The MSc in Business Administration programme teaches you how to apply scientific methods and insights to help generate solutions to complex business problems.
MASTER’S DEGREE BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION It is an honor for me to introduce you to the School of Management and Governance of the University of Twente. Our school provides high quality and attractive Master’s programmes in Business Administration, Public Administration, European Studies, Health Sciences, Business Information Technology, and Industrial Engineering and Management. Concrete topics at the core of our Master’s programmes are management and governance, administration, innovation, technology and entrepreneurship. Prof. Dr. Karen van Oudenhoven-van der Zee, dean of the School of Management and Governance What makes our Master’s programmes of high quality and attractive? - Our Master’s programmes concern themes that apply to various sectors at the very heart of our society, from healthcare and higher education, to banking, business services and industry. - The driving force behind our programmes is a combined philosophy of high tech and human touch: how can we translate principles of management and governance into innovative technologies and what are the management and governance issues related to technological developments? - We offer Master of Science degrees that represent solid scientific and professional training in each of the six disciplines. Students learn to apply scientific principles in a practical and multidisciplinary way, and get hands- on experience by participating in the research projects being conducted by our academic staff. - Our educational model is aimed at educating students in research skills, organizational skills as well as skills in designing social interventions. - We believe in high quality standards and expect commitment, enthusiasm and continuous performance from both our staff and our students. - Our Master’s programmes are characterized by an open atmosphere built on close collaboration between staff and students. We offer our students great freedom in customizing the curriculum to meet your individual preferences. In that way students can create a Master’s programme that suits their own interests and skills requirements. The School of Management and Governance prepares you for international professional practice and a promising career. Our aim is to develop the individual talent that the world needs to build a sustainable and creative future. We invite students who share this ambition to come and study with us! Welcome to the School of Management and Governance!
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master’s degree
Business AdministrAtion
It is an honor for me to introduce you to the School of Management
and Governance of the University of Twente. Our school provides high
quality and attractive Master’s programmes in Business Administration,
Public Administration, European Studies, Health Sciences, Business
Information Technology, and Industrial Engineering and Management.
Concrete topics at the core of our Master’s programmes are
management and governance, administration, innovation, technology and entrepreneurship.
Prof. Dr. Karen van Oudenhoven-van der Zee, dean of the School of Management and Governance
What makes our Master’s programmes of high quality and attractive?- Our Master’s programmes concern themes that apply
to various sectors at the very heart of our society, from healthcare and higher education, to banking, business services and industry.
- The driving force behind our programmes is a combined philosophy of high tech and human touch: how can we translate principles of management and governance into innovative technologies and what are the management and governance issues related to technological developments?
- We offer Master of Science degrees that represent solid scientific and professional training in each of the six disciplines. Students learn to apply scientific principles in a practical and multidisciplinary way, and get hands-on experience by participating in the research projects being conducted by our academic staff.
- Our educational model is aimed at educating students in research skills, organizational skills as well as skills in designing social interventions.
- We believe in high quality standards and expect commitment, enthusiasm and continuous performance from both our staff and our students.
- Our Master’s programmes are characterized by an open atmosphere built on close collaboration between staff and students. We offer our students great freedom in customizing the curriculum to meet your individual preferences. In that way students can create a Master’s programme that suits their own interests and skills requirements.
The School of Management and Governance prepares you for international professional practice and a promising career. Our aim is to develop the individual talent that the world needs to build a sustainable and creative future. We invite students who share this ambition to come and study with us!
Welcome to the School of Management and Governance!
programmeThe Master of Science in Business Administration programme teaches you how to apply scientific
methods and insights to help generate solutions to complex business problems.
All companies sometimes face complex business challenges. These may involve short-term or long-term strategies, implementing a sound business concept, HRM policy, improving financial services or introducing sustainable innovation or change.
The Master of Science (MSc) degree programme in Business Administration teaches you how to help organizations improve their operations and to solve these kinds of problems. You will work on these solutions in a challenging, high-tech environment by combining state-of-the-art theory with practical application.
You will take courses in Accounting & Financial Management, Managing Change & Human Resources, Global Strategy & Marketing and Management of Organization, Operations and Technological Innovation. In addition to the core courses, you can choose from different profiles, each with its own individual range of career prospects. As a student, this gives you unrivalled flexibility and a wide choice of courses.
proFILeSThe MSc in Business Administration does not offer specializations. The programme does include six
different profiles, or career orientations, which are described below.
Financial ManageMentThis career orientation focuses on corporate financial decisions. You will become thoroughly conversant with the modern theory of finance by applying it to real-life national and international issues and challenges. Important topics studied in this career orientation include valuation, investment analysis, corporate financing policies, financial risk management tools, financial reporting and measurement and performance analysis. You will also learn how to analyse the impact of financial management decisions on value/corporate performance.
The autumn semester focuses on the principles of modern portfolio theory, alternative methods of raising capital, the significance of capital structure and venture valuation principles, among other topics. Subjects in the spring semester include accounting principles and standards, financial statements, the pricing of financial derivatives, hedging strategies and enterprise risk management.
HuMan ResouRce ManageMentThe HRM career orientation offers you a coherent combination of general and specialized courses. In the first semester, the accent lies on the contribution of HRM to innovation, and in the second semester on innovation or HRM itself.You will learn to understand, search for and encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in both large companies and SMEs using HRM principles and techniques. You will become aware of the intricacies of employee competencies for innovation and entrepreneurship and you will be able to analyse and design HR flows for innovation and entrepreneurship. In the spring, the focus will be on understanding, researching and managing IT-enabled HRM transformation processes. You will also become conversant with sociotechnical systems design (STS).
Business Administration teaches you how to help organizations improve their operations
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inFoRMation ManageMentThe Information Management career orientation is the ideal choice for students who are interested in the nuts and bolts of this fascinating field. In the autumn semester, you will develop an integrated Information Plan for a company and learn how to design information services.Topics to be studied in this area include identifying different types of business information, the use and development of valuable business information, processes and systems of organizations, and identifying the organizational requirements of these processes and systems. You will learn how to reduce problems using management methods. But also you will learn how to analyse and design information systems that cater specifically to the needs of the financial industry.
innovation & entRepReneuRsHipThis career orientation will give you profound insight into the processes of innovation and entrepreneurship. It focuses on the management and organization of product, service and process innovations in established firms, start-ups, and networks of organizations.You will study innovation and entrepreneurship in technological and industrial contexts, looking closely at processes such as opportunity recognition, ideation, business development, corporate venturing, and collaboration with customers, suppliers, universities, and others. Relevant topics include continuous innovation, radical innovation, ambidexterity, open innovation, knowledge management, and business model innovation. This track features a pronounced international orientation and an emphasis on engaged scholarship, which combines thorough academic research with practical relevance. You will also have the opportunity to enrol in a double degree programme in collaboration with TU Berlin.
inteRnational ManageMentThe International Management career orientation is an ideal choice for students who are interested in understanding the cross-border and cross-cultural aspects of doing business and managing organizations.
You will become familiar with crucial topics such as: global strategy and innovation, internationalization of firms, intra-firm and inter-firm business networks, global business operations, cross-border mergers and acquisition, international entrepreneurship, cross-cultural leadership, global talent management, international talent management, capital structure in multinational firms, and/or comparative corporate governance. You will become familiar with different aspects of cross-border transactions regarding various knowledge domains like HRM, Operations Management, Technology Management, Financial Management, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and Service & Change Management.
seRvice & cHange ManageMentThis career orientation will give you a thorough under-standing of service provision in various organizations and of the change processes involved in service and other types of work contexts. In service settings, increasing customization requires a high degree of organizational agility.
In other work settings, too, there is a growing managerial need for insights into effective change processes and continuous organizational improvement.
You will become familiar with different aspects of cross-border transactions
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Career opporTUNITIeSFinancial ManageMentAs an FM specialization graduate, you will be qualified to work in different financial jobs at an academic level. You will possess knowledge and insights concerning accounting and finance, which will enable you to take up a position in financial control or treasury. You can fulfil various functions in start-ups, small and medium enterprises, or multinationals, as well as non-profit organizations. You could also work as a financial consultant supporting the management of organizations. Specifically, students are able to enter to the labour market in such jobs as: - Controller - Financial analyst - Account manager
HRMThe HRM specialization offers attractive career prospects. HRM professionals have extensive and varied employment opportunities at both the national and international level. These opportunities are not limited to the work you might traditionally associate with a personnel department. Rather, this specialization opens to the door to a broad spectrum of possibilities, such as a career with business consultancies, governmental organizations, temporary employment agencies, or reintegration services for the unemployed and disabled.Specifically, graduates are able to enter to the labour market in such jobs as: - HR professional or manager - Internal or external HR advisor - HR analyst
admISSIoN reqUIremeNTSDutcH HBo stuDentsGraduates with a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field of study of a Dutch HBO may be considered for admission. In most cases students will first need to complete a bridging course.
univeRsity oF twente stuDentsStudents holding a BSc degree in Business Administration from the University of Twente qualify for direct admission, conditions may apply.
DutcH univeRsity stuDentsStudents with other relevant Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Twente or another Dutch university will be considered for admission.
inteRnational stuDentsInternational students with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or a closely related field of study and a CGPA of 70-80% of the maximum score are invited to apply for admission. In addition international students need to pass an English language test.
More detailed admission requirements are available at www.utwente.nl/master/ba
Change management is even a burgeoning managerial subsector in its own right.You will focus on the many differences between service work settings and other work settings (especially manufacturing) and the different issues and change opportunities for various types of employees (and associated stakeholders) for dealing with customers effectively. You will also become familiar with the typical characteristics of knowledge-intensive work, the various organizational ‘shells’ surrounding it, and the business and behavioural issues and unique change opportunities for professionals, professional associations and professional service firms alike.
douBLe deGree ProGrAmme in innoVAtion And entrePreneursHiP
The Master’s in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship is a double degree programme offered by the University of Twente and the Technische Universität Berlin. The programme takes two years to complete and graduates earn two Master’s degrees:• MSc in Business Administration from the
University of Twente• MSc in Innovation Management and
Entrepreneurship from the TU Berlin
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inFoRMation ManageMentAs a graduate of the INF specialization, you can get your career off to a promising start as a management and IT consultant. Further on in your career, you may move to information or IT-based organizational change processes. Many of our graduates go on to become project managers for information, knowledge or IT projects, or progress to positions as information and knowledge managers. Specifically, graduates are able to enter to the labour market in such jobs as: - Information analyst - Social media experts - Consultancy professionals
innovation anD entRepReneuRsHipAs an INN&ENT specialization graduate, you can get straight to work managing and developing innovation processes. You could work for an R&D department, a new business development unit, or become a project manager in any state-of-the-art innovation environment. As a business or innovation consultant, you will work at the crossroads of innovation and strategy, technology and organization. You will help to foster and maintain the creative organizational climate required to compete on the basis of innovative strength. Specifically, graduates are able to enter to the labour market in such jobs as: - Junior managers in the field of innovation, business
development or R&D- - Internal or external innovation consultants - Entrepreneurs
inteRnational ManageMentThe combination of managerial and scientific capabilities with a thorough understanding of international business (both conceptual and practical) gives you the ideal preparation for a career in an international context. You might also consider a career in research by opting to continue your education in a PhD programme.Specifically, graduates are able to enter to the labour market in such jobs as: - Export manager - Advisor for organizations which help companies
planning to expand abroad - Starting their own international company
seRvice anD cHange ManageMentTwo-thirds of the current Western economy is service or knowledge-based and many services that used to be part-and-parcel of industrial firms are being outsourced and continuously improved. In this context, you can look forward to many and diverse career opportunities as a graduate in Service & Change Management. Think of the Service and Change Management programme as the increasingly important ‘soft side’ of Business Administration, free from the constraints of one particular career area.Specifically, graduates are able to enter to the labour market in such jobs as: - Manager in service operations improvement and/or
change management - Front-office or back-office manager of a service or
sales operation - Financial services advisor in service and customer
management, change and strategy management at a bank, insurance company, or investment and tax consulting firm
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‘During the programme we learn about the dynamics of strategy, this compares to equestrian sports, you are constantly making plans’
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When I started with the Master´s programme in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a specialization of the
Business Administration Master´s programme, I had already finished a Master´s programme in Applied
Physics. I chose Business Administration because I was interested in an internship for my final thesis.
I wanted to do an internship at a company, to see how business trials work. Currently I am doing my
internship at the Pentair Enschede, where I am working with the director of global sales.
It requires considerable planning to combine my sports with a Master’s programme. I am an equestrian performing on the highest level in the sport. Aside from the support of the people around me, there is an arrangement for elite athletes within the UT, which I have used several times.
The knowledge I have acquired during my Master´s programme in Business Administration, I use in my work as an elite athlete. During the programme we learn about the dynamics of strategy, this compares to equestrian sports, you are constantly making plans. It is useful to
learn when you should apply specific techniques to make plans. Vice versa, my sport protects me from the idea that theoretical knowledge is the only answer. You can know how something works in theory, but if you do something else in practice you will not reach the expected result. This entrepreneurial attitude is found throughout the whole university.
In the future I would like to combine my sports with work. However, this will limit my career options in business, so I do not yet know what I want to become exactly.
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contactFor general information about the master’s programme or the university of twente, as well as for questions about the application form of your enrolment status, please contact:
university of twentestudy information deskPhone: +31 (0)53 489 [email protected]/master
