The Master’s in Business and Information Technology (BIT) is a two-year programme comprising 120 credits. The entire programme is taught in English and features two specializations:

• Enterprise Architecture & IT Management
• Data science & business

The programme will prepare you to occupy a leading position in the field of information systems. Management and IT form the core of your training. You will learn how to integrate and apply your newly acquired knowledge in a broad organizational context, as you develop your communication skills, interpersonal prowess and the ability to work in groups. You will be well-suited for a successful career, thanks to your extensive knowledge of IT issues and organizational challenges, your critical attitude and your positive disposition towards lifelong learning and innovation.

For students from Universities of Applied Sciences three premaster’s programmes have been created that will prepare the student for the Business Information Technology master’s programme.

• this programme of 30EC, meant for students with a computer science background that includes programming, like HBO ICT, or Computer Science and Engineering (informatica).
• A programme of 30EC meant for students from other engineering programmes with a business component, but limited to no programming or computer science like industrial engineering and management (technische bedrijfskunde)
• And another programme of 45EC (30 as transfer minor, and 15 as a pre-master after graduation), meant for students with a background in business administration (bedrijfskunde), with limited to no engineering, programming or computer science.

This means that during this transfer minor, students in computer science carry out the whole pre-master’s programme.

The premaster programme (and therefore also the transfer minor) helps students to rise their theoretical level and their capabilities to think in abstract concepts. It supports students shift their focus a Computer Science perspective to the combination of the field with Business Administration and industrial Management in Business Information Technology.

This minor aims to attract students from universities of applied sciences (HBO) who have the adequate motivation and capacities to complete an English-taught degree programme on university level.

You need to have completed 120 EC’s from the first two years of your current related bachelor’s studies before starting this transfer minor. With their signed Learning Agreement students should submit a transcript containing all courses they will have taken at their University of Applied Sciences  when starting the transfer-minor, with the marks as far as already obtained.

In addition, the University of Twente strongly recommends that students who start this transfer minor possess sufficient prior knowledge in mathematics (Wiskunde –B on so-called VWO-level) or equivalent. Additional knowledge can be obtained by e.g. Babel en Boswell Bèta or Open Universiteit. Sufficient proficiency in English (benchmark score in this regard: IELTS 6.0 or TOEFL 80) is also recommended, but not mandatory.

In order to determine whether your current studies is sufficiently related to educational science, please check: www.doorstroommatrix.nl  and check the website of this master’s programme.

Note: If you have a different background, the Admission board will decide on an individual basis if for you a transfer minor programme is possible.

The books used for each course can be found in the course descriptions of the individual courses in the course catalogue.

• The programme can only be followed in full time study.
• Courses are spread over the five working days of the week, although occasionally a day may be “free”. Note that in this case students are assumed to spend their time in self-study.
• There is 1 term of enrolment: September (to February, resits in March and April aside).

Transfer minor for students with a background in Computer Science

Quarter 1

202001171 Calculus A (5EC)
202001178 Linear algebra (3EC)

202000260 Organization Theory (5EC)

202100215  Academic research skills (2EC)

Quarter 2

202001176 Statistics and Probability (5EC)

202000262 Researching Strategy and Marketing

202000261 Global Entrepreneurship & Business

Note. The codes and names mentioned are the 2023 course codes. Codes and modules names for 2024-2025 might be subject to minor changes.

Assessment of the study results with a mark for each individual course. The minor programme can only be finished successfully (implying admission to the master’s programme) if all individual courses have resulted in a sufficient mark. The minor programme should be finished successfully within a year after the start in order to get admission to the master’s programme.

N.B. The learning agreement signed by the student and his Examination Board must have reached the UT-contactperson before the enrollment ends. Please also attach your most recent transcript of records.