
MBA in International Logistics & Trade
DURATION
4 Semesters
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Part time
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TUITION FEES
EUR 2,700 / per semester *
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
* per semester. Regular price EUR 2.950
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Introduction
The online MBA course in International Logistics and Trade is a part-time programme from the Wismar University of Applied Sciences: Technology, Business, and Design (Germany).
Trade and logistics are among the largest economic sectors worldwide and highly complex. Business models and value chains are currently experiencing rapid change and digitization is creating new opportunities for mobility. Networks are becoming more intensive, while markets and trade flows are shifting. In addition, modern logistics has to cope with new challenges due to the collapse in the global world order. Climate change is putting the logistics industry under considerable pressure to innovate. Anyone who wants to enter into management here needs years of industry experience and sound specialist knowledge.
The part-time course MBA Logistics and Trade prepares you in an optimally way for the next career steps in the logistics industry. It is international in its alignment, it sits at the interface between trade and logistics, it is in English and can be studied worldwide. Via the myWINGS online campus and the study app, for the first time, professionals for example from Europe, Asia, South Africa, and Latin America can study together in one study group.
Internationally experienced professors and lecturers from Germany, Austria, Italy, and India convey the teaching content via interactive video lectures and live tutorials. The attendance seminars also offer you the opportunity to expand your skills and your personal network. bremenports provides practical relevance. As the infrastructure manager of the global ports of Bremen and Bremerhaven, bremenports brings its first-hand expertise into teaching.
„Together with WINGS, a renowned distance learning provider, we have designed the first internationally oriented part-time courses for the logistics industry.“
Robert Howe - Managing Director at bremenports
Your advantages at a glance
- International university degree “Master of Business Administration (MBA)”
- Part-time programme for professionals (mainly online)
- Flexible and practical
- In English and available worldwide
- Multimedia video lectures (on demand)
- Study app, learning platform, and live tutorials
- Access to online libraries
- Personal exchange and networking through attendance seminars in Berlin, Copenhagen and Barcelona
- Professional partner Bremenports GmbH & Co. KG
- An international team of lecturers
- Exclusive study groups and personal support

System Accreditation
Like all of our distance learning courses, the MBA International Logistics and Trade is integrated into the processes of the internal quality management system for teaching and studies at Wismar University of Applied Sciences.
Study Concept
With our flexible part-time MBA programme International Logistics and Trade, we offer you high-quality academic education using state-of-the-art multimedia communication and e-learning tools.
Our professors at Wismar University and the lecturers from the business world design and lead your courses and thus guarantee the highest academic quality.
Examinations in online modules
You can choose from several examination days per semester. The examination days take place exclusively at weekends. You can take your examinations in the online modules flexibly at one of our 16 examination locations, or worldwide at Goethe Institutes, partner universities, embassies, or public institutions. If required, you are also allowed to complete the exams at other locations.
Workshops (on-site)
Your workshops will take place on one weekend per semester.
Career Opportunities
Trade and logistics, the industry of the future: The job prospects for highly qualified specialists and managers are better than ever. Here, personalities are sought who will actively accompany the upcoming changes shaping the industry. With the MBA International Logistics and Trade, you acquire the skills to recognize current global trends, translate these into successful corporate strategies, and to shape change. Our MBA programme provides you with specialized knowledge to enable you to respond to tomorrow’s challenges of international trade and logistics in a targeted and successful manner.
If you are currently working as:
- Business Development Manager
- Supply Chain Manager
- Key Account Manager Logistics and Trade
- Category Manager
- Organisational Development Manager
- Manager of Strategic and International Affairs
- Controller
- Project manager
- Procurement and Purchasing Manager
this online MBA programme might be very interesting and challenging for you and for your further career in the fields of international logistics and trade management.
Learn all about Global Trade, Society and the Environment, International General & Strategic Management, International Economics, Trade Finance, International Supply Chain Management, Data Analytics and Statistics in Information Systems, Business Processes, and New Business Models, Transition and Change Management.
Well-founded economic knowledge meets expertise that has been tried and tested in practice: The special focus of the MBA rests on the most important trend topics of the industry. Terms such as dematerialization, digitization, and political defragmentation as well as sustainability are placed in a corporate-economic context. Learn more about the complex inter-dependencies and expand your methodological and leadership skills. Besides economic thinking, controlling, project, and process management, today's transformation processes also require creativity, innovation, and agility.
Upon successful completion, you will receive the international university degree “Master of Business Administration (MBA)” from the Hochschule Wismar, University of Applied Sciences, Technology, Business, and Design. This will equip you for the international market and qualify you for a demanding management role. Anyone studying internationally today has the very best prospects of making a career in one of the world's largest industries.
Transportation routes
- Trade - global value chains
- Intermodal freight transport
- Airfreight
- Shipping
Sectors
- Trade
- Freight forwarding
- Shipping lines
- Terminal operators
- Logistics companies
- Freight forwarding
- Ports and airports

Curriculum
The study modules and master thesis are evaluated according to international standards. A total of 90 credits (ECTS) is awarded. The study programme includes 15 modules over 4 semesters. Each semester concludes with a project workshop designed to summarise and apply the learned content. For students who need to gain 120 credits, we offer an optional semester with 30 additional credits.
The programme is taught in English. Throughout the programme, you are introduced to scenarios from your professional environment, identifying problems from the operational environment, and develop scientifically-based solutions. For further information about the content of the modules or qualification objectives please check the appropriate module in the next chapter.
Regular
1st Semester | Credits (ECTS) | 2nd Semester | Credits (ECTS) |
International General and Strategic Management | 4 | Data Analytics and Statistics in Information Systems | 4 |
International Economics | 4 | International Contract and Trade Law | 4 |
Trade Finance | 4 | Transition and Change Management | 4 |
International Supply Chain Management | 4 | Port Organisation and Management | 4 |
Global Trade, the Society and the Environment | 4 | Digitalization, Business Processes, and New Business Models | 4 |
3rd Semester | Credits (ECTS) | 4th Semester | Credits (ECTS) |
Academic Research and Writing | 4 | Master thesis | 30 |
International Tax and Customs Strategy | 4 | ||
Public Relations and Stakeholder Management | 4 | ||
Green Shipping and Sustainable Logistics | 4 | ||
Leadership and Innovation | 4 |
Credits (ECTS) in Total: 90
Optional
Additional Modules | Credits (ECTS) |
Intercultural Studies | 6 |
Business Communication | 6 |
Business Simulation | 4 |
Transfer Project | 10 |
Excursion | 4 |
Bachelor graduates with 180 credit points have the opportunity to acquire a further 30 credits in order to be admitted in an additional semester.
Credits (ECTS) in Total >> regular + optional: 120
For more information, please contact your course coordinator