Further studies and job market

After getting your Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design Engineering, you can specialise by pursuing a Master’s degree. Most students choose to do this. You can follow a Master’s at the University of Twente, at another Dutch university, or at a university abroad. Some bachelor’s graduates enter the job market straight away or start their own business.

Further studies

Most people who graduate from the Bachelor’s in IDE enter our two-year, English-taught Master’s in Industrial Design Engineering. This Master’s is a perfect follow-up to the Bachelor’s. Other popular choices are the Master's in Humanitarian Engineering and the Master's in Mechanical Engineering. With your Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design Engineering, you can enter most engineering & technology master’s, provided you first complete a pre-master’s programme. 

Other master’s, elsewhere in the Netherlands or abroad 

Of course, with your Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design Engineering you can also continue on to master’s in different fields, at other universities, in the Netherlands or abroad. 

A master’s, such as Biomedical Engineering, Interaction Technology, Sustainable Energy Technology, Environmental and Energy Management, Psychology, Philosophy, or Business Administration, is also possible. In most cases, you have to take a tailored pre-master’s first. This also applies to master’s at other (inter)national universities.

Finding a job after the Bachelor's in Industrial Design Engineering

Most students do not enter the job market until they have a Master's degree, although you can do so after your Bachelor's. Our programme equips you to design smart products, with an eye for the overall design process. You will find plenty of job opportunities, also in Twente, the fastest-growing industrial region in the Netherlands. You’re likely to end up working in a position in which you can, literally and figuratively, shape the future as a designer who is comfortable with all aspects of the product development process and can operate across the boundaries between different disciplines. 

• Engineering & production: In Engineering and production, you design new solutions for problems, systematically using your scientific knowledge. Do you enjoy working on process innovations? Then you could work as a product designer, or set to work as an enterprising technical designer at an engineering firm.
• Research & development: Some of our students set to work as researchers, for example, at a research institution, or at a Research & Development department in industry. A position at the university is also a possibility. As a researcher or product developer, you test existing knowledge and build on it. You systematically work on discovering new things that are important to industry and society.
• Management & consultancy: As a product leader, consultant or head of the development department at a large company, you bring together knowledge and skills from different areas of science. Your broad knowledge and central role enable you to contribute to new solutions in complex societal or industrial environments.  

Well-known companies that have hired graduates from our programme include Audi, Thales, Heinz, Unilever, Vredestein, Bang & Olufsen, and TNO.

Start your own company

You can also start your own business with a solution that you have developed. The UT enjoys recognition as ‘the most entrepreneurial university’ in the Netherlands. We are strong in the application of expertise to meaningfully influence society. Together with our students, we like to work with the innovation specialists from Novel-T, who like to tap into promising innovative business cases.

 Spin-offs from the Bachelor’s in Industrial Design Engineering

Examples of spin-offs that have come out of this programme include Aryzon, a producer of Augmented & Mixed Reality headsets, CodeSandbox, an online code editor for programmers, and Exintec, a technical consulting and support firm.