The MEL Programme is designed to give you outstanding qualifications and to provide you with a wide array of both subject-specific and transferable skills so that you can experience prospects for desired positions and (re)boost your career in the Maritime and Logistics industry.
Through the MEL Programme you will gain an understanding of shipping, ports, terminal management, maritime logistics, supply chain management and shipping finance. Following extensive industry consultation, MEL has compiled a curriculum of 10 courses. The courses compose a holistic and tightly knitted, integrated, approach to the understanding and analysis of global maritime supply chains of production-transport-distribution, where ocean transportation and port and terminal management play a pivotal role.
The Full-Time MSc in Maritime Economics and Logistics (MEL) is a comprehensive one-year programme designed to equip students with essential knowledge and skills for the maritime and logistics industry. The curriculum covers topics such as shipping, ports, terminal management, maritime logistics, supply chain management, and shipping finance.
The MEL Programme is set up in blocks during which you will follow three to four courses at a time. The programme is split up into four parts.
The MEL Programme starts with an introduction to MEL, to Erasmus University Rotterdam, to Rotterdam, and the Netherlands. In this week we also spend time on the practical issues of studying at MEL and the resources that are available to MEL students. Then the real work starts and you will complete blocks 1-3 which consist of the following courses:
- Economics
- Data Science
- Management Science
- Sustainability
The second part consists of four blocks (blocks 4-7), and a trip abroad. The courses you will follow are:
- Port Management and Economics
- Shipping Economics and Policy
- Logistics and Supply Chain Management
In the third part you will complete the final blocks (blocks 8-11). You will choose a minor which will determine the third course for each block. The courses in part three are:
- Shipping and Transport Finance
- Maritime Law
- Maritime Logistics
- Choice Module: Project
The last part of the programme is dedicated to the thesis and graduation. The thesis is a major part of the MEL curriculum. Its objective is to enable students to apply the knowledge acquired in the course, through the methodological analysis of an applied maritime problem. Materials from MEL theses have been published, they are presented at international conferences, and several of them have also led to eventual PhD studies.
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