Transport and Logistics

The MSc programme in Transport and Logistics is designed to give you all the necessary qualifications to develop, analyse, and manage advanced transportation and logistics systems.

This MSc programmes gives you methodological approaches to solve society's transport and logistics challenges using state-of-the-art optimization tools, sustainable planning instruments, advanced modelling techniques, and robust evaluation methods.

This allows graduates to take high-level jobs within the transportation sector, e.g. in the transport industry, as consultants or as employed within public organizations. Given the generality of the analytical tools, graduates are also attractive for sectors outside the transport area where analytical skills and capability to analyse and synthesize complex systems are required.

Graduates have extensive knowledge of mobility and transport solutions as well as logistics combined with skills in software technology, data science, planning methods, operations research, assessment and management. Furthermore, the flexibility of the study program allows combining the specialized skills with sustainability, maritime logistics, smart mobility, or railway technology. These are all skills and areas that are highly demanded by the industry globally.

In order to obtain the MSc degree in Transportation and Logistics the student must fulfil the following requirements: 

• Have passed General Competence Courses adding up to at least 30 points
• Have passed Technological Specialization Courses adding up to at least 30 points
• Have performed an MSc thesis of at least 30 points within the field of the general program
• Have passed a sufficient number of Elective Courses to bring the total number of points of the entire study up to 120.

Curriculum
The degree program is composed of 4 course blocks: General Degree Competencies (30 ECTS credit points), Technological Specialization (30 ECTS credit points), Elective Courses and Master Thesis (total of 60 ECTS credit points).

The degree program spans activities at two departments at DTU, which also offers other degree programs. Whether or not an MSc thesis falls within the intentions for the particular degree program is dependent on the approval of the director of studies. Students are recommended to seek prior approval of their MSc thesis as being within the parameters of the degree program.

General admission requirements

Only applicants holding either a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, a Bachelor in Engineering or a Bachelor of Natural Science degree can be admitted to a Master of Science in Engineering programme. From September 2017 the bachelor degree must be less than 10 years old.

The individual MSc Eng programme states in detail which bachelor programmes qualify and whether applicants have to complete supplementary educational activities.

Requirements for supplementary educational activities can equate to up to 30 ECTS credits and are specified in the form of a list of courses under the individual MSc Eng programmes.

The specific requirements must be met before graduating from the bachelor programme or in connection with conditional admission to a particular MSc Eng programme. The courses must be passed prior to the commencement of studies within one year from the conditional admission.

Supplementary educational activities in connection with conditional admission to an MSc Eng programme do not form part of the MSc Eng programme, and partial tuition fees are charged. If the supplementary courses have not been passed within the deadlines specified, the conditional admission to the programme is withdrawn.

The Master of Science in Engineering programmes are offered in English. Therefore applicants must demonstrate proficiency in English (B-level, IELTS, TOEFL- or Pearson test).

Academic requirements for this programme

To qualify for admission to the MSc Eng programme in Transport and Logistics, students are required to have completed a BSc Eng in either civil engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, software engineering or a similar programme in engineering science.

The following BSc Eng programmes at DTU entitle students to admission to the MSc Eng programme in Transport and Logistics

• Civil Engineering
• Strategic Analysis and Systems Design
• Software Technology
• Mathematics and Technology 
• Mechanical Engineering

Students holding a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Trafic and Transport have access to be admitted subject to having completed course 01025/01035/01037 Advanced Engineering Mathematics 2 (or similar) from September 2015.

Students holding a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Building and Civil Engineering (IHA) have access to be admitted subject to having completed courses equivalent to 02402 and 42101 and from 2015 course 01025/01035/01037 as presented in the table below.

Students holding other B Eng degrees may be eligible for enrollment on this MSc Eng programme. Individual assessment will be made as to whether applicants meet the academic requirements and the requirements for minimum 15 points for scientific disciplines (one from each block). The individual assessment will typically comprise a personal interview with the Head of Studies, who decides the study plan for the prospective student so that he/she can commence studies as soon as possible. The requirement that students have completed 15 points (5 points from each block) is specified below, and it can be fulfilled either by completing specific courses at DTU or by having completed courses in connection with a research based program which in content and level is equivalent to the courses mentioned:

Block 1

Block 2

Block 3

We recommend that students take some or all of the following courses as part of their BSc Eng/B Eng, or that they check the prerequisites for the individual courses in the course of study chosen in the Study Handbook:

Tuition in programming/computer science equivalent to one of the courses 02101, 02102, 02312 or 02318.

Prospective students holding a BSc Eng or B Eng from other academic institutions may qualify for admission if the components of their qualifications are equivalent to those described above.

Those holding a BSc Mathematics or BSc Mathematics and Economics are also eligible. Students admitted to this degree programme are recommended to contact the Head of Studies for advice on course selection.