Honours Programme Aviation Management
This programme broadens your perspective on aviation management and helps you better understand airline business models, infrastructure, airspace and societal conditions. The knowledge that is needed to tackle the increasing capacity challenges that aviation is expected to face as it continues to grow in the decades ahead.
Programme Outline
- Credits: 30 ECTS (one semester) or 60 credits (full academic year)
- Format: lectures, workshops, conference organisation
- Term: autumn semester (beginning of September-end of January) or full academic year (September-July). You can apply to do an exchange for the winter semester or the full academic year, not for the spring semester only. If you opt for the full year, your research project may satisfy your home institution’s final project/thesis requirements
- Course completion certificate: you receive a certificate providing proof of your excellence to future employers
Important dates
Autumn semester
- Mandatory introduction & kick-off: first week of September
- Start programme: first week of September
- End programme: last week of January
Spring semester
- Mandatory introduction & kick-off: first week of February
- Start programme: first week of February
- End programme: last week of June / first week of July
| Honours Programme Aviation Management | Component code | ECTS |
|---|---|---|
| Epistemology: Aviation Systems Critical Critical Literature Review | 8900EPIS20 | 2.5 |
| Epistemology: Presentation of Findings and Fact sheet assignment | 8900EPIS20 | 2.5 |
| Research Methodology: Capacity development | 8900RESM20 | 1.67 |
| Research Methodology: Presentation of findings | 8900RESM20 | 1.67 |
| Research Methodology: Presentation of findings Main port strategy | 8900RESM20 | 3.33 |
| Aviation Management Conference | 8900RESM20 | 3.33 |
| Academic Skill Development: Aviation Business | 8900ASKD20 | 4 |
| Academic Skill Development: Middle Management | 8900ASKD20 | 3 |
| Academic Skill Development: Negotiation | 8900ASKD20 | 3 |
| Academic Skill Development: Personal Development Plan | 8900ASKD20 | 5 |
| Honours Programme Aviation Management | Component code | ECTS |
|---|---|---|
| Epistemology: Aviation Systems Critical Critical Literature Review | 8900EPIS20 | 2.5 |
| Epistemology: Presentation of Findings and Fact sheet assignment | 8900EPIS20 | 2.5 |
| Research Methodology: Capacity development | 8900RESM20 | 1.67 |
| Research Methodology: Presentation of findings | 8900RESM20 | 1.67 |
| Research Methodology: Presentation of findings Main port strategy | 8900RESM20 | 3.33 |
| Aviation Management Conference | 8900RESM20 | 3.33 |
| Academic Skill Development: Aviation Business | 8900ASKD20 | 4 |
| Academic Skill Development: Middle Management | 8900ASKD20 | 3 |
| Academic Skill Development: Negotiation | 8900ASKD20 | 3 |
| Academic Skill Development: Personal Development Plan | 8900ASKD20 | 5 |
| Graduation Research | 8900AFAM20 | 30 |
Since you will be working closely together with other students in the programme, and since all courses are inter-related, please note that you will be required to take all of the above-mentioned courses. It is not possible to opt for a sub-selection of courses.
Notes
If you are accepted by AUAS Aviation Academy, you will be required to submit your learning agreement. Please note that:
- your Learning Agreement should have a signature from your home institution; and that
- you should mention the course names, component codes and amount of ECTS on the Learning Agreement, according to the table provided above under ‘course details’.