MSc Business Information Systems Engineering at Ilmenau University of Technology

Programme on digitalisation in business, administration and society, building on a Bachelor's in Business Information Systems or an equivalent qualification. It deepens and broadens knowledge in business information systems, economics and law, and computer science, with specialisation areas such as service informatics, Industry 4.0, information management, IT consulting, IT security, operations research and data analytics, simulation and data analytics, and knowledge management.

Faculty: Faculty of Economic Sciences and Media  |  Duration: 4 semesters (2 years), 120 credit points  |  Study mode: full-time; German-taught; double master with Russia (currently suspended)  |  Intake: Winter semester (1 October) and summer semester (1 April)  |  Location: Ilmenau, Thüringen, Germany

What you will study

Business information systems compulsory area (for example enterprise knowledge management, quantitative corporate planning, IT service and IT innovation management, simulation) and elective area with specialisation fields (for example management consulting, data analysis and data mining, information management, data science for industrial applications, IT security management, Industry 4.0); elective areas in economics and law (for example business-to-business marketing, supply chain and closed loop management, business ethics and sustainability management, media law, innovation economics, media economics) and in computer science (for example deep learning, data science methods and techniques, model-driven software development, distributed data management, security engineering); and the master's thesis.

Career pathways

Fields include IT and management consulting, product management in technology companies, process management, IT management and IT controlling, data science and data analysis, business intelligence management, IT application consulting and training, IT sales and purchasing, IT project management, and IT system and software development.

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