In today’s corporate world, almost all aspects of business – from administration, finance and customer contact to factory design and machine maintenance – are intricately intertwined with information technology. In this challenging Bachelor’s, you will get what it takes to help companies – including their employees, machines and processes – to perform better and more sustainably in our rapidly digitalising society. You will soon feel at home in business administration, covering disciplines such as business modelling, finance engineering and project management.
You will also become an IT expert with knowledge of programming, software design, the interaction between humans and technology, or workflow management systems allowing you to automate logistical, administrative and financial business processes within an organisation. This bachelor will help you understand the problems and challenges companies can face, and will equip you with the skills needed to solve them by designing and implementing effective, future-oriented complex socio-technical and cyber-physical systems.
Study overview
Finance for Engineers15
Intelligent Interaction Design15
From Product Design to online Business15
Business Innovation through IT Project15
Electives15
Electives15
BIT INC.15
Research Project15
First time at university
When you are a first-year student, you experience many new things. Here we start explaining at least a few of them.
During your three-year bachelor's programme, you will take 12 modules (4 modules per year). Each module, you will address a theme that is hot in society, business or industry. This theme will bring together all the components of your study: theory and practice, research, designing solutions, self-study and teamwork.
A fixed part of every module is the team project, in which you and your teammates apply the knowledge you have acquired to a current challenge and design a workable solution. This learning method is part of the Twente Education Model (TOM): an innovative approach to studying that you will only find at the University of Twente.
Study points - how do they work? Student workload at Dutch universities is expressed in EC, also named ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System), which is widely used throughout the European Union. In the Netherlands, each credit represents 28 hours of work. You need to acquire 60 credits each year.
You will receive credits for every assignment you pass. Your programme assigns fixed numbers of hours to each assignment, project report or exam. In the first year, you need to get at least 45 out of 60 points to be able to continue to the second year.
Did you obtain 45 or more credit points? Then you can continue to the 2nd year Our aim is to get you in the right place as soon as possible, which is why we use the principle of a binding recommendation. You will receive a positive recommendation if you have obtained 45 or more of the 60 EC in the first year. A negative recommendation is binding and means you have to leave the programme. Under certain circumstances, we may give you a positive recommendation despite a low score. For example, if we are confident that you are in the right place.
Do personal circumstances such as illness or problems interfere with your study performance? Student Affairs Coaching & Counselling (SACC) is there to support you.
