University of Cyprus

Our Program Philosophy follows the scholarly practices of other prestigious departments in its discipline. It prepares future executives by cultivating the analytical, critical, and interpersonal skills, while imparting them strong ethical principles.

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The Department collaborates actively with local industry. This collaboration has both an educational and a research component. On the educational front, we organise professional development seminars and short courses aimed at middle-level and top-level managers. On the research front, we pursue joint projects on problems of immediate concern to large segments of local industry.

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Business Administration, Management, Marketing

The concentration in Management prepares students for managerial and leadership positions in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, where the need for change, adjustment, and development is constant. The major objective of the degree is to help students develop the basic skills required to deal with the challenges and opportunities presented to them in their managerial work.

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The Marketing major emphasizes the development of knowledge, skills, and analytical techniques aiming at the identification, prediction, and understanding of the needs, preferences, and purchasing behavior of individual consumers, households, and organizations. The design and implementation of effective strategic marketing plans is also emphasized. Such plans should enable a company to achieve its marketing and business objectives by utilizing productively its available resources and capabilities and by exploiting emerging market opportunities.

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This Program (part-time) is designed to meet the needs of professionals who are currently working. The aim of the Program is to enable participants to become agents of change and implant new ideas into their organizations and the broader society.

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The MBA Program has been accredited by EPAS, an international program accreditation system operated by EFMD which aims to evaluate the quality of any management program with an international perspective and, where of an appropriately high quality, to accredit it.

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The Department uses the standards set by leading international business schools and universities to benchmark its progress. At the center of its teaching philosophy is the conviction that the knowledge and tools learned in the classroom must be complemented by critical thinking skills and an appreciation for the broader ethical and social considerations in organizational decision making.

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The Department's goal is to: provide local and regional leadership in all aspects of Business and Public Administration, and to achieve international recognition as a centre of business research excellence.

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Accounting, Finance, Financial Economics

Τhis program is designed for students who want to gain specialized knowledge with the purpose of seeking employment in the areas of monetary and financial economics, either in the public or in the private sector.

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The degree in Accounting provides excellent training for a successful career in Audit firms, in the fields of accounting, auditing and taxation as well as banks, semi-government, public and other private organizations.

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Specialization in Finance focuses on consolidating the knowledge of the theoretical framework and analytical methods needed for successful financial decision-making under conditions of uncertainty prevailing in the complex, competitive and globalized business environment. Graduates with this specialization develop skills that will enable them to carry out financial activities in a wide range of organizations such as banks, insurance companies, brokerage firms, portfolio management agencies, industrial firms, commercial firms and government agencies.

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The Department's teaching philosophy is to encourage students to study economic issues in depth and with independence of mind. For this reason the emphasis in the teaching program is to help students develop strong analytical skills and acquire the ability to critically assess economic arguments. We pursue these objectives through a rigorous teaching program covering mainstream subjects based on contemporary methods of economic analysis.

The research agenda of Department faculty covers a broad range of topics in theoretical and empirical economics and in econometrics. Research areas: (a) the effects of worker migration on welfare, real wages and public good production, both in the country of origin and in the destination country; (b) economic aid to developing countries, its effects on welfare and employment, and identifying the most effective ways of providing aid; (c) the functioning of international markets in used goods and their contribution to consumer welfare; and (d) the creation of free trade areas

Economics and Econometrics, Productivity Analysis, Micro- and Macroeconomics

The programmes includes basic courses in economic theory, statistics and econometrics, mathematical economics and a variety of field courses in economics and European economics.

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It offers a degree in psychology, which allows its graduates to enter graduate programmes in order to specialize in a psychology area and practice the profession of psychology in accordance with the current legislation or follow an academic or research track. Graduates not interested or not able to continue their studies on a graduate level, can seek employment in positions, for which psychology knowledge can be useful.

he Department emphasizes on research in many areas of psychology and especially in Educational, Cognitive, Social, Developmental and Clinical Psychology, areas for which it offers graduate program of studies.

The Department of Psychology is a newly-founded and vital Department aiming to constantly be on the front line regarding teaching and research on topics of current interest. It offers a degree in psychology, which allows its graduates to enter graduate pr

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The program was created based on the current professional demands and trends in the education, clinical training of professional psychologists and school psychologists. Furthermore, the program ensures that the graduates are eligible to become licensed in

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The Program offers students a comprehensive understanding of the concepts, methods and theories related to the aforementioned cognitive areas. Candidates may hold a bachelor's degree in psychology or a related field and are interested in increasing their

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social processes typically studied in Social Psychology (intergroup relationships, interpersonal relationships, social influence, social representations, attributions of causality, cooperation and competition) have a developmental background, and conseque

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The program was created based on the current professional demands and trends in the education, clinical training of professional psychologists and school psychologists. The program is primarily based on the professional psychologists’ model of education.

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Political Science (International Relations) (M), Political Science (European Politics) (M)

The sociologist focuses upon the processes of production, reproduction and evolution of society's fundamental structures and institutions. Sociology, more than any other science, studies the behavioral and ideological changes associated with the passing of traditional society. A more perceptive and critical understanding of modernity constitutes the sociologist's basic aim.

Some of the primary research interests of the department: contemporary social and political problems, the Cyprus problem, Cypriot economic culture, ationalism, criminology, the Greek diaspora, ethnicity, human rights, ancient and contemporary political philosophy, international law, international organizations, the European Union, the relations between Cyprus and the EC and European cooperation in the Mediterranean context.

Sociology, studies the behavioral and ideological changes associated with the passing of traditional society. A more perceptive and critical understanding of modernity constitutes the sociologist's basic aim. The students of the program are familiarized w

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