✔️ Varna University of Management (VUM) is among the leading educational institutions with more than 20 years of tradition in the training and development of professional staff in the field of tourism and hospitality.
✔️ The bachelor’s program “Marketing and Management of Hospitality and Tourism” at VUM prepares highly qualified specialists with established market thinking and offers modern knowledge in marketing and tourism management, meeting the needs of the Bulgarian and world tourism market.
✔️ During the training period students acquire important theoretical knowledge in economics, accounting, finance, marketing, human resource management, information technology, business communication and others. The educational program also includes a variety of specialized modules that help develop students’ ability to think critically and analyze all functional areas of marketing and management and build teamwork, decision making, planning, communication, presentation, organizational culture and creative thinking.
✔️ VUM has a rich and diverse network of more than 200 active international partners, where our students can conduct the mandatory internship provided in the curriculum. In this way, they get a real opportunity to make contacts, gain skills and experience in a real environment and lay the foundations for their future successful realization.
The courses are taught entirely in English. Classes are small and encourage crosscultural dialogue and personal connections. As a leading business school in Eastern Europe, VUM has the exceptional privilege to educate students from start to graduation in programmes leading to Cardiff Metropolitan University’s British degree. And this is without the usual requirement for students to spend a year in the UK. VUM students follow a synchronized curriculum with Cardiff Metropolitan University and have to meet the same high standards in learning and examinations.
Place of study
Varna, Dobrich
Language of instruction
Bulgarian
Beginning of the learning process
October / February
Duration of training
3 years (6 semesters)
Educational qualification degree
Professional Bachelor
Form of education
full-time / part-time
Detailed information on scholarship opportunities, semester tuition fees and student loans
We at VUM offer short and clear steps for admission of candidates. The main requirements for students are high motivation and good results from the high school diploma.
In the process of admission Varna University of Management strictly follows the rules and regulations of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Bulgaria.
Full-time and part-time education.
| First year | Second year | Third year |
|---|---|---|
Module: Economics and Business Environment
| Module: Management
| Module: Alternative Tourism
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Module: Marketing and Business Communications
| Module: Introduction to Tourism
| Module: Strategic Management in Tourism
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Module: Research Methods
| Module: Hotel Management
| Module: Diploma project
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Module: Accounting and Finance
| Module: Foreign languages
| Module: Foreign languages
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Module: Foreign languages
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Module: Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship (5 ECTS)
• Project management (3 ECTS)
• International Hospitality (4 ECTS)
Module: Business Planning
• Business planning in tourism (5 ECTS)
• Project management (3 ECTS)
• International Hospitality (4 ECTS)
Module: Restaurant Management
• Restaurant management (10 ECTS)
Module: Management of special events
• Management of special events (10 ECTS)
Module: Attached project
• Attached project (10 ECTS)
* Elective modules are offered at the stated interest of a certain number of students.
Optional disciplines provide an opportunity to acquire knowledge and skills in various scientific fields in accordance with the interests of students. The study of the elective courses is not obligatory, but at the request of the students. For students who choose to study electives, they become compulsory.
• Agrotourism (5 ECTS)
• Introduction to agribusiness (5 ECTS)
• Electronic business in the agricultural sector (5 ECTS)
• Crop production (5 ECTS)
• Management consulting in agribusiness (5 ECTS)
• Computer networks (5 ECTS)
• Business applications (5 ECTS)
• Introduction to multimedia applications and the Internet (5 ECTS)
• Robonomics (5 ECTS)
• Next foreign language (5 ECTS)
• Underwater cultural heritage (5 ECTS)
• Ethnology (5 ECTS)
• Folklore (5 ECTS)
• Marine Biology (5 ECTS)
✔️ Completion of the program in Marketing and Management of Hospitality and Tourism, leading to the Professional Bachelor’s degree, gives many advantages, the most significant of which are the numerous career opportunities.
✔️ Our graduates are realized as highly qualified specialists, managers and entrepreneurs in all areas of hospitality and tourism. After the successful completion of the program, they continue their professional and career development in hotels, restaurants and hotel chains, in travel and advertising companies and organizations, marketing companies and agencies, travel agencies, national and international structures and organizations related to tourism management and marketing. .
✔️ VUM prepares its students for the highly competitive labor market by providing them with practical advice, guidance and career development opportunities. The university maintains excellent relations with business in Bulgaria, Europe, USA, etc., which is a prerequisite for conducting practice and future realization of students in various partner institutions and organizations around the world.
