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Master’s Degree Programme in Logistics: Part-time Studies

Code: YHB2025SS

Degree:
Master of Business Administration

Degree title:
Master of Business Administration

Credits:
90 ects

Duration:
3 years (90 cr)

Start semester:
Autumn 2025

Teaching language:
Finnish

Descriptions

The Master’s Degree Program in Logistics is designed for you, an engineer or business graduate working in expert or managerial positions in logistics, who wishes to expand your capabilities in leadership, planning, and development tasks in the professional field. The program delves into how digitalization and sustainability impact the logistics sector. It features a strong future-oriented content that guides you towards new ways of thinking.

At the core of the Master’s Degree in Logistics are logistical competitiveness and its development, enabling you to acquire the knowledge and skills needed for future success. A crucial future skill is the ability to identify significant changes and respond to them in appropriate ways. You will develop this skill during your Master’s studies in Logistics, and after completing the program, you will be better prepared to meet the challenges posed by the operating environment.

Show study timings by semester, study year or period

Code Name Credits (cr) 2025-2026 2026-2027 2027-2028 Autumn 2025 Spring 2026 Autumn 2026 Spring 2027 Autumn 2027 Spring 2028 1. / 2025 2. / 2026 3. / 2026 1. / 2026 2. / 2027 3. / 2027 1. / 2027 2. / 2028 3. / 2028
YHB2025SS-1001
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

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YLOM2200 Logistics Management 5 5 5 5
YLHX1570 Purchasing Management 5 5 5 5
YL00CK81 Vastuullinen toimitusketju 5 5 5 5
YL00CK82 Digitalisaatio logistiikassa 5 5 2 3 2 3
YHB2025SS-1002
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

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5 - 10
YZ00CK87 Research-based Development 5 5 5 5
ELECTIVE STUDIES

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0 - 5
YZ00CB88 Quantitative Research 5
YZ00CB90 Qualitative Research 5
YHB2025SS-1007
LEADERSHIP COMPETENCE

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20
YZ00CL56 Development as a leader 5 5 5 5
YZ00CL59 Human Resource Management 5 5 5 5
YZ00CL57 Strategic management 5 5 5 5
YZ00CL58 Financial management 5 5 5 5
YHB2025SS-1003
MASTER'S THESIS

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30
YZ00BL94 Master's Thesis, Planning 7 7 7 7
YZ00BL98 Master's Thesis, Research Writing 3 3 3 3
YZ00BL95 Master's Thesis, Implementation 10 10 10 5 5
YZ00BL96 Master's Thesis, Reporting 10 10 10 10
YZ00BB05 Maturity Test, Master's Degree 0
YHB2025SS-1004
ELECTIVE STUDIES

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15
YHTYRI
Shared Entrepreneurship Studies (For Bachelor's and Master's Student)

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0 - 23
ZZ00BC02 Idea to Business 5
ZZ00BC03 Business Coaching 8
ZYVZ0200 The Dreams+Inspiration! 3
ZZ00CQ16 Narratives of entrepreneurship 2
ZZ00CQ17 Valmiina yrittämään 3
ZZ00CQ18 JA Company Program 1 - 5
ZZ00CQ62 Yritystoimintaa kehittävät opinnot 1 - 5
YZZA1300
Learning And Competence Development (For Master's Student) 2023-2025

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0 - 17
YZZA1300-1001
Studies in Educational Sciences

(Choose 12)

0 - 12
AJ00BN75 Understanding Learning 6
AJ00BN76 The Future of Education 6
YZZA1300-1002
Developing Pedagogical Skills and Competences

(Choose 5)

0 - 5
AE00BO56 Theoretical Foundations of Special Needs Education 5
AJ00BN77 Developing Competency in Guidance 5
AJ00BN78 Equality and Equity in Teaching and Guidance 5
AJ00BP45 Versatile Online Learning Assignments 5
AJ00BP46 Video as a Pedagogical Tool 5
AJ00BY42 Accessibility in Teaching and Guidance 5
YHB2025SS-1005
CROSS-INSTITUTIONAL STUDIES

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0 - 5
YHB2025SS-1006
EUDRES

(Choose 5)

0 - 5
Total 90 30 35 10 12 18 15 20 10 0 12 18 0 15 15 5 10 0 0

Due to the timing of optional and elective courses, credit accumulation per semester / academic year may vary.

Master’s degree: The shared competences 2023-2027

Ethics

The graduating student assesses and promotes the realisation of ethical principles and values of their field of profession, taking equality and non-discrimination into account.
- Is able to promote ethically sustainable activities and the realisation of ethical reflection in their different operating environments.
- Promotes the realisation of the ethical principles and values of their field.
- Makes decisions taking individual, communal and societal perspectives into account.
- Promotes the realisation of diversity and accessibility.
- Implements the principles of responsible conduct of research and promotes their application in their work community.
- Is able to manage societally influential activities based on ethical values.

Purchasing Management
Vastuullinen toimitusketju
Research-based Development
Quantitative Research
Qualitative Research
Development as a leader
Human Resource Management
Financial management
Master's Thesis, Planning
Master's Thesis, Research Writing
Master's Thesis, Implementation
Maturity Test, Master's Degree
Proactive development

The graduating student is able to manage the development of new solutions that anticipate the future and produces new information using different research and development methods.
− Produces new information and reforms operating methods, combining competence in different fields.
- Is able to implement research, development and innovation projects and apply different research and development methods.
- Is able to develop new customer-oriented, sustainable and economically viable solutions, anticipating the future.
- Is able to analyse the current situation and anticipate the future of their field and changes in the operating environment.

Purchasing Management
Vastuullinen toimitusketju
Digitalisaatio logistiikassa
Research-based Development
Quantitative Research
Qualitative Research
Strategic management
Financial management
Master's Thesis, Planning
Master's Thesis, Research Writing
Master's Thesis, Implementation
Maturity Test, Master's Degree
Internationality and multiculturalism

The graduating student is able to develop and manage multicultural and international operating environments and networks.
- Is able to develop operating methods that take multiculturalism into account in their work community.
- Is able to anticipate the impacts and opportunities of global development and phenomena.
- Is able to interact, communicate and develop activities internationally in their own field.

Purchasing Management
Digitalisaatio logistiikassa
Human Resource Management
Sustainable development

The graduating student develops and manages sustainable and responsible operating methods in their work and promotes sustainable change in their work community and society.
- Is able to apply the knowledge and future visions of sustainable development comprehensively as a basis for sustainable solutions.
- Is able to analyse and assess systemic dependencies of complex multidisciplinary problems and the different dimensions of solutions.
- Is able to manage the search, implementation and establishment of sustainable solutions and operating models in their work communit.

Logistics Management
Purchasing Management
Vastuullinen toimitusketju
Human Resource Management
Master's Thesis, Planning
Master's Thesis, Reporting
Learning to learn

The graduating student promotes their own and their community's continuous learning and competence development, drawing on knowledge from different fields and the opportunities of digitalisation.
- Is able to assess and develop their expertise diversely and in a goal-oriented manner at different stages of their career and life.
- Is able to acquire, critically assess and produce information while taking into account the perspectives of different fields.
- Is able to develop and manage goal-oriented, continuous learning in their community.

Logistics Management
Purchasing Management
Research-based Development
Quantitative Research
Qualitative Research
Development as a leader
Financial management
Master's Thesis, Planning
Master's Thesis, Research Writing
Master's Thesis, Implementation
Maturity Test, Master's Degree
Operating in a workplace

The graduating student is able to develop and manage their work community and reforms working life.
- Is able to develop and manage multidisciplinary teams and work communities.
- Is able to develop the communication and interaction culture of work communities.
- Is able to develop and manage the comprehensive well-being of a work community.
- Utilises the opportunities of technology and digitalisation in development and management.
- Promotes the resilience of a work community.

Logistics Management
Purchasing Management
Research-based Development
Human Resource Management
Master's Thesis, Planning
Master's Thesis, Research Writing
Master's Thesis, Implementation
Maturity Test, Master's Degree
Not grouped

Master's degree: Logistics 2024-2027

Management

Students
- know how to manage according to logistics strategies
- can lead and develop organizations
- know how to manage logistics competences
- can manage and develop their own competences.

Logistics Management
Purchasing Management
Vastuullinen toimitusketju
Development as a leader
Human Resource Management
Strategic management
Financial management
Master's Thesis, Planning
Master's Thesis, Implementation
Master's Thesis, Reporting
Supply Chain Management

Students
- can manage purchasing and supplier relationships profitably
- can manage the supply chain in global markets
- be able to identify and utilize new technologies in supply chain management
- identify and take into account sustainability issues in supply chain management.

Logistics Management
Purchasing Management
Vastuullinen toimitusketju
Digitalisaatio logistiikassa
Master's Thesis, Planning
Master's Thesis, Implementation
Master's Thesis, Reporting
Not grouped
Research-based Development
Quantitative Research
Qualitative Research
Master's Thesis, Research Writing
Maturity Test, Master's Degree

Code Name Credits (cr)
YHB2025SS-1001
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

(Choose all)

20
YLOM2200 Logistics Management 5
YLHX1570 Purchasing Management 5
YL00CK81 Vastuullinen toimitusketju 5
YL00CK82 Digitalisaatio logistiikassa 5
YHB2025SS-1002
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

(Choose all)

5 - 10
YZ00CK87 Research-based Development 5
ELECTIVE STUDIES

(Choose 5)

0 - 5
YZ00CB88 Quantitative Research 5
YZ00CB90 Qualitative Research 5
YHB2025SS-1007
LEADERSHIP COMPETENCE

(Choose all)

20
YZ00CL56 Development as a leader 5
YZ00CL59 Human Resource Management 5
YZ00CL57 Strategic management 5
YZ00CL58 Financial management 5
YHB2025SS-1003
MASTER'S THESIS

(Choose all)

30
YZ00BL94 Master's Thesis, Planning 7
YZ00BL98 Master's Thesis, Research Writing 3
YZ00BL95 Master's Thesis, Implementation 10
YZ00BL96 Master's Thesis, Reporting 10
YZ00BB05 Maturity Test, Master's Degree 0
YHB2025SS-1004
ELECTIVE STUDIES

(Choose 15)

15
YHTYRI
Shared Entrepreneurship Studies (For Bachelor's and Master's Student)
0 - 23
ZZ00BC02 Idea to Business 5
ZZ00BC03 Business Coaching 8
ZYVZ0200 The Dreams+Inspiration! 3
ZZ00CQ16 Narratives of entrepreneurship 2
ZZ00CQ17 Valmiina yrittämään 3
ZZ00CQ18 JA Company Program 1 - 5
ZZ00CQ62 Yritystoimintaa kehittävät opinnot 1 - 5
YZZA1300
Learning And Competence Development (For Master's Student) 2023-2025
0 - 17
YZZA1300-1001
Studies in Educational Sciences

(Choose 12)

0 - 12
AJ00BN75 Understanding Learning 6
AJ00BN76 The Future of Education 6
YZZA1300-1002
Developing Pedagogical Skills and Competences

(Choose 5)

0 - 5
AE00BO56 Theoretical Foundations of Special Needs Education 5
AJ00BN77 Developing Competency in Guidance 5
AJ00BN78 Equality and Equity in Teaching and Guidance 5
AJ00BP45 Versatile Online Learning Assignments 5
AJ00BP46 Video as a Pedagogical Tool 5
AJ00BY42 Accessibility in Teaching and Guidance 5
YHB2025SS-1005
CROSS-INSTITUTIONAL STUDIES

(Choose 5)

0 - 5
YHB2025SS-1006
EUDRES

(Choose 5)

0 - 5