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 45EC (30 EC transfer minor plus 15 EC premaster), meant for students with a background in business administration (bedrijfskunde), with limited to no engineering, programming or computer science.
• Another programme of 30EC, meant for students with a computer science background, like HBO ICT, Computer science and engineering (informatica).
• A programme of 30 EC, meant for students from other engineering programmes with a business component, like industrial engineering and management (technische bedrijfskunde), but with limited to no programming or computer science.

During this transfer minor students carry out a programme of 30EC for students in business administration. If they successfully complete the 30 EC minor within the year, they will be allowed to follow the remaining part of the premaster’s programme after their bachelor’s graduation. This will happen during an additional reduced premaster’s programme of 15EC (during the first quarter of the year after graduation from the bachelor’s programme). After successful completion of this premaster’s programme students will be admitted to the master’s programme and can start their master’s programme during the second quarter of the year. The total amount of time required nominally for the premaster’s plus master’s programme will be 2¼ years.

The premaster programme (and therefore also the transfer minor) helps students to rise their theoretical level and their capabilities to think in abstract concepts. Also it helps shift their focus from pure Business Administration to the combination of this with Computer Science 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). 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 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

Quarter 1

202001060 Introduction to Business Information Technology 15 EC, consisting of:

• Introduction to math and calculus 1A
• Introduction to computer science
• Introduction to business information technology
• Research methods

Quarter 2

202001064 Software Development 15 EC, consisting of:

• Calculus 1B
• System design
• Programming

 

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

The educational units in this programme are organized in so called modules of 15EC each, according to the Twente Education Model (Twents Onderwijsmodel). The modules contain several study units dedicated to subtopics that contribute to the theme of the module. The modules of this programme also contain mathematics courses according to the generic bachelor mathematics programme for technical studies. Each module contains integrated projects.

Assessment is done with tests during the module for all separate parts. The final assessment consists of one mark per study unit described above. A six is the minimum sufficient mark.

All study units of the minor programme should be finished successfully within a year after the start in order to get admission to the master's programme. The remaining part of the premaster’s programme after their bachelor’s graduation for students in Business Administration will be around 15 EC in total:

202001178 Linear Algebra (3EC)
202001176 Statistics and Probability Theory for pre-masters (5EC)
202000260 Organization Theory (5EC)

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