Master of Logistic and Transport

Background

Logistics and transport management is increasingly recognized as pivotal to sound decision making and organizational success in meeting business objectives. Complex challenges arise from the globalization of production and consumption; innovative, modern solutions are needed to ensure and maintain profitability and competitiveness while responding to evolving customer demands and technological developments. Furthermore, increasing environmental concerns introduce a whole new dynamic, both socially and practically, to the logistics and transport .The master’s programme in Logistics and Transport Management challenges your critical thinking and analytical skills. As a student of the programme, you will analyze real-world and theoretical problems, developing skills to design solutions for organizations operating under uncertainty and facing complex and rapidly changing markets and technologies. You will gain a strategic perspective of the relationships, flows, chains, processes, and systems comprising the international logistics and transport arena, with sustainability as a key issue.

Justification

Courses reveal how industry and government decision makers can respond to vigorous international competition, more diverse and demanding consumers, and increasing environmental concerns by applying inter organizational cooperative strategies, modern information technologies, new business processes, and contemporary analytical tools. There are excellent opportunities for designing the programme to fit your own personal interests and goals, including the possibility to undertake exchange studies in an international environment at respected partner institutions worldwide. Guest lecturers—from senior industry representatives to prominent overseas experts—share their invaluable experiences and intellectually stimulating, cutting-edge content.

The targeted group includes holders of:

Applicants must have completed a UTS recognized bachelor’s degree, or an equivalent or higher qualification, or submitted other evidence of general and professional qualifications that demonstrates potential to pursue graduate studies.

General Objectives

The MSc in Transport and Logistics provides you with the qualifications to design, analyse, improve and manage the transport and logistics systems and technologies of the future.

Whether we are involved in transporting goods and consumer durables locally or across continents, or in travelers’ mobility by car, bus, train, or bike, attaining efficiency and sustainability in our mobility system is one of the world’s most complex problems.

Society and industry keep facing large challenges regarding congestion, environment and safety, but also large opportunities based on on-going transformations related to automation, sustainability, computing, and electrification.

Specific Objectives

The MSc in Transport and Logistics at IST allows you as a student to:

• Learn by doing:apply advanced methods and engineering skills to solve real-world problems that can affect the everyday lives of people and have an impact on the future organization of our societies and industry.
• Gain breadth of knowledge:study a wide range of transport, mobility, data science, supply chain, and logistics topics focused on the interaction of technology, operations, planning, management and sustainability from several departments and divisions within IST.
• Get professionally ready:for a career as leader, specialist or generalist in private companies, industry, consultancy, public agencies or research and academic institutions where you will have the advantage of specialist competences as well as a broad knowledge of transport and logistics systems and technologies.
• Enjoy a top education:in a top-ten Burkinafaso research institution on transport and a student life

Duration of the Programme: This course is offered on a Two-year (Four semesters), full-time or online