Semester 1

• [6 ECTS] Research Methodology
  The main goal of this course is to develop research methods and techniques that are used in studies of agribusiness. This course will help students to improve their analytical skiles, and to use different research methods in the field of agribusiness. The main focus will be on application of research methods, that the business communities face in the field of agribusiness in the internal market and in the global market. This course will also examine the role of research methods, its theoretical justification and their application in the field of agribusiness. Finally, this subject will enable students to use different analytical techniques and methods in their research on issues related to agribusiness.
• [6 ECTS] Management for Agribusiness
  This subject Management for Agribusiness will help students to gain specific knowledge about rural change and how managing them. Taking into account the nature of the subject, it will be practically fully adapted and special attention will be paid to practical situations faced by business organizations in the field of agribusiness in Macedonia.
• [6 ECTS] Climate Changes
  The subject includes the study of possibilities for development of ecological awareness, and the potentials and possibilities for its development. It will also study the system of managing environmental climate change, and regulations and strategic documents that lay the foundation for climate change and the need for their development. Moreover, it puts an emphasis on the environmental movement with the economic and social condition and location of climate change in the overall strategy for agribusiness. The course will try to connect conditions of climate change by promoting and protecting the environment and the concept of sustainable development. The subject will also study and compare the comparative system of eco-agribusiness in European countries and the region.
• [12 ECTS] Free elective course 1

Semester 2

• [6 ECTS] Economics of Rural Resources
  The main objective of this course is to develop different theories of regional growth and development of methods of regional analysis. This course will help students to improve their analytical skills, and to use economic theory to analyze rural and regional development. The focus will be on applying techniques and instruments that will be useful for the analysis of rural and regional development. Arguments for and against government intervention in rural and regional economies will be included within this subject. It will also examine the various policy, planning and strategies and their application in the economy of rural resources. The course will analyze the impact of government policy on economic growth and development of rural areas.
• [6 ECTS] Strategies for Agribusiness
  The subject Strategies in Agribusiness is conceptualized to enable students to evaluate and to apply the key elements of strategic analysis, choosing the right strategy within a flexible plan, and to stimulate thinking about the problems associated with implementation of the formulated strategy. The aim of the course is to help students learn to think critically about issues and problems associated with the choice of strategy in turbulent and dynamic environment and to understand that there is not only one way to develop a strategy.
• [9 ECTS] Elective course 2/1
  • Management of Information Systems
    The subject Management Information Systems aims to prepare students with adequate knowledge of information systems and possibilities for their use by business organizations. The focus within the object is placed on opportunities for using information provided by the information systems supporting managerial decision and other activities performed by the managers of business organizations.
  • Risk Management in Agribusiness
    The subject is directed to include ways to perform the quantification and management of various sources of risk by corporations. This especially concerns the scope of the financial sector, and a special emphasis is given to non-financial companies. This subject covers a broad approach to risk management in the enterprise or "integrated risk management" - the new managerial approach to risk management. Beside the other topics covered by material, a particular attention will be given to market, credit and operational risk. The subject relies to a large extent on the active application of analysis of real cases.
  • Local Rural Economic Development
    The subject Local and Rural Economic Development offers students an adequate fund of theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the field of local and rural economic development. The trainings of students go through a special emphasis on achieving the following objectives: * An appropriate use of modern economic theories in the field of local, rural and regional economic development, * Introducing to students the appropriate techniques and methods for analyzing the situation of local and rural development, * Directing students to contemporary forms of support and to stimulate the business activities of local, regional and national levels, * Indication of the role of the degree of decentralization at local level as an important factor of local development, familiarize students with appropriate strategies and policies of local and central government affecting the development of rural & urban areas and nationwide.
  • Public Finances and Agribusiness
    This course provides students with knowledge of public financeс as one of the main levers of macroeconomic policy instruments and fundamental to the functioning of a national economy as a whole and as a subsystem of an economic system of the country. The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with knowledge about the budget and extra-budgetary funds as the main instruments of fiscal policy, procedures about preparation, approving, implementing and controlling the budget, and techniques of budget at the local, and at central level.
• [9 ECTS] Elective course 2/2
  • Management of Information Systems
    The subject Management Information Systems aims to prepare students with adequate knowledge of information systems and possibilities for their use by business organizations. The focus within the object is placed on opportunities for using information provided by the information systems supporting managerial decision and other activities performed by the managers of business organizations.
  • Risk Management in Agribusiness
    The subject is directed to include ways to perform the quantification and management of various sources of risk by corporations. This especially concerns the scope of the financial sector, and a special emphasis is given to non-financial companies. This subject covers a broad approach to risk management in the enterprise or "integrated risk management" - the new managerial approach to risk management. Beside the other topics covered by material, a particular attention will be given to market, credit and operational risk. The subject relies to a large extent on the active application of analysis of real cases.
  • Local Rural Economic Development
    The subject Local and Rural Economic Development offers students an adequate fund of theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the field of local and rural economic development. The trainings of students go through a special emphasis on achieving the following objectives: * An appropriate use of modern economic theories in the field of local, rural and regional economic development, * Introducing to students the appropriate techniques and methods for analyzing the situation of local and rural development, * Directing students to contemporary forms of support and to stimulate the business activities of local, regional and national levels, * Indication of the role of the degree of decentralization at local level as an important factor of local development, familiarize students with appropriate strategies and policies of local and central government affecting the development of rural & urban areas and nationwide.
  • Public Finances and Agribusiness
    This course provides students with knowledge of public financeс as one of the main levers of macroeconomic policy instruments and fundamental to the functioning of a national economy as a whole and as a subsystem of an economic system of the country. The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with knowledge about the budget and extra-budgetary funds as the main instruments of fiscal policy, procedures about preparation, approving, implementing and controlling the budget, and techniques of budget at the local, and at central level.

Semester 3

• [6 ECTS] Marketing for Agribusiness
  This course describes the way the company achieves its marketing - goals by determining the target market using marketing strategies to successfully serve the target market. The role of marketing and marketing management in agribusiness, managing the marketing environment, managing the agribusiness market, the interconnectedness of markets agribusiness division of markets, market segmentation, evaluation of market demand, positioning of agricultural products, market demand , consumer behavior, management and marketing - mix elements, managing the pricing policy, managing the politics of distribution and sales, managing the promotion. Students are also introduced to elements of process management, planning marketing activities and marketing plans, marketing strategies, marketing tactics, the organization of marketing and marketing control and successful application in practice.
• [6 ECTS] Financial Accounting in Agribusiness
  The purpose of lecturing this subject is to assist students understand the essence of accounting. The subject financial accounting relates with the fundamentals of financial accounting. It introduces students the field of financial accounting and covers the following areas: general accounting, bookkeeping, financial statements - balance sheet and income statement, cash flow statement and statement of changes in ownership equity, assets and liabilities and so on.
• [9 ECTS] Elective course 3/1
  • Operations Management
    The study of the subject allows students to become familiar with the complex issue of managing production and services seen as a process of planning and organizing of production and services, as well as the control of the operation of production and services as a system in order to achieve the objectives of production and services in the most effective and efficient way. In this context, a particular attention is done to the following aspects of operational management: manufacturing and services as a system, scheduling system of manufacturing and services, product design and service, product quality and service, manufacturing and service program, location, capacity, manufacturing equipments, factory buildings, factory space planning, manufacturing and service processes, planning and following the production time, inventory control, the system of internal storage and transport, maintenance of equipments and buildings and ensuring the production with energy, controlling costs and organizational structure of production
  • Technological Changes in Agribusiness
    The basic structure of the subject technological changes in agribusiness has taken on added significance in the context of debates about "sustainable development", and the occurrence or more properly, re-emergence of different schools of "sustainable agriculture". It includes contents that are focused on improving aspects of technological change on agribusiness. Despite the interest in this "alternative", the agriculture is stuck firmly on the path of increasing industrialization and probably unsustainable depletion of soil, genetic resources, potash and nitrate. In many countries, it is a major consumer of more scarce water resources. The efficiency of conversion of energy is low in industrial farming systems, and greenhouse gas emissions are significant.
  • Project Management in Agribusiness
    This course describes the way the company achieves its marketing objectives by determining the target market using marketing strategies to successfully serve the target market. The role of marketing and marketing management in agribusiness, managing the marketing environment, managing the agribusiness market, the interconnectedness of agribusiness, market segmentation, evaluation of market demand, positioning of agricultural products, market demand , consumer behavior, management and marketing - mix elements, managing the pricing policy, managing the politics of distribution and sales, managing promotion. Students are introduced to elements of process management and planning marketing activities and marketing plans, marketing strategies, marketing tactics, the organization of marketing and marketing control and successful application in practice
  • Managing Sustainable Development
    The subject management with sustainable economic development prepares students with theoretical knowledge and experience in the field of sustainable development. Sustainable development is a very complex category and very dimensional and therefore the purpose of this course is: * How to achieve and maintain economic growth along with environmental maintenance, * How to achieve scientific and technical and technological development, * Managing the challenges of sustainable development, * Use of appropriate policies to achieve goals, * The use of adequate resources from within and from external financial institutions for sustainable development, * Measuring sustainable development and others.
• [9 ECTS] Elective course 3/2
  • Operations Management
    The study of the subject allows students to become familiar with the complex issue of managing production and services seen as a process of planning and organizing of production and services, as well as the control of the operation of production and services as a system in order to achieve the objectives of production and services in the most effective and efficient way. In this context, a particular attention is done to the following aspects of operational management: manufacturing and services as a system, scheduling system of manufacturing and services, product design and service, product quality and service, manufacturing and service program, location, capacity, manufacturing equipments, factory buildings, factory space planning, manufacturing and service processes, planning and following the production time, inventory control, the system of internal storage and transport, maintenance of equipments and buildings and ensuring the production with energy, controlling costs and organizational structure of production
  • Technological Changes in Agribusiness
    The basic structure of the subject technological changes in agribusiness has taken on added significance in the context of debates about "sustainable development", and the occurrence or more properly, re-emergence of different schools of "sustainable agriculture". It includes contents that are focused on improving aspects of technological change on agribusiness. Despite the interest in this "alternative", the agriculture is stuck firmly on the path of increasing industrialization and probably unsustainable depletion of soil, genetic resources, potash and nitrate. In many countries, it is a major consumer of more scarce water resources. The efficiency of conversion of energy is low in industrial farming systems, and greenhouse gas emissions are significant.
  • Project Management in Agribusiness
    This course describes the way the company achieves its marketing objectives by determining the target market using marketing strategies to successfully serve the target market. The role of marketing and marketing management in agribusiness, managing the marketing environment, managing the agribusiness market, the interconnectedness of agribusiness, market segmentation, evaluation of market demand, positioning of agricultural products, market demand , consumer behavior, management and marketing - mix elements, managing the pricing policy, managing the politics of distribution and sales, managing promotion. Students are introduced to elements of process management and planning marketing activities and marketing plans, marketing strategies, marketing tactics, the organization of marketing and marketing control and successful application in practice
  • Managing Sustainable Development
    The subject management with sustainable economic development prepares students with theoretical knowledge and experience in the field of sustainable development. Sustainable development is a very complex category and very dimensional and therefore the purpose of this course is: * How to achieve and maintain economic growth along with environmental maintenance, * How to achieve scientific and technical and technological development, * Managing the challenges of sustainable development, * Use of appropriate policies to achieve goals, * The use of adequate resources from within and from external financial institutions for sustainable development, * Measuring sustainable development and others.

Semester 4

• [30 ECTS] Master Thesis
  After passing examinations, the student may begin the procedure of filing, making and public defense of thesis topic. The student chooses the mentor, who gives him instructions for preparation of the application of master theses. The application must be granted by the Graduate Studies Educational Collegium and the Scientific and Academic Council of the Faculty. After preparing the final version of Masters Thesis, Academic-Scientific Council of Faculty forms a three-member committee, which prepares the report, which is may be accepted or rejected. The positive report is approved by the Academic-Scientific Council and it is set the date of public defense. After successfully defending the thesis, the student gains the degree - Master of Economic Sciences / Field: Sustainable Agribusiness.