Engineering and Business Administration
(Master of Science)
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Short Description
What is the best way to link the technical perfection and marketability of products? Thanks to the combination of Engineering and Business Administration, students address a wide range of topics at university and later in their professions. Graduates of this degree programme are capable of analysing problems of an economic and technical nature, helping them to resolve such issues. They learn the knowledge and skills required to act as intermediaries between engineers and economists, and to overcome communication problems between them. While engineers are primarily concerned with the technical perfection of products, economists are mainly interested in their marketability. Graduates of the degree programme in Engineering and Business Administration are the ideal experts for overcoming communication problems between the two groups.
As the link between business and engineering, industrial engineers sets targets, plan, take decisions, organise and monitor wherever technical and economic issues arise (usually together). During the programme, future industrial engineers gain a thorough insight into both subjects: Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.
Course Content
- Selection of an economic and a technical field of expertise
- Economic fields of expertise: Accounting, Taxation and Public Finance, Data Science and Applied Econometrics, Economic Policy and Theory, Finance, Banking & Insurance, Health Economics, Information and Operations Management, International Environment and Development Studies, Strategic Management
- Technical fields of expertise: Digitalisation / Automation, Electrical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Medical Engineering, Production Engineering, Robotics / Mechatronics, Thermal Engineering
In the four-semester Master's programme in Engineering and Business Administration, compulsory modules totalling 25 credit points are offered, along with eight different areas of economic competence and seven areas of technical competence (specialisations). You choose one area of economic competence comprising at least 25 credit points and one area of technical competence comprising at least 40 credit points. In both the technical and the economic area of competence, there is an elective area in which you can take any module from all seven technical areas of competence and any module from all eight economic areas of competence. The compulsory modules include operations research, scientific computing, descriptive statistics and private law. The six-month master's thesis contributes 30 credit points to the total of 120 credit points required for your master's degree.
At the Master’s stage, students expand on the knowledge in engineering, mathematics and economics gained on the Bachelor’s degree programme. Students on the Master’s degree programme in Engineering and Business Administration should possess the professional skills taught at the Bachelor’s stage, as well as initial skills for producing scientific work.
Industrial engineers analyse problems of an economic and technical nature, and help to resolve them. On the labour market, there is an increasing demand for industrial engineers at management level, in areas such as production planning and production control, product development, procurement and logistics, sales, and in the controlling of industrial enterprises. Additional areas of employment can be found in the public sector, in service industries and commercial enterprises.
Admission Requirements
An undergraduate degree in a related field of study, such as
For master's degree programmes with restricted admission, places shall be allocated according to the university’s own selection procedure, if there are more applicants fulfilling the admission requirements than there are places available. The exact admission requirements can be found in the admission regulations:
- Admission and special language Regulations Degree Programme Engineering and Business Administration
- Admission and special language Regulations Degree Programme Engineering and Business Administration (English translation)
There is no minimum grade / entry grade for the Master''s application. Notwithstanding the currently valid admission regulations for Master''s programmes, the minimum grade of 2.5 is no longer applied. The admission regulations will be revised in this regard.
Application Deadlines
First-year students from Germany and the EU
- June 1st – July 15th of the year for the winter semester
- December 1st – January 15th of the year for the summer semester
First-year students from non-EU countries (VPD from uni-assist is required)
- April 15th – May 31st of the year for the winter semester
- December 1st – January 15th of the year for the summer semester 2025
- October 15th – November 30th of the previous year for the summer semester (starting 2026)
Students resuming their studies and transfer students from Germany and the EU (application in a higher semester)
- June 1st – July 15th of the year for the winter semester
- December 1st – January 15th of the year for the summer semester
Students resuming their studies and transfer students from non-EU countries (application in a higher semester)
- April 15th – May 31st of the year for the winter semester
- December 1st – January 15th of the year for the summer semester 2025
- October 15th – November 30th of the previous year for the summer semester (starting 2026)
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30167 Hannover
30167 Hannover
