The Master's Business Analytics takes two years. In your first semester you take the compulsory core courses, in the second and third semesters you focus on your specialisation, and in the fourth you carry out a six-month research internship at a company or research institute.
Why two years? Many quantitative master's programmes take one year and consist mainly of courses. Two years give you time to build expertise, explore your interests through electives and specialise in depth. You then apply what you have learned in a six-month internship within an organisation, so you graduate with a stronger technical foundation, substantial practical experience and often a job offer. Two-year master's programmes (120 ECTS) are also the norm in much of Europe, which can matter when applying for jobs or PhD positions abroad.
During the programme you learn mathematical modelling and how to apply it in practice (including at financial institutions), how to make predictions with machine learning and statistics, how to analyse data and recognise patterns and structures, and how to build a complete decision support system in a group project.
You also develop professional skills: scientific writing and presenting, and communication and teamwork in an interdisciplinary team.
Alongside these skills, you learn how AI models such as large language models work, where they fail and how to use them ethically, so that you are ready for a working world in which AI is an everyday tool.
The programme is taught entirely in English and starts in September.
