Business Engineering, M.Sc.

Overview

The Master of Business Engineering prepares you to be a interdisciplinary manager with an extended problem solving toolbox and a holistic view on modern companies in today’s economic, legal and social context. 

With a capacity for analytical thought, management and communication skills and an eye for sustainable opportunities, you will be able to shape the future of companies and organisations.

Programme outline

The Master of Business Engineering contains a number of required courses and a major and a minor of your choice. These allow you to deepen your knowledge in specific business domains. The Master’s Thesis is most often written in the domain of the chosen major, but you can also select a topic in the domain of Data Science and Business Analytics.

Majors offered include:

• Accounting and Financial Management
• Risk and Finance
• Marketing
• Production and Logistics
• Data Science and Business Analytics
• Industry, Global Value Chains and New Technologies
• Technology and Entrepreneurship.

Strengths

• A substantial variety of choice in majors and minors allows you to create your own profile in line with your disciplinary future self. In addition, you can add a project or internship into your curriculum.
• Boasting a variety of skills, business engineers are much sought-after by a wide range of companies for various positions and sectors. Because of their broad background in business and the function of (technological) innovation processes, graduates tend to easily find a job. They can also refer to the Career Corner, the faculty’s integrated platform for internships and the labour market. 
• International experience: We encourage you to study abroad at one of the faculty’s exclusive partner universities in the first semester of the second year, as part of the Erasmus+ programme. Increasingly, employers value young professionals who are familiar with doing business in a multicultural and multilingual setting. The faculty keeps up a strong international focus with a flourishing participation of students in summer schools and exchange programmes, making your experience truly international.

Objectives

A business engineer is trained for analyzing and solving business problems from a quantitative and managerial point of view. The programme belongs to the domain of business economics and is management oriented: students learn how companies function, how business processes should be designed and how business activities can be optimally organized. The managerial focus is combined with strong analytical skills and a profound understanding of how business and (technological) innovation processes work.

This integration of disciplines is of high relevance to production environments as well as to service companies (e.g. consultancy or ICT). A business engineer is an interdisciplinary manager with an extended problem solving toolbox and a holistic view on modern companies in today's economic, legal and social context. With a capacity for analytical thought, management and communication skills and an eye for sustainable opportunities, business engineers are able to shape the future of companies and organisations.

Career perspectives

Graduates of this programme take up vital managerial and research positions in business, national and international institutions, and universities. 

Business engineers usually start their careers in technical expert positions within interdisciplinary management teams, they are typically hired to optimise production processes, to develop quantitative models in financial institutions, or to market technological innovations. They also quickly move up to executive functions in various business domains in companies and organisations. Given the variety of skills acquired, they are highly sought after by a wide range of companies - from start-ups and small firms to multinational corporations - for various positions at home and abroad.

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