Master of Mobility and Supply Chain Engineering
Leuven, Belgium
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English, Dutch
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline *
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 7,771 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* there is no strict application deadline | for the most recent – and only official – information on application deadlines, please check the KU Leuven webpage
** for non-EEA; EUR 1157 for EEA | for the most recent – and only official – information on tuition fees, please check the KU Leuven webpage
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About this programme
As a graduate of the Master in Mobility & Supply Chain Engineering, you put Intelligent Transport Systems into optimal use. You analyse and bring systematic innovation to accessibility and sustainability (environment) aspects of the transport system. For example by redesigning the logistic processes of hospitals, offering out-of-the-box solutions for public transport operators who cooperate with trendy firms (Google, Uber, Tesla, ...), and developing tools so that shared bike systems and electric cars can work.
As a graduate, you can also analyse existing transport networks in response to new players, different prices and new technologies like 3D printing. Your skills will allow you to invent new ways of organising for example e-commerce, warehouses, drones, and robots.
Programme strengths
- A research-driven programme: It is great to see new generations of students getting fascinated by the beautiful mathematics that describes stop and go waves in traffic, or game-theoretical interactions in a transport system. In our research, we have cast these theories into fast computer models. Our students can play with them, and compare them to the latest traffic data that arrives in our lab every minute.
- Linking theory to practice: We offer cases and data sets of transport systems you know from daily life around you. Next to academic staff, teachers from companies, consultants and government share their experience with you. Our Industrial Advisory Board keeps the programme in line with the needs of the sector and lets you witness their activities in excursions and guest lectures. Experience working in the sector by choosing an internship or making your master's thesis with a company!
Curriculum
The Master of Mobility and Supply Chain Engineering is a two-year programme of 120 ECTS that trains you in optimisation and modelling techniques to address modern mobility and supply chain engineering processes. The programme equips you to understand the decision-making processes of users, designers and managers of mobility and supply chain systems and their complex interactions within the transportation infrastructure. You become an expert in optimising these decisions and interactions through the application and consequent management of new, smart transportation technologies.
Ideal Students
Society demands for more mobility and logistics, but she accepts less and less (societal) costs and bumps more often into boundaries. Fortunately, technology offers more and more possibilities to make traffic and logistics cleaner, more efficient, more reliable, and more customized: ITS. There are already engineers who make this ITS technology, but there is a lack of engineers who can put ITS into optimal use. You may be this white knight.
- You are ambitious, critical, analytical, and open-minded
- You desire to make society cleaner, safer, and more efficient
- You realize that logistics and traffic are important and crucial now and in the future
- You are driven by the urge to innovate technology as well as the systems in which it thrives
Admissions
Program delivery
The courses are fully taught in English and also available in Dutch.
Program Outcome
- Credits: 120 ECTS
- Degree Type: Master's
Program Tuition Fee
Why study at KU Leuven
What sets us apart as a university?
A highly ranked university
KU Leuven is among the best 100 universities in the world according to both Times Higher Education World Rankings and QS World University Rankings. All of KU Leuven’s disciplines proudly belong to the top 100 of their field. Furthermore, KU Leuven was ranked by Reuters as the most innovative university in Europe in 2016.
Research-based education
Education at KU Leuven is research-based, which means students will learn from the same professors who are performing the ground-breaking research you read about in the press. New insights are instantly integrated into classes and students are encouraged to perform their own research. In our FabLab, students can use a number of high-tech machines to create whatever they want – all free of charge.
Affordable tuition fees
Higher education is highly valued in Belgium and therefore subsidised by the government. This allows KU Leuven to keep tuition fees relatively low, which gives you a price/quality ratio very few top-100 universities can match. We take pride in keeping our programmes as accessible as possible to allow the brightest students from around the globe to join our courses.
International student life with respect for diversity
According to Times Higher Education, KU Leuven is in the top 50 of most international universities worldwide with staff and students from over 150 different nationalities. For all our international students, the Pangaea student centre is their home away from home. Our university also strives for diversity and inclusion and wants to work together on a pact for more respect.
Faculty
Info Sessions
Rankings
KU Leuven is among the best 100 universities in the world according to both Times Higher Education World Rankings and QS World University Rankings. All of KU Leuven’s disciplines proudly belong to the top 100 of their field.