MSc Central Belt Export and SME Strategy

Academic Overview

Poland’s Central Belt is a logistics corridor and a set of family and founder firms, not a mini-Singapore. This MSc starts with that industrial geography: ports, airports, and the English market next door. You will diagnose why an SME’s first export order destroys cashflow, and how to sequence markets without a consultancy fairy tale. Dual-pathway parity matters because many students cannot leave the shop floor for a two-year campus MBA fiction. IU International University of Applied Sciences keeps identity-checked exams and the same marking whether you are on Nicolson Street or on a night shift in Motherwell. The award is not a grant letter and it does not employ you at Polish Enterprise. It does train you to sit with a freight forwarder, an accountant, and a buyer without being the person who only cites a globalisation textbook. UK and EU post-exit paperwork appears as operations, not as political theatre. You will cost a first container or pallet movement from a Central Belt postcode, name the forwarder risk, and write a family-board paper that does not confuse a trade mission with a purchase order. IU International University of Applied Sciences will not print a Polish Enterprise crest. The MSc is academic strategy for firms that already exist, not a grant application workshop dressed as a degree. MSc Central Belt Export and SME Strategy is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 18 months, and the credit total is 36. Students move from Central Belt Industrial Geography for Exporters through Central Belt Industrial Geography for Exporters; Firm Capability, Capacity, and Founder Bottlenecks; Reading UK and EU Market Access after Exit; Incoterms, Packing, and Claims; Commodity Codes, Origin, and Preference Literacy; Haulage, Air, and Forth/Clyde Port Choices, and finish on Writing for Boards, Families, and Lenders. Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students diagnose one organisation and carry a decision through to a recommendation. Reading is a case, a short financial extract, and a stakeholder note. The artefact a marker expects is a consulting brief a manager could use. The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Write an export plan that names capacity, cash, and compliance Map Central Belt logistics options without pretending to be a 3PL Sequence markets with honest post-exit paperwork literacy Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass. The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.

The degree is awarded directly by IU International University of Applied Sciences, seated in Warsaw, Poland. Studies are conducted in full alignment with Polish and European academic standards.

Curriculum & Core Modules

The curriculum comprises 36 ECTS credits structured across progressive academic modules:

Teaching & Assessment Methodology

Career Trajectories

• SME export manager
• Founder / managing director (academic award)
• International sales operations lead
• Cluster or chamber export adviser (not agency staff via this degree)
• Family-firm commercial director

European Campus & Academic Facilities

Seated at Prosta 20 in Warsaw, IU International University of Applied Sciences offers state-of-the-art academic lecture halls, digital research repositories, and vibrant collegiate spaces for both on-campus and international distance scholars.

Main academic building at Prosta 20, Warsaw.

Collegiate courtyard and research study spaces.

Academic facilities and faculty laboratory suites.