Double degree in Aviation Management
Highlight Your Excellence in the Field of Aviation Management
Learn from Aviation Experts
Key Data
Level
postgraduate
Duration
1,5 or 2 years
Location
In Riga Campus
Credit Points (ECTS)
120 or 90
Study Form
Intake
February 2025
Degrees
Professional Master in Aviation Management and Organization Manager Qualification (TSI),
MSc Aviation Management and Sustainability (UWE)
WE DEVELOPED OUR DOUBLE DEGREE PROGRAMME THAT PROVIDES EQUAL ACCESS TO A WORLD-CLASS UK EDUCATION
Programme
Overview
This double degree program offers a unique combination of innovative educational approaches and a highly-flexible learning environment tailored to the needs of professionals in the rapidly-developing aviation industry
Director of the Programme
This double degree programme is designed in cooperation with the University of the West of England (UWE). After two years of study, students obtain degrees from both universities, as well as a fantastic learning experience.
According to British quality standards, there is a lot of group work and projects during studies. The study results will be evaluated not only by TSI lecturers but also by UWE academic staff. Students of this programme will also have access to the resources of both universities.
Internship on the premises of airports and other aviation enterprises provides excellent opportunity to experience industry operations.
Network of professionals among teachers and fellow students is one of the added values of the programme
The University of the West of England is a modern and dynamic University, based near Bristol with the new state-of-the-art learning spaces and world class teaching facilities. The University is well known for its links to leading global companies such as Airbus, and for the quality of its research. The University has over 30,000 students and more than 600 courses covering a wide range of subject areas it is one of the largest and best-known universities in the UK.
The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) has been ranked 4th amongst HEIs in the South West of England for student satisfaction by the National Student Survey (NSS) 2021 published on 15 July, 2021. As well as ranked 21 out of 121 UK institutions climbing 7 places to their highest ever position.
The University was awarded TEF gold status in the latest Government rankings for higher education providers, which is the highest rating in the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) 2018
Tutors from the industry
Within the double degree study programme framework, visiting professors and industry professionals are involved in the implementation of the programme. Meet them:
Prof. Romano Pagliari
Special Adviser to the Board of Directors at Luton Airport
Arturs Saveljevs
Member of the Board at Riga International Airport
Arturs Kokars
Director, Aviation Department at Ministry of Transport of Republic of Latvia
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Academic degree and current position in TSI: Professor at the Transport and Telecommunication Institute, Dean of the Engineering Faculty,
Previous experience: Over 20 years as a Professor at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico City, serving in various leadership roles including Academic Vice-Chancellor, Executive Secretariat of COFAA-IPN, General Coordinator for Staff Development and Educational Innovation, Dean of Higher Education, and Director of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.
Membership: Member of IEEE, collaborating with the Robotics and Automation Society. Since 2023, a member of the Latvian Council of Science as an expert in the field of Engineering and Technology – Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Information and Communication Technologies, and a member of the Engineering and Technology Expert Commission.
Academic experience: Author of numerous publications in journals such as IEEE Access, Results in Engineering, and MDPI Sensors. Supervised over 55 undergraduate theses, 11 master’s theses, and 7 doctoral dissertations at IPN, the last 2 Doctoral dissertations supervised as TSI staff.
Teaching at post- and graduate level: Courses in Robotics, Engineering Design, and Soft-Computing at both graduate and undergraduate levels.
Participation in projects: Participated in and led various research projects focused on robotics, optimization techniques, biomechanics, and mechanical design.
Research Interests: Robotics, Trajectory Planning, Soft Computing, Mechanical Design Optimization, and Biomechanics.
Awards: Recognized for innovative leadership in academia and research, aiming to advance engineering education and tackle the challenges posed by Industry 4.0.
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Academic degree and current position in TSI: Professor, Leading Researcher of the Faculty of Transport and Management, Director of the PhD study program Digital Economy and Business, Chairwomen of PhD Promotion Council “Economics and Management”
Previous experience: more than 30 years’ experience in Higher Education teaching, include 10 years (2008 – 2018) as a professor, Higher School of Social Administration in Warsaw, Poland; more than 10 years Vice Rector of Research and Development, BIA; more 12 years Director of the PhD study program Regional Economy and Economics Policy, BIA; dean of the Transport and Management Faculty, TSI.
Membership: since 2024 expert at World Bank Group (B-Ready, 2025), since 2023 expert at UN Environment Programme (GEO-7 multidisciplinary expert), since 2020 lead researcher at Eurasian Scientific Institute, member of the Scientific Council Eurasian Scientific Institute, Aktau, Kazakhstan, since 2018 member of the State Council of Emeritus Scientists in Latvian Ministry of Education and Science; since 2013 Expert of Latvian Council for Science in Business and Economics field. Member of Editorial Board of the Journals: since 2012 Economic Annals – XXI (SCOPUS, WoS); since 2017-2022 Baltic Journal of Economic Studies (WoS), Since 2018 – member of the program committee of the International Scientific Conference “Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication (RelStat)” (Scopus, WoS), since 2013 ACTA STING (ERICH plus), since 2015 De Securitate et Defensione (ERICH plus), since 2021 Green, Blue and Digital Economy etc.
Academic experience:
Author more than 110 publications, incl. 3 study books, 4 monographs and book chapters; 2015–2021 – Chairwomen of the PhD Promotion Council in Economics and Business, BIA; since 2024 Chairwomen of the PhD Promotion Council in Economics and Business, TSI; 2009-2021 Member of the Professors’ Council in Economics and Business, (BIA); Since 2022 – member of the Research and PhD Council at TSI.
Certificates by the courses (Coursera): Business Sustainability in the Circular Economy (2023, University of London); Digital Transformation (2023, University of Virginia); Doing Economics: Measuring Climate Change (2022, University of London).
Teaching at post- and graduate level: Regional Economy and Management, Theory of regional development (PhD programme, BIA); Economics security (MSc in Social Administration, Warsaw), Тransport economics (MSc in Transport and Logistics, TSI), Digital Economy (PhD programme, TSI) etc. Visiting professor at Tashkent Government Economic University (2017, 2019), Uzbekistan; University of Natural Sciences and Humanities in Siedlce, Poland (2017); Tashkent University of Oriental Study, Uzbekistan (2018); National Taiwan University, Taiwan (2018), Thomas More University, Belgium, (2022), Genoa University, Italy, (2023), Chinese Culture University, International trade department, Taiwan (2024).
Participation in projects
“Factors of development of competitiveness and efficiency of the management of small and medium sized enterprises in the local and global environment” (2016 – 2021), the Institute of Economic research and Analytics STING ACADEMY, leader researcher. “Participation of small and medium – size enterprises in the implementation of the innovation policy of Taiwan” (02/2018 – 07/2018), National Taiwan University. Awarded from Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taiwan, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan “The development of high technologies and digital waste: the experience of Taiwan and the Baltic States” (01/20204-12/20224) Awarded from Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taiwan.
Research Interests:
Regional development, Investment attractiveness, International Business, Digitalization, Transport Economy, Transport Air Pollution and Digital Waste.
Supervised Doctoral, Master and Bachelor Theses (number): Promoted 9 Doctoral, more than 100 Master theses and 100 Bachelor theses, and official reviewers of 11 PhD theses.
Awards: by the Government of Republic of Uzbekistan for the best popular science article (2018). TSI: For international Recognition and Brand Visibility, 2024.
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Academic degree and current position in TSI: Associate Professor, the Faculty of Transport and Management
Experience: 20 years’ experience as a university lecturer, several years of experience as a scientific translator at Scientific Research Institute “Micropribor”, several years worked as a school teacher
Membership:
Expert of Latvian Council for Science in Business and Economics field;
Editor of Scientific Journal Cultural Heritage & Tourist Destinations: Creative Approaches in Development, ISSN 2592-8449.
Peer reviewer of the International Scientific Journal Tourism and Innovations, University of Economics, Varna, Bulgaria. Member of Editorial Board.
Peer reviewer of the Journal of Tourism and Services, Prague, Czech Republic, ISSN 1804-5650
Member of Scientific and Editorial Committee of the Journal of scientific articles of students and young scientists Development of Modern Business within the Concept of Green Economy
Organiser of Students’ Practical Conference Students’ Practice as the Basis of Professional Competence. Organiser and moderator of working sections and workshop within the frameworks of the project Enhancing Green Economy in 3 countries of Asia, Grant agreement 598470-EPP-1-2018-DE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP – ENV2.
Teaching activity: Economic Theory; Advanced Microeconomics; International Economic Relations; Global Economy; Corporate Finance; Financial Management; Strategic Management; Project Management; Marketing; Business English.
Publication activity: Author and co-author of scientific publications for 6 years: 57 scientific articles in indexed and peer reviewed scientific journals and proceedings of scientific conferences, participated in 27 scientific conferences and round tables with reports.
Participation in projects: the European grant 1.1.1.2. “Post-doctoral Research Aid” Project id. N. 1.1.1.2/16/I/001) of the Republic of Latvia, funded by the European Regional Development Fund. Research project No. 1.1.1.2/VIAA/3/19/458 “Development of Model of Smart Economy in Smart City” the European Project Enhancing Green Economy in 3 countries of Asia, Grant agreement 598470-EPP-1-2018-DE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP – ENV2
Research Interests: The scientific interests are in the area of Smart economy, Sustainable Economy, International Economics, Human Capital, Intellectual Capital, Waste Management.
Supervised Doctoral, Master and Bachelor Theses (number): Supervision of the Doctoral Thesis; Master’s Theses; Bachelor Thesis.
Awards: three awards as the best professor of the university (Baltic International Academy, Latvia).
Award as the best presenter at the International Scientific Conference Economics and Management
Motto: “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one”.
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Block A – Mandatory Courses
| Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Multimodality | 3 |
| Decision Making Methodologies | 3 |
| Economy, International Business and Sustainability | 3 |
| Financial Management in a Sustainable Context | 3 |
| Data Analysis | 3 |
Research Seminar I  | 3 |
| Strategic Human Resource Management and Leadership | 3 |
| Engineering Project Management | 3 |
| Practice-1 | 9 |
| Practice-2 | 30 |
| Master’s Dissertation and its Defence | 30 |
Block B – Specialization Courses
| Airport Management | 6 |
| Management of Aircraft Maintenance | 6 |
| Strategic and Change Management in Aviation | 6 |
| Legal Aspects of International Trade and Aviation | 3 |
| Latvian Language | 3 |
| Labour Safety, Civil Defence and Environment Protection | 3 |
| Quality and Safety Management in Aviation | 3 |
Block C – Elective Courses (one chosen by a student)
| Marketing Management | 3 |
| Sustainable Engineering for Global challenges | 3 |
| Aerospace Risk Management | 3 |
The curriculum is module-based on weekends – three days in a row, every third or fourth week of a month. The blended learning format will allow you to choose between online and on-site studies, allowing you to continue working while studying. Please note that there are three mandatory in-person modules per semester in Riga, Latvia, with specific dates to be announced.
Sample time schedule for a weekend:
Friday from 4:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Saturday from 8:45 a.m. to 7:45 p.m.
Sunday from 8:45 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Dates for the spring semester 2024/2025
21.02.2025 – 23.02.2025
14.03.2025 – 16.03.2025
04.04.2025 – 06.04.2025
25.04.2025 – 27.04.2025
16.05.2025 – 18.05.2025
30.05.2025 – 01.06.2025
13.06.2025 – 15.06.2025
*there will be a possibility to join lectures online, but some of them will be mandatory for attendance – more information will follow
Students obtain the opportunity to spend 312 hours of professional internship joining operations at airports and other aviation field companies. Locations include premises of International Airports, e.g. Riga International Airport.
There are conditions of transferable internship credit points:
- in case of previously completed Bachelor or Master professional degree which included the same or above amount of internship hours
- if a student has worked on the managerial position in aviation industry for more than one year, this student can defend his professional knowledge in the form of a report and a presentation and it is accepted as a professional internship
In both cases students have a shorter version of the programme – minus one term (62 credit points versus 82 credit points in full version). Their tuition fee also is cut by the price of one term
Previous education
Bachelor’s degree in management, economics, logistics, transport, business management, administration, aviation transport or a related field
For Latvian, EU, EEC applicants
Step 1
- Fill in the application in the Admission system and upload:
- passport/ID card
- bachelor’s/master’s or equivalent higher education document
Step 2
- Come to TSI to sign the study agreement and take the original documents and 4 photos (3×4 cm) with you
For applicants from other countries of the World
Step 1
- Fill in the application in the Admission system and upload:
- passport/ID card
- the scan of original of the educational documents
- certificate of english language proficiency at B2 level or document on previous education in English
- Pay registration fee
- Pass your entrance tests
- Pass your Skype interview
- Wait for your education document verification (AIC document). It may take up to 30-40 working days to receive it
Step 2
- Book accommodation for a stay in Riga during studies
- Receive positively verified document (AIC)
- Print study agreement, sign and upload to the system
- Pay tuition fee
- Receive invitation
Step 3
- Book an appointment in the Embassy of Latvia and get a visa
- Arrive in Riga. If you cannot come, no worries – start your studies remotely! We will provide all the materials and online lectures, and arrive when borders will be open.
For the Winter Intake 2025, you may apply for the shorter study period – the study process only 1 year + Master’s thesis.
The application round for the master’s programme at the Transport and Telecommunication Institute is open! The first step is to fill an application at admission.tsi.lv. After you register in the system, we will contact you shortly.
| Full time | Part time | Distance learning | |
| Duration | 1.5/2 years | ||
| Tuition fee EUR/year | 6500 EUR | ||
| Tuition fee for applicants from 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 🇪🇪 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 and EEA, EUR/year | 5400 EUR |
The tuition fee must be paid in advance of each academic year. The tuition fee is paid by using an invoice. The payment can be completed by the applicant herself/himself or by a third-party by using the reference number
Once the tuition fee for the first academic year of study is paid, we will send you a confirmation email, which you can attach to your residence permit application. We encourage you to submit your residence permit application documents as soon as possible.
In addition to possible tuition fees, you are usually required to independently cover your everyday living costs. You need to show that you have sufficient means of support as well as insurance when you apply for your student residence permit.
If you have any questions about the tuition fee payment, please contact us. Contact information is provided below.
Every Friday, we offer Q&A session at a time convenient for you and in the language of your choice – Latvian, English or Russian. Book a consultation here or write/call us directly, through the contacts listed below.
Е-mail: admission@tsi.lv
Тelephone: +371 29 990 841
WhatsApp: +371 29 990 841
Skype: infotsi
