Logistics Management (M.Sc.)

The master’s program,  Logistics and Air Traffic Management, offers a research-based and practice-oriented qualification that prepares students for specialist and management roles in international logistics. In the program, attention is paid, on the one hand, to practical relevance and, on the other, to the appropriate foundation of knowledge-based approaches on a solid theoretical-methodological basis. Systems theory and systems thinking are especially important in this theoretical framework. Based on this conceptualized and coherent scientific concept, students will be introduced to issues to be explored primarily in a discursive manner and for which advantages and disadvantages can be deduced in each case. This will enable students to develop complexity-focused thinking and behavioral patterns which will ensure effective management of complicated, multi-faceted and complex tasks.

From the many different fields of Logistics Management, the focus is particularly placed on those requiring a high degree of system-related, integrated understanding of complex issues. These subject areas are consistently characterized by a high level of social and communication skills including intercultural competence. Additional content from Air Traffic Management augments the degree program, Logistics Management, to ensure that the academic program does not focus on generalities, but rather reflects a specific subject area within the inherently broad field of Logistics Management.

In accordance with this overarching objective of the program, students in the master's degree program are required to broaden and intensify their existing knowledge. The focus is on developing knowledge based on instrumental, systemic and communicative skills. Students will learn and practice these skills and competencies in the master's degree program through its curriculum and didactic characteristics. Master's students are also required to demonstrate a high level of independent learning, which will enable them to independently generate - based on existing knowledge and understanding - necessary new knowledge which can then be applied in practice-oriented projects even during their program.