About Department
The Department of Business, Trade, and Logistics was established in 2017. It provides education for bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the speciality of «Entrepreneurship and Trade» and Educational Programs such as «Entrepreneurship, Trade, and Exchange Activities» (bachelor’s degree), «Logistics and Customs Affairs» (bachelor’s degree), «Entrepreneurship and Business Technologies» (bachelor’s degree), «Entrepreneurship, Trade, and Exchange Activities» (master’s degree), and «Entrepreneurship, Trade, and Exchange Activities» (Doctor of Philosophy degree).
The department is headed by Professor Maryna Mashchenko, Doctor of Economics. Faculty members and students of the department are members of the Kharkiv branch of the Ukrainian Society of Commodity Scientists and Technologists (USCST), which is part of the International Association of Commodity Science, Innovation, and Sustainability (IACSIS).
The education provided to graduates equips them with comprehensive knowledge and practical skills necessary for engaging in professional activities related to the organization and functioning of entrepreneurial, trade, and exchange structures, both at the national and international levels. This preparation enables them to achieve high economic and social results.
Entrepreneurship and trade involve creative organizational and economic activities aimed at achieving success in business, trade, and logistics under market competition conditions through strategic planning and quality management of goods and services to optimize their promotion from producers to consumers.
Throughout their studies in Entrepreneurship and Trade, students will explore over 60 educational disciplines, categorized into several blocks. The first block includes humanities disciplines such as the history and culture of Ukraine, Ukrainian language (for professional purposes), foreign language, and philosophy, aimed at expanding students’ worldview and developing their creative personality.
The second block includes natural science and general economic disciplines, such as microeconomics, macroeconomics, economic theory, economic statistics, economic informatics, optimization methods, and models.
The third block comprises professionally oriented disciplines focused on the professional training of higher education recipients and the formation of their economic thinking. This includes fundamentals of entrepreneurship, commodity science, exchange activities, enterprise economics, management basics, marketing, finance, money, and credit, accounting, trade economics and organization, commercial entrepreneurship, innovative entrepreneurship, and startup project management. There is also an opportunity to study in groups where all educational disciplines are taught in English.
The knowledge gained through the curriculum forms a system of theoretical knowledge, applied skills, and abilities in using main principles of applied economics, methods of organizing productive economic activities, and quality management of goods and services. This prepares students to address specific economic challenges, taking into account the current stage of economic development.
Graduates in «Entrepreneurship and Trade» have several advantages, including the ability to establish and competently develop their own business in the manufacturing and trade sectors, provide quality services, and conduct operations on commodity exchanges. They can also perform general management functions within the company, combine the study of economics and law, entrepreneurship, logistics, management, and information and computer technologies, along with a range of «social» disciplines covering the theory and practice of socio-economic relations and business communication. They can make operational decisions within their competence, functionally and informatively prepare project solutions, and efficiently manage primary linear units (main activity) or functional (preparatory and auxiliary activities) or independent organizations that primarily do not have a management apparatus.
All these aspects contribute to the training of highly qualified experts capable of competing in regional and international labor markets.
Scientific fields
1. Enhancing the efficiency of managing trading enterprises based on intellectual information systems.
2. Improving the quality management of goods and services.
3. Modeling the development of complex hierarchical systems in the production sphere.
4. Investigating the impact of digitalization on the formation and development of enterprise competencies.
Qualifications and Areas of Specialization
– Specialty: «Entrepreneurship and Trade»
– Bachelors: «Entrepreneurship, Trade, and Exchange Activities»,
«Logistics and Customs Affairs», «Entrepreneurship and Business Technologies»
– Masters: «Entrepreneurship, Trade, and Exchange Activities»
– Doctor of Philosophy: «Entrepreneurship, Trade, and Exchange Activities»