Distance degree programs for Adults & Professionals.
Business Administration Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning
Business Administration via distance learning
This program provides the knowledge necessary for entrepreneurs and business administrators to succeed in a business environment. Students will gain a wide perspective of enterprises' world, while acquiring specific skills in the area of planning and organization, finance, management, marketing, economics, as well as national and international markets. This updated program highlights the challenges facing the twenty-first-century business managers such as quality and customer management, the influence of technology and its integration, and the creation of new standards for business administration in periods of instability.
Academic Supervisor : Kao Kveng Hong
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Business Administration Online via distance learning
Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Business Administration.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Agribusiness - Business & Economic Consulting - E-Business & E-Commerce - Economic Science - Entrepreneurship & Innovation - Entrepreneurship Management - Executive Leadership - Financial Management - Financial Science - Human Resources - International Business - International Trade - Management Science - Marketing & Communication - Real Estate - Sales & Product Management .
Specialist - Expert Diploma - Business Administration Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Business Administration via distance learning = 45 Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.
Bachelor's Degree - Business Administration Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Business Administration via distance learning = 45 Academic credits + 40 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Management Science.
Master's Degree - Business Administration Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Business Administration via distance learning = 45 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Management Science. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Business Administration Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Business Administration via distance learning = 45 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Management Science. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Payment plans are available upon request up to 36 monthly installments. More info...
BIU adapts each Distance Learning Higher Education degree program to the needs of each student. More info...
Business Administration Online
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
You may study any subject as an independent online continuing education course. More info...
Marketing & Communication
This course examines the concepts and techniques involved in the planning, pricing, promoting, and distribution of goods and services. It provides an analysis of marketing opportunities and threats, researching and selecting target markets, developing and comparing marketing strategies, and consumer marketing versus business-to-business marketing. It deals with the communication process related to marketing problems and the promotional mix. It is specifically applied to the areas of advertising, consumer and trade sales promotion, publicity, public relations and sponsorships, personal selling, and sales management.
Academic Supervisor: Maria Smetanina
Business Marketing
This course deals with the principles and concepts involved in the planning, pricing, promoting, and distribution of goods and services at a small business scale. It examines market opportunities and threats, develops and compares promotional strategies for small business, and provides approaches to achieve an effective marketing strategy on a minimal budget.
Academic Supervisor: Maria Smetanina
Business Finance
This course examines the concepts of taxes (gross income, deductions, and gains and losses), accounting, and finance with an emphasis on using the financial data used for decision making. It shows how the analysis and use of cash flow projection and budgeting play in the survival, taxation, and management of a small business enterprise.
Academic Supervisor: George Iatridis
Financial Science
This course of financial science explains the role of finance in business to make sure there are enough funds to operate and that money is spent and invested wisely. It shows how to keep a business operating smoothly without running out of cash while also securing funds for longer-term investments.
Academic Supervisor: George Iatridis
Product & Price Management
This course overviews company’s product portfolio management, including the task of product positioning, product development, product price, market development, brand diversification, and alternative strategies associated with the introduction, growth, maturity, and decline stages of the product life cycle. It shows the skills needed to become a successful product manager capable of dealing with all aspects of product and price management.
Academic Supervisor: Isabel del Rio Villar
Customer Relations Management
Companies are often derailed by poor customer support and management. This course explains the relationship between suppliers, technology, and customers, which together provide the infrastructure for customer support in any business environment. Managing successful relationships with customers has become a critical organizational competency for acquiring and retaining customers.
Academic Supervisor: Fernando Fernández Sánchez
Promotional Strategies
This course studies the foundations and the processes of developing advertising and promotional strategies, and the important factors used to design successful advertising campaigns. Topics include data research, positioning analysis, selection of target markets, development of objectives, creative guidelines, media planning, budgeting, and performance evaluation.
Academic Supervisor: Isabel del Rio Villar
Cost & Managerial Accounting
This course deals with the preparation, analysis, interpretation, and use of accounting information in the guidance and control of a business enterprise. It treats profit planning, budgeting, and standards. Topics include budgeting, cost-volume-profit analysis, short-run decision making, standard costing, cost accounting systems, and the statement of cash flows. It provides an analysis of accounting information for management decisions.
Academic Supervisor: George Iatridis
Financial Management
Financial management and analysis are one of the most important and valuable skills for today's managers and executives. It is essential to understand the impact of daily decision-making on an organization's financial performance. This course gives the essential tools, strategies, and tactics for analyzing and improving the financial dimensions of operating decisions.
Academic Supervisor: George Iatridis
Management Information Systems
This course analyzes information systems and their role in organizations. It focuses on the management of information resources for optimum performance. It reviews hardware, software, data storage, and telecommunication technologies, and considers the issues of emerging technologies, social and ethical concerns, security, and control. It explains the best use of computers to minimize cost and optimize results.
Academic Supervisor: Javier Fernandez Salgado
Business Law
This course focuses on issues related to the law of business in all its forms: agency, partnerships, limited partnerships, and corporations. It provides the essentials and implications of contractual and fiscal matters relating to business and entrepreneurship ventures. It explains how to deal with lawyers, accountants, tax advisors, dispute resolution, contracts, and legal considerations related to business.
Academic Supervisor: Philipose Daniel
Human Resources Management
This course examines the cost effectiveness of human resources programs in terms of culture diversity, work force management, benefits, budgets, and financial planning. It explores how to effectively utilize human resources in organizations. Topics include: human resources information systems, employee protection, management succession, and human resources strategic planning.
Academic Supervisor: Charles R. Nichols
Financial Strategic Planning
This course outlines the process for effective financial planning, including where to start, what types of budgets to prepare, and how to turn planning into a value-added activity. The objective of the course is to provide guidance for the user on financial strategic planning.
Academic Supervisor: George Iatridis
Strategic Marketing Management
This course explores the marketing strategic process; from marketing analysis and the identification of market targets, to planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas, goods, and services. It considers major issues such as negative word-of-mouth, product failure, consumerism, product liability, and deceptive advertising. This course integrates marketing challenges within a problem-solving strategic framework.
Academic Supervisor: Maria Smetanina
Business Administration & Management
This course reviews the nature of managerial economics, demand analysis and estimation, customer behavior, production analysis, estimation of cost, profit planning and control, pricing decisions, competition in different market structures, the economic role of government, investment, and financial policy. It deals with problem identification, problem solving, critical thinking, consulting, project management, and strategies for effective decision making.
Academic Supervisor: Kao Kveng Hong
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Business Administration Online via distance learning
Recommended Professional References.
Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.
Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...
ABA - Associação Brasileira de Administração
ABE - Association of Business Executives
ACEDE - Asociación Científica de Economía y Dirección de la Empresa
AEALCEE - Asociación Española de Alumnos de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
AECA - Asociación Española de Contabilidad y Administración de Empresas
AFAEMME - Association of Organisations of Mediterranean Businesswomen
AMA - American Management Association
ANEFAC - Associação Nacional dos Executivos de Finanças, Administração e Contabilidade
APD - Asociación para el Progreso de la Dirección
APDC - Association des Professionnels et Directeurs Comptabilité et Gestion
APECA - Associação das Empresas de Contabilidade e Administração
APEG - Association Nationale des Professeurs d'Économie et de Gestion
ASIBEAM - Asociación Iberoamericana de Economía, Administración y Marketing
BMA - Business Management Association
CABA - Chartered Association of Business Administrators
CEIB - Consejo de Empresarios Iberoamericanos
EBEA - Economics & Business Education Association
EDAMBA - European Doctoral Programs Association in Management & Business Administration
FEBRAD - Federação Brasileira dos Administradores
FFA - Forum Francophone des Affaires
FREDLA - Family-Run Executive Director Leadership Association
IABS - International Association For Business and Society
IAOM - International Association of Management
IBSA - International Business Structuring Association
ISBEE - International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics
ISOBL - International Society of Business Leaders
NABE - National Association for Business Economics
NBA - National Business Association
NSBA - National Small Business Association
OAM - The Oxford Association of Managers
SBA - Small Business Administration
SMS - Strategic Management Society
VBIZ - German Association of Innovation, Technology and Business
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Admission requirements - Business Administration
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...
Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...
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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education
This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...
Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
7. Age: Check the admission requirements for each distance education degree program. More info...
Duration - Business Administration Online via distance learning
For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...
All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.
Recognition - Business Administration Online via distance learning
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Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning
Business Administration Online
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
