The master´s degree study branch Economics and Management that is being taught in English is in correspondence with the traditional and successful Czech study branch Provoz a ekonomika, the graduates of which always have found excellent chances of employment both within CR and on foreign labour markets (rate of unemployment of the graduates of this study branch belongs to those lowest ones among the CR economic study branches (1.4 % as in the HN on February 19, 2016).
The study branch is aimed at students who are interested in the area of economics and management. It is being conceived inter-disciplinarily using the integrated economic and managerial basis, quantitative methods, ICT and the social-science disciplines connected.
The aim of study here is to prepare the graduates for the economic, managerial, entrepreneurial, administrative and other positions and activities within the bounds of both the national and international labour markets, e.g., for dealing with the managerial positions of various types of enterprises, for ruling the positions in State or communal institutions, for leading positions in organizations of all the basic sectors of economics, for entrepreneurial activities (proper), for the positions in both national and international organizations and institutions, for involvement in special communities or in non-profit sector.
The capabilities expected are based on an overview of knowledge types, e.g.,
- processes of globalization, integration and regionalization,
- econo-political determination,
- socio-cultural interconnection of the economy,
- permanently sustainable connections of the economic development,
- relevant regional, demographic and administrative problems.
In the course of their study of special courses students obtain the capabilities enabling them to concentrate on conceptual solutions of economic development in the social and environmental connections, on specification and generalization of mutual interconnection of economic processes and factors of changes of the environment development dynamics, application of legal and environmental principles in the analytical and realization stage of solution, processing and implementation of programmes and projects aimed at the support of economic (regional) development.