Business Analytics - Optimisation of Business Processes Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Overview

The Business Analytics - Optimisation of Business Processes programme from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam combines the fields of operations research, data science and operations management into a track focused on improving businesses and organisations.

If you choose this track, you’ll take compulsory courses in the optimisation of business processes – including mathematical optimisation – and machine learning and its applications, such as dynamic programming and reinforcement learning.

In your first semester, you’ll take a number of core compulsory courses. During the second and third semester, you’ll focus on your own specialisation. Finally, in the fourth semester, you’ll spend six months doing an internship at a business or research institute, giving you first-hand experience of the working world.

During the programme, you’ll learn all about mathematical modelling and how to apply it in practice (including at financial institutions), how to make predictions using machine learning and statistics, how to analyse data and recognise data patterns and structures, and how to build a complete decision support system as part of a group project.

Key facts

• A Master’s degree in Business Analytics opens the door to all kinds of career opportunities. Major international companies like Google, Booking.com and KLM are all on the lookout for talented business analysts. 
• You could enter a graduate consultancy position with leading firms like Deloitte, Accenture, EY and PwC. Or you could become a data scientist in one of the many Amsterdam-based data science startups. Alternatively, why not pursue a career as a data-mining specialist or risk manager in the financial sector? Become a revenue specialist at KLM or Emirates?