Business Information Technology

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Local:$ 2.06 k / Year(s) Foreign:$ 14.3 k / Year(s)  
201–250 place StudyQA ranking:6216 Duration:24 months

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The Master’s in Business Information Technology makes you an expert in IT-based business innovation, with the skills to devise new services and radically improve the way businesses work.

This Master’s programme focuses on the areas of e-strategy and e-commerce, business and IT architectures, IT-based business models and IT project management. You will gain experience in designing organizational changes supported by IT to implement new and effective ways of working. The programme offers an environment that enables you to deepen your knowledge of modern technical systems, in close collaboration with the fields of Computer Science, Business Management and Logistics. IT continues to drastically change the way we live and work. However, IT is not a goal in itself. You will acquire a keen insight into business processes and organizations, enabling you to apply IT to innovate and create added value. The programme is run by some of the world’s leading research groups and consistently ranks among the top three Master’s programmes in the Netherlands. Graduates who can bridge the gap between IT potential and business needs are in high demand in industry, consulting, research and government. This demand is expected to increase even further in the years to come. Exciting national and international careers are waiting for you!

Programme internationalization:

  • Studying abroad is optional.

This programme has a workload of 120 ECTS.

Specialities:

Enterprise Architecture:

This specialization deals with the overall organization of business and IT. It focuses on business processes, strategies and mission, and explores how they can be effectively supported by IT systems. In today’s global and competitive world, an increasing number of businesses are going in search of seamless collaboration with a view to offering leading services. In this specialization, you will learn how IT infrastructure and software systems can be configured to support business processes. The methods for specification, design and implementation of information systems will be part of your toolbox as you analyse current enterprise architectures and their limitations (e.g. lack of flexibility, lack of support for e-commerce and social media, limited security). Using the latest theories and modelling languages you will be able to design enterprise architectures and adopt the optimum change process. By aligning strategy, business process and IT architecture, you will learn how to make IT work effectively. You will also learn how to use IT to integrate business in a network of collaborating organizations (a ‘value net’).

IT Management & Innovation:

This specialization is about the application of IT in projects in organizations, with the aim of improving business performance. It also looks at how innovation can be made possible through IT. How can IT be applied to deliver a set of high-quality services to a business? Which software systems should be installed to support particular business processes and services? How can a company’s web presence and use of social media be designed and implemented? Such questions have become key in modern companies, so much so that in future, organizations will not be able to survive without IT management professionals. This role requires knowledge of business processes and IT as an enabler of innovation and change. You will learn how strategies can be built using IT, and how e-commerce allows customers to be served on the web through IT. Using knowledge of finance and techniques from economics, you will master the skills needed to design a business case for IT projects. You will study the pros and cons of sourcing IT globally and the challenges of IT project management.

Business Analytics:

This specialization is about the use of process and data mining for the analysis and possible reconfiguration of organizations and their IT infrastructure. It addresses the complexities of ‘big data’. Nowadays all kinds of data are being generated on the way people use business services, their preferences, how business processes are conducted, how enterprises interoperate, and so on. This vast amount of data (often dubbed ‘big data’) can be analysed using process-mining and data-mining techniques that enable business analysts to understand how a business is performing and to identify new opportunities. You will get to grips with advanced techniques used in databases that are capable of handling exceptionally big datasets, techniques for empirical research used to generate and analyse big datasets, and simulation techniques that allow the exploration of new business scenarios before new systems are actually built.

Previous education: BSc degree business & IT, computer science, information management, industrial engineering & management, business administration with specialisation in IT. Knowledge minimum: CGPA of at least 75%. Additional language requirements:IELTS overall band: 6.5TOEFL internet based: 90Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English: C1Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English: C1 English Language Requirements IELTS band: 6.5 CAE score: (read more) Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) is part of the Cambridge English suite and is targeted at a high level (IETLS 6.5-8.0). It is an international English language exam set at the right level for academic and professional success. Developed by Cambridge English Language Assessment - part of the University of Cambridge - it helps you stand out from the crowd as a high achiever. 60 (Grade C) TOEFL iBT® test: 90

Scholarships / Grants:

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Accreditation

Accredited by: nvao in: The Netherlands

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