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FACULTY OF BUSINESS STUDIES

BURGAS FREE UNIVERSITYwww.bfu.bg

The Mission of the Faculty of Business Studies at Burgas Free University

is to provide the highest quality business education that will develop

the business leaders and managers of tomorrow!

A Great Place to Study and to Plan Your Career!


Dear prospective students,Welcome to the Faculty of Business Studies at Burgas Free University located in the heart of the beautiful Black sea city

Burgas! Аs the modern business world requires smart and sophisticated thinking, argumented and confident decision-making and cutting-edge performance, our Faculty of Business Studies is striving to produce graduates with exactly those qualities and to help them excel in their choosen careers.

Become part of our big and diverse academic community!

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Prof.Dr.Petko ChobanovDean of FBS

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Lina AnastassovaVice Dean of FBS


WHY CHOOSE OUR FACULTY?

We offer:

An excellent teaching quality

An award winning campus

Flexible course choices

(after the 2-nd year)

A helpful and friendly academic staff

An exciting student social life

(salsa club, theatre studio, folk dance

club, music band, various students events,

2 student cafes etc.)

Very good and modern sport facilities

The Faculty for Business Studies is also easy

on your pocket - the tuition fees and the cost

of living are relatively low compared to other

business faculties in the big cities -

Sofia and Varna.

The students of Burgas Free

University have access to cutting

edge learning resources,

including IT and library facilities

plus several cafes, a book shop

and brand new fitness facilities.

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“We encourage students to be motivated individual learners, working autonomously whilst becoming part of our large academic community.”

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Lina Anastassova Vice Dean of the Faculty for Business Studies

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMMES

All of our 4-year programmes - Finance, Marketing,

Accounting and BA/Management offer a flexible

degree structure that enables the students to build up

a broad knowledge base and also to specialise in an

area that particularly interests them. The organization

of the educational process and the teaching methods

conform to the ones applied in the leading universities

in Western Europe and USA.

What can you expect in your first 2 years?

Students are supposed to cover during the first

four semesters 120 credits from all subjects in the

curricula - 20 subjects.

From the fifth semester begins the specialization.

During the first and second year students take the core courses which build their

basic economic knowledge in the fields of Macro- and Micro Economics, Maths,

Informatics, Statistics, Accounting, Basics of Management, Marketing, Sociology of

Economy, Organisational Behaviour, Basics of Law.

Law.

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What happens next - your 3-rd and 4-th year?

FINANCE

ACCOUNTING

MARKETING

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION / MANAGEMENT

From the 5-th semester begins the specialization in four business knowledge fields:

After the 6-th semester every full-time student takes a 45-days placement in a company operating on the Bulgarian market. This is concentrated learning experience designed to consolidate critical analytical skills and to deveop reflective learning and interdisciplinary perspectives.

The placement aims to integrate the students into a work environment and

provide them with experience of work place structures and demands.

The 4-th year finishes with a written state exam and the total credit amount for

the Bachelor’s degree programme is 240.

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMMES

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MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAMMES

The Faculty offers 4 major Master’s degree programmes which cover the main

demand for business education in the contemporary society.

Master’s Degree in Finance

The financial degree focuses on the knowledge and skills required for the efficient

management of a company’s finance resources. The students will study modules

examining how firms raise and utilize finance in the short, medium and long-term

perspective, together with the financial opportunities provided by the global

financial market. The subjects to be covered are Financial Engineering, Bank

Management, Financial Control and Auditing, Public Finance Management, Financial

Strategies of RU, Business Games etc.

The accounting degree is designed to help the students develop the techniques and

skills needed by accountants in the business and public sector. In addition to

studying core modules covering financial and management accounting, the students

learn a range of subjects including Taxation Law, Financial Control and Auditing

Standarts, as well as accounting for different sectors of the economy: insurance,

transport, agriculture.

Master’s Degree in Accounting

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Master’s Degree in BA/Management

The BA/Management degree curriculum is designed to provide the students with the

general skills required to maximise their potential as a manager.

The course combines theory and practice and during the study a range of important

management issues and problems will be taskled by simulating business situations

in operations, Human Resource Management, Finance etc. Among the subjects are

Financial Management, Operations Management, Strategic Marketing, Investment

Management and Financial Engineering.

Marketing is a growth subject area at the Faculty of Business Studies at Burgas Free

University. The Master’s Degree curriculum offers the students a great opportunity

to acquire a wide range of managerial knowledge and skills in the field of Consumers

Goods Marketing, Services Marketing, B2B Marketing, Web-Relationship Marketing,

Management Games and Simulations, Multimedia and Computer Animation,

Marketing Management etc.

Master’s Degree in Marketing

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MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAMMES


CAREER PROSPECTS

After graduation our students find employment in at management level within

the industry or commerce, services sector - banking, insurance, transport, tourism

and travel sector, public sector services and local and central administration.

All multinational companies operating on the Bulgarian market have employed

hundreds of our former students. Take a look at our alumni from all Degree

programmes at our website.

Dimitar MitevMaster’s Degree in Marketing, 1997Current Position: Regional Manager Balkans, Procter & Gamble Romania S.R.L.Previous Positions: Supervisor Sales, Caven Iradis - Bulgaria; Manager Key Accounts - Procter & Gamble Bulgaria, Plovdiv; Sales Manager for Western Bulgaria, Procter & Gamble Bulgaria

Tanja BozilovaMaster’s Degree in Accounting, 1999Current Position: Owner of Accounting Agency “Titan 2000”, which was established soon after her graduation

Rumen ZeliazkovMaster’s Degree in Marketing, 1998Current Position: Sales Manager for Bulgaria, Petrol ADPrevious Positions: Director “Key Accounts”, Kulvacha AD; Regional Manager - Stara Zagora, Petrol AD; Supervisor Sales for West Bulgaria, Petrol AD

Dimitar BubovMaster’s Degree in Accounting, 2001Current Position: Branch Manager of United Bulgarian Bank, BurgasPrevious Positions: Branch Manager MKB Unionbank, Burgas; Branch Manager MKB Unionbank, Stara Zagora

Jancho GonchevMaster’s Degree in Finance, 1999Current Position: Financial Manager - ET Confidence

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The academic staff of the Faculty of Business Studies includes 30 lecturers and

assistants in all teaching subjects. A big part of our lecturers took part in different

upgrading cources and training in other countries and have been visiting lecturers

in other universities. Every year the Faculty welcomes visiting professors from our

partner universities in Germany, UK, Portugal, Spain, Turkey etc.

As the modern business world requires sophisticated thinking, confident decision

making and cutting edge performance, the Faculty for Business Studies is striving

to produce graduates with exactly those qualities and to help them excel in their

chosen careers. Our programmes and academic staff don’t focus purely on academic

theory - though that’s obviously a crucial part of studying with us - you’ll be putting

what you learn into practice with practical work - course projects, assignments,

applied tasks, seminars.

Our website - www.bfu.bg is also an exellent source of further information about

the profile of our academic staff.

ACADEMIC STAFF

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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

The Faculty of Business Studies has signed

agreements for cooperation and has been working on

joint projects together with universities such as the

University of Barcelona, The University of Liverpool,

The Technical University in Chemnitz - Germany,

Sheffield Hallam University in UK, The University

College Cork in Ireland, the Finance Academy under

the Government of the Russian Federation in

Moscow, and Trakya University in Edirne, Turkey.

The lecturers and assistants of Faculty of Business

Studies participate regularly in scientific conferences

of the partner institutions.

The academic staff of FBS was involved during the

last 15 years in a big variety of international projects

over the schemes of TEMPUS, PHARE, ACE PHARE,

Research Support Scheme, Leonardo da Vinci,

6-th and 7-th Frameworks programmes of EC.

The Faculty of Business Studies is well-regarded

for the academic quality and practical emphasis

of the business and management courses it offers

and on that reason it is a long-term partner of

the Bulgarian branches of many big international

companies like Mercedes, Citroen, Toyota, Shell,

Danone, OMV, Procter& Gamble, Henkel, Metro,

Kaufland, Societe Generale Expressbank and others.

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ERASMUS EXCHANGE

The Faculty has Erasmus exchange with

the University of West Schottland

(Paisley, Schottland), the Polytechnic in

Beja (Portugal), the Technical University

in Chemnitz- Germany, the University

in Tartu-Estonia and the High School for

Business in Prague. Since this year the

Faculty has signed an agreement for

teachers’ and students’ exchange with

Hallich University in Istanbul.

The majority of the academic staff

visited as lecturers the partner

institutions and a lot of foreign

professors had lectures in the Faculty

for Business Studies.

Many students take the opportunity

to go on exchange in these universities

and have added new knowledge in their

learning fields but in addition a new

intercultural experience as well.

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RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Our academic staff is very active

in the field of research and

scientific activities. The subjects

of the research projects are all

important problems and aspects

of contemporary regional,

national and global markets.

Every year the Faculty of Business Studies organizes

and hosts a big international conference on

different financial, marketing and other managerial

problems and challenges which the managers at

different levels are facing. Papers and research notes

have been presented by academics and researchers

from Germany, UK, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus

and all Bulgarian Universities and Business Schools.

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We enjoy close research and educational links with other universities in Bulgaria

and Europe.


ACADEMIC SERVICES AND FACILITIES

We at Burgas Free University and the Faculty of Business Studies are proud of our

supportive academic community and the variety of resources on offer to our

students. Studing at university level requires the students to manage their time

effectively and take responsibility for their studies.

A full range of resources and services are available to help the students to improve

their study methods. The students have at their disposal a rich library, well equipped

study rooms with state-of-the arts PCs and free Internet access.

For the international students the University offers intensive courses in Bulgarian before the start of the academic year.

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STUDENT LIFE

Burgas is a friendly and lively university city.

The students at Faculty for Business Studies enjoy a wide range

of facilities for leisure and entertainment.

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Contact details:

For the entry requirements and study programmes:Assoc.Prof.Dr. Lina Anastassova - Vice Deane-mail: [email protected]

For the applications and finance: International Relations DepartmentMs. Valia Pavlovae-mail: [email protected]


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