About this program
MSc Industrial Engineering and Management
This program gives you the skills to adopt changes in an industrial environment in a responsible and efficient manner, through established concepts in manufacturing, quality, and innovation.
Linköping University has been a pioneer in industrial engineering and management education since the 1970s. Thanks to our dedicated and experienced teachers, we can offer you interesting challenges and personal development to help you reach success. Besides lectures and laboratory work, we expect you to actively participate in projects, writing papers, essays and reports, and presenting minor research tasks. This is demanding, and for good reason. We take education seriously and want your time with us to be as meaningful as possible.
Admission requirements
- Bachelor's degree with a major in mechanical engineering, energy engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, computer science or equivalent. The Bachelor's degree (equivalent to a Swedish Kandidatexamen) shall be from an internationally recognised university.
- 30 ECTS credits in mathematics/applied mathematics and/or application of mathematics relevant for the program, including courses in linear algebra, calculus and mathematical statistics.
- English corresponding to the level of English in Swedish upper secondary education (English 6/B). This is normally attested by means of an internationally recognised test.
(Exemption from Swedish)
The deadline for submitting the online application is the 16th of January. The deadline for submitting all supporting documentation is the 1st of February. Documents that are submitted after the deadline will make the whole application late, and possibly not considered for most of the programmes.
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Semester 1
Period 1
- Project Management and Organization
- Quality Management and Engineering
- Manufacturing Planning and Control
Period 2
- Project Management and Organization
- Lean Production
- Applied Planning and Control in Operations Management
Semester 2
Specialisation: Innovation Management — Preliminary courses
Period 1
- Marketing Management
- Leadership and Organizational Change
- Industrial Ecology
- Research Methods in Management and Engineering
- Operations Strategy
Period 2
- Innovative Entrepreneurship
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Resource Efficient Products
Specialisation: Operations Management
Period 1
- Marketing Management
- Leadership and Organizational Change
- Statistical Quality Control
- Research Methods in Management and Engineering
- Operations Strategy
- Quantitative Models and Analysis in Operations Management
Period 2
- Innovative Entrepreneurship
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Resource Efficient Products
- Six Sigma Quality
- Design and Development of Manufacturing Operations
Specialisation: Quality Management
Period 1
- Marketing Management
- Leadership and Organizational Change
- Statistical Quality Control
- Research Methods in Management and Engineering
- Operations Strategy
Period 2
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Resource Efficient Products
- Six Sigma Quality
- Customer Focused Product and Service Development
- Design and Development of Manufacturing Operations
Semester 3
Specialisation: Innovation Management
Period 1
- Project Based Organization and Management
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Project Course
- Innovation Management
Period 2
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Project Course
- Integrated Product Service Engineering
- International Energy Markets
Specialisation: Operations Management
Period 1
- Project Based Organization and Management
- Innovation Management
- Operations Management - Project Course
- Simulation in Production and Logistics
Period 2
- Integrated Product Service Engineering
- Sustainable Manufacturing
- Operations Management - Project Course
Specialisation: Quality Management
Period 1
- Project Based Organization and Management
- Innovation Management
- Quality Management - Project Course
- Simulation in Production and Logistics
Period 2
- Integrated Product Service Engineering
- Sustainable Manufacturing
- Quality Management - Project Course
Semester 4
Period 1
- Degree project - Master’s Thesis
Period 2
- Degree project - Master’s Thesis
Scholarships & funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the school website for more information.
Tuition
SEK 280 600 - NB: Applies only to students from outside the EU, EEA and Switzerland.
Qualification
Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Management, 120 credits
Career paths
Our graduates are enjoying interesting careers as R&D managers in tech-intensive companies, or as CTOs in smaller companies and start-ups. You will be qualified for engineering positions with businesses and authorities involving consulting, investment strategies, production planning and control, lean, quality, and supply chain management. You will also be prepared for an academic career beginning with doctoral studies.
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About this institute
Linköping University
Linköping University (LiU) was granted university status in 1975 and today has 37,600 students (full-time equivalents 19,200), including 2,000 international students. In 2022, LiU landed on spot 38 of the Times Higher Education ranking of the world’s young universities. This is...
Why study at Linköping University
Linköping University welcomes students from all over the world, and English is widely spoken everywhere by its 2,000 international students, or about 6% of its student population. Many doctoral students and researchers are international.
We rank highly: LiU has been named as one of the world’s 200 best universities in education, materials science, sociology and electrical and electronic engineering, according to this year’s QS World University Rankings by Subject.
Good prospects: A degree from LiU makes you a highly sought after employee. An impressive 88% of our students are employed within 18 months of graduating.
Research that makes a difference: What makes Linköping University special is the lack of boundaries between different subjects and faculties, which has resulted in world-leading research environments and companies as well as a number of truly cross-disciplinary study programs.
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