Together with the study process ISMA offers to master courses and receive certificates, which will ensure additional stability and reliability on the labour market:
- Travel consultant
- Travel organizer
- Excursion guide
- GDS “Amadeus”
- Receptionist
- Sales manager at a hotel
- Hotelinco hotel system
- Bartender–waiter
- Cook assistant
At ISMA we organise laboratories, simulation games in tourism, tourism club and agency are open.