Master's programme Business and Engineering (in English)
Degree: Master of Engineering (M.Eng.)
Entrance Requirements: General and special qualification requirements (see below)
Language of Instruction: English
Duration: 3 Semester (start: Winter Semester)
THWS Location: Schweinfurt
Diploma Supplement: yes
Semester fees: Application fees (per application for applicants from non-EU countries): €50.00
Innovation cycles become shorter, the political and economical environment becomes more insecure. The acronym VUCA – Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity – summarises these new conditions. Volatility leads to uncertainty; changes become the rule. Interrelationships are becoming more complex, the information situation becomes more confusing and also more contradictory. Nevertheless, economic actors have to make economic and technical decisions.
The aim of the degree programme is to provide students with the necessary skills to work successfully in a world shaped by VUCA. In addition to specific technical competences, the degree programme teaches the skills to understand problems comprehensively and to solve them in an organised manner in interdisciplinary teams.
Programme Structure
Throughout their studies, students work within the framework of a guiding topic, which is newly selected for each cohort and which is addressed in each module. The research project that the students work on is also within in this context. In the first semester, the focus is not only on applied scientific work, but also on the holistic understanding of complex problems and the framework conditions for finding solutions. In the second semester, concepts are taught with which the students develop their own approaches to solving problems in their research projects. In the third semester, students concentrate on the elaboration of their research project in the master's thesis as well as its scientific presentation and discussion.
Career Perspectives
Graduates can be employed wherever interdisciplinary technical and economic integration and innovation tasks need to be solved in and between companies. The special added value for employers lies in the graduates' ability to develop solutions for complex problems in an environment characterised by volatility and uncertainty. The interdisciplinary education in a multicultural environment makes graduates particularly interesting for employment in international companies.
Additional Information
Completed university studies with 210 credit points and an overall grade of 2.5 or better in the field(s) of business and engineering (“Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen”), engineering sciences, economics, or logistics from a German university or an equivalent degree, of which at least 20 CP from the field of technology, in particular basic competences from the fields of electrical engineering, technical mechanics, material sciences, technical systems, and at least 20 CP from the field of economics, in particular basic competences from the fields of business administration, private law, external and managerial accounting.
To check if the requirements are met it is important that the MBEE application form provided on the website is completed and uploaded via the THWS Campusportal.
For more information about application and enrolment, please visit the pages of the Department of Student Affairs (HSST).
Contact person
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peik Bremer
Room 20.1.74
Konrad-Zuse-Straße 2
97421 Schweinfurt
Phone +49 9721 940-8667
Email peik.bremer[at]thws.de
Link to programme page Business and Engineering (in English)