Bachelor of Science in Business Engineering

The Business Engineering programme combines a business economic training with a thorough understanding of technology and business informatics. The focus is on positioning the production process of technological products, services and processes in a business economic context throughout the entire logistics chain and in an (international) network of companies.

Business engineers position themselves as mediators between business economists and technical engineers. Business engineers are trained in this respect to set up information systems, to analyse business data (statistically), to model processes and to manage various solution methods.

The understanding of analytical methods helps you in your role as manager to take general and more specific operational management, financial or marketing decisions in a (quantitatively) well-founded manner. A business engineer, in other words, is trained to analyse, solve, and implement solutions to business problems. They do so in real-life business processes, but always starting from an abstract model.

• Bachelor

The first year offers a curriculum that is common to all initial Bachelor’s programmes, i.e. Economics, Business Economics, and Business Engineering. This will allow you to make well-founded study choices in the following years.

The first year thoroughly covers the basics of general economics and business economics, and of a number of auxiliary and related disciplines.

From the second year onwards, the Business Economics curriculum contains a number of basic course units on the functional domains of applied economics (accounting, corporate finance and marketing), which go hand in hand with an in-depth technical-technological and quantitative training.

These course units are explored further in the course of the third year as well. You are trained in analysing and modelling business economic processes and problems by means of quantitative analysis techniques. The third year culminates in seminar work, which takes the form of an integration exercise.

• Master

The two-year English-taught Master’s programme offers a choice of three main subjects: Data Analytics, Finance and Operations Management.

Your choice of main subject allows you to tailor your curriculum to your personal interests, based on the domain and or analysis technique that suited you most in the second and third year. You will then explore the domain of your choice into full depth. In addition, the Master’s curriculum contains two elective course units, one of which you can replace by a corporate work placement.

The Master’s programme culminates in a Master's dissertation, in the course of which you research one specific problem in all its aspects under the guidance of a supervisor. 

In addition to the (domain) Master’s programme described above, you can also choose a Master’s Programme in Teaching (in Dutch: Educatieve Master).

In their professional life, business engineers manage, improve and optimise production processes and services. They act as mediators between business economists and other participants in the logistics chain. They are able to take decisions at all levels, ranging from operational decisions on the floor to strategic ones at executive level. From a business economic perspective, business engineers are acquainted sufficiently with the product, the production process and the logistics chain to perform e.g. cost price calculation. They can likewise find employment in the financial sector: take, for instance, financing new production units or taking out insurances. Business engineers increasingly find their way to responsible positions in information provision and IT, as an information architect or IT consultant. Many of our graduates start a career that is in line with their main subject at first, but move on to more general management positions later.

Some specific examples of jobs our graduates in Business Engineering pursue: production manager, logistics director, production planning expert, business consultant, business analyst, process engineer, research & development manager and customer relations manager.