Logistics Management: Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences

Course description

Logistics is big business. Its consumption of land, labor, capital, and information—coupled with its impact on the world's standard of living—have enormous implications.

Master in Logistics Management graduates have everything it takes to become important links in the chain of processes that is called Logistics. This Master programme is built on three pillars: the educational programme, the research programme and the personal development programme. The educational programme provides a profound knowledge of the necessary theories and frameworks and apply theory to practice. The research programme prepares the student for academic research. In the personal development programme students reflect on themselves and the programme, in order to gain an understanding of their personal growth in the study programme.

The curriculum of the Master programme consists of core modules, specialisation modules and elective modules. This design was adopted to create the combination of knowledge, skills and competencies that all professionals in the business field must have.

The first three blocks of the study programme start with a combination of core modules and specialisation modules. The core modules, which focus on management and research, provide the solid foundation of the Master Degree.

The core modules are: Organisational Behaviour, Organisational Architecture, Business Ethics and Politics, Management of Technology, Critical thinking and Argument Analysis, and Research Methodology. The specialisation modules focus on key topics in the specialisation.

Career Perspectives

Master in Logistics Management Graduates perform successfully in such fields as:

• Controlling the production planning and scheduling process;
• Making effective use of the Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) system, while anticipating its impact on the manufacturing process and on inventories;
• Planning and forecasting while translating internal and external customer demands;
• Managing the supply chain while evaluating it and making effective use of relevant tools, principles and concepts and of web-opportunities such as E-business

Entry Requirements

To enter our Master Programme the following is required:

• Bachelor’s Degree with a relevant major preferably in Business
• GMAT score*of at least 500
• IELTS score** of at least 6.5*** or TOEFL iBT score of at least 90

* Students with a Dutch Bachelor Degree NVAO accredited are exempt form the GMAT requirement.

** Native English speakers,  students with a Dutch Bachelor Degree NVAO accredited or students with an English Bachelor Degree are exempt from the English Test requirement.

***In order to atract a high level of students Rotterdam Business School requires that students can only have one 6.0 on the sub-scores, all other scores need to be 6.5 or higher.