Master of Applied IT
Eindhoven, Netherlands
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Jan 2026
TUITION FEES
EUR 2,601 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* statutory tuition fees Full-time| statutory tuition fees Part-time- € 2.395 | institutional tuition fee: € 12.480
Key Summary
Introduction
Are you an independent and confident ICT professional who wants to learn to deduce insights from challenges that lead to general, innovative solutions? In short, are you someone who wants to create solutions that impact society? Then the Fontys Master of Applied IT is for you.
Fontys ICT offers motivated students the opportunity to enrol in the Master of Applied IT. This master's programme is connected to the Fontys ICT bachelor's programme (BSc) and offers you the opportunity to further professionalise with a broader and deeper knowledge of your field.
At Fontys ICT, we strive for a close connection and cooperation with the professional field in our education. Therefore, you can expect that in our Master of Applied IT too.
Why the Master of Applied IT
With this master, you get:
- A Master's degree (MSc) at level 7 of 60 EC, after 1 year (full-time) or 1.5 years (part-time).
- A development of a deeper and broader set of IT skills.
- A programme where you learn through interdisciplinary collaborations between education, research, and practice.
- The skills and insights to abstract issues into generalisable solutions.
- The opportunity to work with reputable (partner) organisations.
- An English-language education with an international character in the Brainport region.
Professional Masters
There are two types of Master’s programmes in The Netherlands: professional Master, offered by Universities of Applied Sciences, and scientific Master, offered by Academic Universities. Although both types of Master’s programmes train to the same level, there is a difference in orientation. Professional Master’s programmes have a focus on practice-based research, whereas scientific Master’s programmes are more focused on research in the academic world. A graduate is expected to be able to adapt to new knowledge and adopt an inquisitive attitude. Knowledge of a limited field of study is no longer sufficient. Innovations, by and large, take place at the intersections of different disciplines. Professional Master’s programmes meet this increasing need for professionals who can operate at these intersections.
What does your week look like?
A master's programme is hard work, studying and working independently on your projects and collaborating with other disciplines, organisations, and professionals.
This involves the following basic agreements: You come to the Fontys ICT InnovationLab, your learning environment, for at least 3 days (full-time) or 1 day (part-time). For the rest of your week, you are also welcome to work there independently.
- You participate actively in the master community of students, teachers, researchers and partners.
- You decide what your goals are, who you need and how you will achieve them. You are guided in this, but you set your own course.
- You work on your project and specific practical assignments from professorships or partner organisations.
- You will have the opportunity to attend extra workshops and/or guest lectures.
Study Load
For the full-time master, you should expect the study load to be 40 hours per week. In part-time, the study load is about 20 hours per week, in addition to your job in ICT.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
The NL scholarship provides a partial scholarship for the first year of your studies at our University and is financed by Fontys University of Applied Sciences and the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
Scholarship
The scholarship amounts to € 5,000. You will receive this in the first year of your studies.
Some of the Fontys' programmes offer the NL Scholarship for non-EEA students. Visit the website to see which programmes offer this scholarship. You might also be eligible for other scholarships not provided by Fontys.
Curriculum
What will you learn
During your bachelor's degree, you gained the ability to apply IT as a tool in various assignments and to look critically at sustainable and inclusive solutions. With the Master of Applied IT, you take that a step further by abstracting challenges and developing solutions that have a broader application. You learn to think beyond the specific challenge for the innovations you develop to have a greater impact and contribute to a sustainably digitizing society.
- You improve your general knowledge of ICT and the latest developments.
- You learn to zoom out and analyze a problem from various angles using the methodology of Design Science Research.
- You develop your collaboration skills in interdisciplinary teams.
- You get hands-on experience through assignments and projects from organizations in the working world.
- You gain technical as well as social and communication skills.
- You graduate as a self-learning, -exploring, and -developing ICT professional, ready for the future.
What does your week look like
A master's program is hard work, studying and working independently on your projects, and collaborating with other disciplines, organizations, and professionals.
This involves the following basic agreements: You come to the Fontys ICT InnovationLab, your learning environment, for at least 3 days (full-time) or 1 day (part-time). For the rest of your week, you are also welcome to work there independently.
- You participate actively in the master community of students, teachers, researchers, and partners.
- You decide what your goals are, who you need, and how you will achieve them. You are guided in this, but you set your course.
- You work on your project and specific practical assignments from professorships or partner organizations.
- You will have the opportunity to attend extra workshops and/or guest lectures.
Study Load
For the full-time master, you should expect the study load to be 40 hours per week. In part-time, the study load is about 20 hours per week, in addition to your job in ICT.
Construction Master of Applied IT per year
In the program’s first semester, you will work in a group on a practical assignment. In this, you work together with a group of students who can also look at your assignment from other disciplines. Together you look for the best-fitting solutions and research their practical applicability. You record your research process and the answers to your research questions in a paper. In addition to working on your assignments and projects, you will participate in workshops and guest lectures to gain inspiration and insights that you will take into your projects.
In the second semester, you will work on an individual graduation assignment. During this time, you will regularly visit the Fontys ICT InnovationLab to attend workshops, guest lectures, and other educational activities.
In full-time, you should expect the study load to be 40 hours per week. In part-time, the study load is about 20 hours per week, in addition to your job in ICT.
Program Outcome
What will you learn
During your bachelor's degree, you gained the ability to apply IT as a tool in various assignments and to look critically at sustainable and inclusive solutions. With the Master of Applied IT, you take that a step further by abstracting challenges and developing solutions that have a broader application. You learn to think beyond the specific challenge for the innovations you develop to have a greater impact and contribute to a sustainably digitizing society.
- You improve your general knowledge of ICT and the latest developments.
- You learn to zoom out and analyze a problem from various angles using the methodology of Design Science Research.
- You develop your collaboration skills in interdisciplinary teams.
- You get hands-on experience through assignments and projects from organizations in the working world.
- You gain technical as well as social and communication skills.
- You graduate as a self-learning, -exploring, and -developing ICT professional, ready for the future.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
After your studies
The master's will train you to become an ICT professional who plays a key role in (ICT) innovation projects within and outside your professional field. You could fulfill the role of project leader, innovator, or expert in organizations innovating in technology or working with transformation issues where ICT can make a difference.
Roles that suit you after your Master of Applied IT:
- Proactively contributing to innovation within and in an organization in the whole process, from analysis and problem formulation to the development and implementation of (technological) solutions
- Analyzing the impact of innovation, ethically, socially, and in terms of sustainability.
- Analyzing and structuring large amounts of information and translating it into advice/actions.
- Understanding and articulating organizational processes.
- Identifying market trends and developments and translating them into opportunities for the organization within the IT domain.
- IT professionals with the skillset and knowledge you gain during your Master of Applied IT can be of significance in many places. Technology is transforming, and digitalization continues at a merciless pace.
- With that, the need for expertise and people who can shape a digital future is also growing. Government, banks, healthcare institutions, education, entertainment, and even sports cannot do without IT. You will be at the forefront of change in positions such as:
- Digital transformation project manager
- Cloud architects & engineers
- Smart Industry consultants
- AI specialists & engineers
- Software architects & designers
- System architects & designers