Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Master of Science in Business Engineering: Business and Technology

The master's in business and technology is a daytime program that consists of two modules (two years), in total of 120 ECTS credits.

• Module 1 (year 1) is composed of 9 compulsory courses and one elective, in total 60 ECTS credits
• Once you've completed the courses from Module 1, you can start with the second module.

A graduate of the MSc in Business Engineering: Business and Technology:

1. has profound insight into, and academic knowledge of, the different disciplines of international business economics;
2. has a good overview of and masters a rich and diverse tool kit of business economic paradigms, principles, and models and is able to autonomously, critically, reflectively, and analytically evaluate and argue which could serve as a means to provide sustainable solutions for (business) optimization in a real, uncertain, complex, international and high-technological business context;
3. can strategically think, act, undertake and innovate problem-solving, and with profound analytical and multidisciplinary-integrating knowledge and skills;
4. is able to retrain oneself on the life-long and autonomous basis in the most up-to-date and advanced developments in international business economics, also integrating other disciplines, and this both on the professional and academic grounds;
5. can autonomously consult, analyze and critically interpret scientific research results and has profound knowledge of scientific methodology;
6. can autonomously set up and conduct scientific research by means of the suitable scientific method(s) to answer an original research question, and is able to report on this, in writing and orally, incorrect methodological terminology;
7. takes with a critical and value-free research attitude initiative and responsibility in autonomously conducting academic research to provide an original contribution to the existing business economic knowledge;
8. is aware of and understands the most important up-to-date applications and technologies of at least one of the high-technological sectors that are relevant for regional and global development;
9. has profound insight into the process of starting up and managing a high-technological company and is able to apply and translate these insights to a multidisciplinary business plan.

Master of Science in Business Engineering: Business and Technology (120 ECTS).

Students also continue their academic careers as a PhD researcher.

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