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Our (future) students can find the official study programme and other useful info here.

You can find information about admission requirements, further studies and more practical info such as ECTS sheets, or a weekly timetable of the current academic year.

 

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Be sure to first take a look at the page about the Master of Business and Information Systems Engineering.

There you can find more info on:

- What’s the programme about?

- Starting profile

- Admission and application

- Future possibilities

- Why KU Leuven

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Objectives

The programme Master of Business and Information Systems Engineering expects students to acquire certain knowledge, skills and attitudes and therefore formulates the following programme-specific learning outcomes:

The graduate uses the economic thought framework as a background when analysing and solving business-economic problems.

The graduate uses the knowledge of the domains of business management when analysing business problems and is able to propose, compare and assess different solutions in a real business context.

The graduate is able to integrate the different business domains and understand their mutual relations on the level of a company, with attention for the broad framework of business, environmental factors and the relevant public players.

The graduate is capable of modelling, analysing and optimising business processes through a thorough insight into business process management and process mining.

The graduate detects important evolutions and innovations within the specialisation, follows these up and assesses if these are relevant for the specific business context.

The graduate is able to design, optimise and manage the business processes in a contemporary organisation.

The graduate is able to implement the modelled business processes in an information system-architecture.

The graduate is able to apply the state of art mathematical and statistical methods within a real economic and business context, with critical attention for the limitation and assumptions of the methods.

The graduate is able to go through the different stages of research in order to analyse problems of business-economic and technical nature, to formulate and assess solutions, and to communicate about this.

The graduate is able to describe and interpret the behaviour of economic agents and is able to assess the consequences for an organisation and for society.

The graduate is able to assess contemporary social challenges from a scientific and technological perspective and is able to elaborate sustainable solutions for this.

The graduate is able to analyse, improve and automatise business processes, making use of ICT-strategies and -techniques.

The graduate develops specific professional skills in order to integrate, visualise and analyse business data with a view to data-driven and big data management.

The graduated master is able to communicate clearly in the language of instruction and the scientific language in the business-relevant disciplines.

The graduate has insight into the legal context in which the organisation enters.

The graduate develops professional skills in preparation of the transition to the job market (leadership skills, teamwork, communication skills,...)

The graduate discerns the social, ethical and sustainability aspects of business management and is able to critically reflect on this.

The graduate is able to analyse business-economic questions in an international framework.

The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration encourages and pursues developmental aspects in all its courses in the field of:

Professional skills and employability

-          The student develops a professional attitude as well as professional and academic skills that enable him/her to deliver a meaningful contribution to society.

-          The student actively searches for settings to broaden and/or deepen his/her competences in accordance with his/her disciplinary future self.

-          The student acknowledges the importance of continuing education and shows willingness to participate in lifelong learning.

 

Ethics, responsibility and sustainability

-          In his/her thinking and acting the student shows attention for the environment, man, and society and develops a critical attitude towards these topics.

-          The student adopts an ethical approach when solving problems in a business context.

 

International orientation

-          The student pays attention to international and intercultural dimensions of business and policy.

-          The student acknowledges the added value of an international context for their own environment and the society in general.

 

Entrepreneurship and innovation

-          The student develops a proactive stance and entrepreneurial attitude, characterised by creativity and  a sense of innovation.

 

When, within a programme, a developmental objective also constitutes a learning outcome, this is also mentioned within the objectives of the programme or the course and becomes binding.

Educational quality of the study programme

Here you can find an overview of the results of the COBRA internal quality assurance method.

Educational quality at study programme level

Blueprint
Blueprint Ba Ma Business and Information Systems Engineering.pdf

COBRA 2019-2023
COBRA report_MA_BusinessandInformationSystemsEngineering.pdf

Educational quality at university level

• Consult the documents on educational quality available at university level.

More information?

• More information on the educational quality at KU Leuven
• More information on the available documents