Wyższa Szkoła Menedżerska w Legnicy

Wyższa Szkoła Menedżerska w Legnicy is a university in Poland.

The school was established in 1997 and has promoted over 1,600 graduates. Since 1997 the courses concerning Management and Marketing have been conducted and according to previous principle of constant development. The school is still developing and preparing new courses. The newest ones to open are Transport and Computer Science (2001) and Sociology and Architecture and City Planning (2004). Wyzsza Szkola Menedzerska in Legnica is the largest higher education institution in the region.

The university provides undergraduate and post-graduate courses in the following areas:

• Architecture and Town-Planning (undergraduate)
• Computer Science (undergraduate)
• Economy (undergraduate)
• Management and Marketing (under- and postgraduate)
• Pedagogy (undergraduate)
• Sociology (undergraduate)
• Transport (undergraduate)
• Law (prepared master degree course to be started in October)
• Philology (waiting for the Ministry's approval)

The university is going to apply for allowance to provide PhD courses in economics to the Ministry of Education in September. There are plans to establish a new course: Management and Engineering of Production.

Contents 1 Coursework 1.1 Marketing and Management 1.2 Computer Science 1.3 Transport 1.4 Economics 1.5 Pedagogy 1.6 Sociology 2 International partnerships

Coursework

Marketing and Management

In the Marketing and Management master degree course students can obtain more specific knowledge concerning:

• Enterprise Management
• Marketing
• Management within Persons and Property Security Sector
• Financial Management and Accountancy
• Quality and Environment Management

In undergraduate courses students can choose one of many provided specialties:

• Engineering of Production Management
• Engineering of Transport Management
• Engineering of Environment Protection
• Engineering of Information Systems' Management
• Quality Management

Computer Science

Students participating under graduate Computer Science course can obtain more specific knowledge about:

• Corporation Computer Networks
• Computer Systems within Management
• Engineering of Computer Security

Transport

Those who choose Transport undergraduate course can participate in following specialties:

• Logistics and Transport Technology
• Vehicles and Transport Mechanisms Exploitation

Economics

While studying Economy (undergraduate level) students can specialise in:

• Accountancy and Taxes
• European Economy
• Management of Local and Regina Development

Pedagogy

Pedagogic undergraduate course covers the following areas:

• Tutelary and Educational Pedagogic
• Education Counseling
• Integrated Pre- and Primary Education

Sociology

While participating Sociology undergraduate course students can obtain specific knowledge about:

• Public Safety
• Social Service Security
• Sociology of Market Behaviour

Legnica University of Management awards bachelor and master degrees. Courses can be chosen from part time and full time ones. At the moment there are about 3,000 students participating in courses provided.

Aiming on providing high level of conducted courses the University is introducing modern didactic forms and employs specialists from well-known Polish educational institutions and from abroad. At the moment there are 155 academics co-operating with the University - 16 professors, 22 habilitated doctors, 67 doctors.

The school possesses its own buildings and to ensure development and high quality of education, all classes are fully equipped. There are also computer and specialist laboratories and a library.

The recruitment process is based on the results of secondary school finishing exam (matura) and interview, and in case of Architecture and Town Planning also on results of exams on: drawing and knowledge of art and architecture.

International partnerships

Legnica University of Management participates in many national and international activities. The university has partners from many foreign countries.

• The university is participating in Tempus programme Master of Business Administration & Information Technology that is based on cooperation with eight partners from Ukraine, Germany, Spain, France. The project was aimed on preparation of teaching programmes to educate specialists (master degree) in the area of organisation management.
• Another academic unit that is co-operating with Legnica University of Management is the University of Lwow. The co-operation is aimed on joint research, exchange of students and tutors.
• There has been a strong and fruitful cooperation with the Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale in Dunkirk, France (since 2002) that consists of tutors, students exchange, united research efforts, documentation within tuition process, joint learning programmes, help within management and development of libraries. In June 2004 the first graduation of 33 Polish students participating in the courses within Maitrise de Superieure de Techniques en Management de l'Enterprise programme took place.

• The university is cooperating with the University of Pennsylvania in the area of multicultural theory of leadership with 61 academic units from all over the world. Since 2001 Legnica University of Management is cooperating with academic units in Ukraine. The long-term cooperation is aimed at student exchange, tutor exchange, small business development, organisation of science conferences and seminars, joint applying for grants. The students of the Legnica University of Management, according to sign documents, were participating in the summer language courses of Ukrainian language.

Among the major short-, medium-, and long-term priorities Legnica University of Management plans to:

• Enlarge European dimension in every of four faculties of the university, realisation of its aims within curricula and their structure - the one of the steps of that action would be introduction of the ECTS system and introduction of language courses in non-language learning degrees
• Participate in European projects considering students and staff mobility. One of the first actions was applying and receiving the Erasmus Charter. The next one would be establishment of the International Relations Office
• Establish and enrich cooperation with present and new partners
• Enlarge the number of visiting staff
• Promote Open and Distance Learning as a new method of teaching (the university is equipped to conduct ODL courses)
• Popularisation of European programmes among the students, staff, and local organisations, encourage to participate in international initiatives, informing about possibilities to obtain European financial support

The university has been putting a special accent on all actions aimed on rising the level of quality of knowledge obtained by its students. The starting and conducting international projects is one of the ways to reach that goal.