Educational goals

In compliance with the educational objectives of the class of reference, the Master's degree course in Business Management aims to offer a sound knowledge base for future managers, providing the necessary knowledge to face the continuous changes characterising today's economic and social systems. The course seeks to transfer the knowledge and train the skills needed to perform governance or management tasks in specific business areas, within complex public and private organisations, and to deal with an ever broader competitive environment, grasping the relevance of local and supra-local, national, European and global strategic dimensions, and of the systemic relationships between the entrepreneurial and institutional spheres. A peculiarity of the educational profile of the Business Management graduate is the multidisciplinary approach. This type of preparation responds to a clear market need, lying between the converging areas of management of private (profit and non-profit) and public enterprises, banking and financial intermediation, and human resources management and organisation. The approach is capable of working on systemic complexity, which is all the more effective when it is able to combine the interdisciplinary skills acquired in the areas of administration, management, and enterprise organisation with an analysis of the possible evolution of economic-social and institutional systems. The course offers a good knowledge of institutional and business systems and the processes underpinning their functioning, and is aimed at equipping students with the analytical tools essential for managerial knowledge; it also offers competences in a number of specific areas, made possible by the acquisition of interdisciplinary skills. This approach combines traditional study with an understanding of current trends in economic systems as a whole and businesses - in their strategic and operational/management dimension - fuelled by technological and digital transformation and by the adoption of a sustainability-oriented model, the foundation of the European economic and social model. The educational objectives of the study course are pursued through the following areas of learning: Interdisciplinary - multidisciplinary area. Upon completion of the course, students will have acquired knowledge that will enable them to understand and address, from an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspective, problems associated with development and innovation processes in the economic and social system in which businesses will operate, and to come up with appropriate solutions. Understanding complexity means learning to use different approaches and knowledge in a systemic manner, combining methods and making comparisons in order to increase the depth of the analysis. The aim is therefore to enable graduates to use their knowledge in the various subject areas through the combined use of a variety of tools learned through attendance of lectures and participation in seminars and workshops organised within the Master's course or by the individual lecturer, team work, analysis of business cases, classroom simulations, consultation and use of databases. Business organisation, management and finance area. Course subjects in the areas of economics and business management in the international/multinational sphere, strategic marketing, budget analysis, business financial instruments; statistics, mathematical and financial instruments and portfolio management, business organisation, human resources organisation and organisational innovation; legal sciences applied to business areas, in particular laws relating to international competition and market functioning, all with the aim of acquiring knowledge and comprehension skills in these characteristic and related areas of the degree course, through lectures, exercises, tutorials, seminars, testimonials, in addition to specific methods that may be adopted in individual courses (use of databases, IT tools, etc.). Students can also pursue these educational goals through international study and work experience (Erasmus programme, double degrees, internships in international companies). Economic, political, social, historical area Course subjects in the areas of economics and history of economic doctrines, sociology of institutions and organisations, gender studies, human resources organisation, European studies, all with the aim of offering students the possibility of choosing certain topics and approaches that will enable them to increase not only their knowledge but above all their ability to understand systemic dynamics and their repercussions on the management and organisation of companies and institutions that constantly develop relations and exchanges with the external environment. Knowledge in this specific area includes the ability to understand the dynamics and transformations taking place in socio-economic and institutional systems, at national and international levels, in particular at a European level. These skills are fundamental for the training of those called upon to implement and steer strategic decision-making processes in companies and institutions, acquiring additional knowledge beyond that of business management and economics. The possibility of choosing course subjects to complete one's study plan will enable graduates to acquire in-depth skills consistent with their individual pathway, aimed at consolidating the skills and knowledge required for their chosen field of specialisation and satisfying individual aspirations in relation to the various career opportunities arising from the Master's course. Knowledge is acquired through the following: lectures, exercises, tutorials, seminars, testimonials, in addition to specific methods that may be adopted in individual courses (research topics, workshops, use of databases, IT tools, etc.). Business management area: specialisation Through attendance of course subjects in the areas of digital business management and ICT, change management and business organisation, marketing of financial institutions, sustainability of businesses and economic systems, management of public services, business workshops focusing on marketing, finance, asset allocation, raising both knowledge and skill levels (disciplinary and non-disciplinary) and the ability to understand business and competitive dynamics, the aim is to acquire specific tools dedicated to understanding the dynamics in certain areas of the economic and production system. This specific knowledge includes the management of ICT and digital enterprises and finance companies, the strategic inclusion of sustainability in the management processes of enterprises and institutions, organisation of human and corporate resources to support change management, management of public service enterprises and institutions. These competences will perfect the student's ability to adopt conceptual and operational tools (toolbox) introduced by the Master's course, enabling students to acquire the necessary skills to solve management, administrative and organisational problems within complex structures in a dynamic milieu, taking into account economic and social globalisation, continuous product and process innovation, economic, environmental and social sustainability, also from a gender perspective, and to assess the effects of strategic, governance, management, planning and control measures and the impact of long-, medium- and short-term corporate projects, set in different local, national and international contexts. In brief, the Master's degree course seeks to provide advanced theoretical and methodological training for Business Management graduates to make strategic choices that are consistent with the competitive environment in which they will be working as professionals or managers, and implement these choices through the organisation of the main business functions. The various learning areas have been structured in such a way that upon the completion of their studies Business Management graduates: - will have acquired an in-depth knowledge of management processes and of the rationale behind business decisions, - will have completed knowledge of the four "languages" of business management - legal-institutional, economic-political, quantitative and economic-business - and be able to apply this knowledge in the main functional areas of business management, - will have acquired an adequate command of the quantitative tools used to analyse processes and decisions in the specific areas of application of the various course subjects, - will be able to measure, illustrate and monitor the company's main management and strategic phenomena, and to autonomously acquire the information needed to interpret economic phenomena and address resulting business issues, - will be able to interact with the different stakeholders and communicate information and results to them, taking into account the level of specialisation and competence of the interlocutor and their role; - will have acquired the cognitive tools and propensity for the continuous growth of knowledge and know how to learn through direct experience but also by trying out new educational methods, - will be able to instantly settle in the workplace, having acquired transversal, non-disciplinary, practical, relational and organisational knowledge. The proposed educational path is divided into four semesters, in which a core set of subjects aimed at providing a sound methodological foundation is supplemented by a set of varied multidisciplinary subjects. In-depth studies are planned in the areas of management training, economics and management of financial intermediaries and corporate finance, human resource management issues and organisational behaviour. In addition to specialist knowledge, transversal disciplinary skills, relating to the environmental sustainability of production processes, sociology, digital technologies, information system management, statistics and social research, and transversal non-disciplinary skills, acquired through workshops and case studies, individually and through group work, with searches and analysis of databases, presentation and discussion of results, are also offered to students. This multidisciplinary approach enhances the way scientific disciplines that contribute most to defining the specialist profile of the Master's degree course are taught. The many differences, in terms of competences and areas of research recognisable within the same subject area, become an integral part of the specialisation pursued within the Master's degree course. The specific goal is to enable students to acquire the necessary skills to understand and interpret, in the light of the changes brought about by globalisation and European integration, the complex processes of development and innovation within the national and international economic-productive system. The course of study concludes with the drafting and discussion of a thesis prepared personally by the candidate under the supervision of one or more lecturers, its content consistent with the educational path being pursued.

Career opportunities

Entrepreneur or Manager. Public and private enterprises and organisations, large or small-medium, operating in the various sectors of activity (production, services) as entrepreneur, taken to mean an initiator of new business activities, leader of organisations and promoter of their modernisation, or as manager of the business activity as a whole, be it private profit or non-profit or public.

Admission requirements

For admission to the Master’s Programme, students must hold a bachelor’s degree (which may be a bachelor’s degree obtained according to the regulations in force prior to Ministerial Decree 509/1999), or a three-year university diploma, or another qualification obtained abroad, recognised as suitable by the competent bodies of the University. Admisison to the course also requires knowledge of at least one foreign language to level B2 or higher according to the European classification. The meeting of curricular requirements and the adequacy of the student's initial preparation is also needed for admission. The curricular requirements are the skills and knowledge acquired by the student in previous educational paths, expressed by the number of credits in specific scientific and disciplinary fields, in particular: - at least 18 CFUs in one or more of the following SSDs: SECS-P/07 and SECS-P/08; - at least 12 CFUs in one or more of the following SSDs: SECS-P/01 and SECS-P/02; - at least 12 CFUs in one or more of the following SSDs: SECS- S/01 and SECS-S/06; - at least 12 CFUs in one or more of the following SSDs: IUS/01, IUS/04 and IUS/09; - at least 3 CFUs in computer science as indicated in the Academic Regulations of the study course, which also asets out the procedures for verifying curricular requirements. The latter also outlines procedures for verifying language knowledge and the adequacy of the student's initial preparation, which must be such as to demonstrate a mastery of basic notions and tools in business disciplines and qualitative and quantitative methods used for the economic administration of companies, and knowledge in the economic, statistical-mathematical and legal sciences fields.