The Master’s in Construction Management & Engineering is a full-time study programme that consists of two years, in which you will collect a total of 120 EC. In your first year and the first quartile of the second year, you will follow (elective) courses and you will end your Master’s by writing your master’s thesis.
European Credit Transfer System
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.
What your curriculum will look like exactly, depends on the choices you make in composing your Master’s. For example, you will choose one of the two profiles around which you will build your Master’s:
- Digital Technologies in Construction
- Markets & Organisation of Construction
Within these profiles, you will compose a set of courses that match your interests and ambitions. There is plenty of elective space! You can choose courses offered at UT (of the Master’s in Civil Engineering & Management or the Master’s in Industrial Design Engineering, for example), but moreover, you can follow courses at Eindhoven University of Technology or Delft University of Technology. Find out what your curriculum looks like by choosing a profile first.
Digital Technologies in Construction | Number of EC | |
Profile courses
You choose at least five of the following courses. | 25 EC | |
Profile electives You can choose any course that is related to your profile, offered at either the University of Twente, Eindhoven University of Technology or Delft University of Technology. These are mostly courses in Civil Engineering & Management, but you can also choose courses of other programmes that fit the profile. | 40 EC | Examples of UT courses that fit this profile perfectly, include: |
Free electives You can fill up the rest of your elective space with any course that matches your interests, either at UT or another partner university in the Netherlands or even abroad! | 15 EC | |
Master’s thesis Your master’s thesis is 30 EC. You will prepare for your thesis during the course Preparation Master Thesis, which is 5 EC. | 40 EC | |
Total EC | 120 EC | |
Markets & Organisation of Construction | Number of EC | |
Profile courses
You choose at least five of the following courses. | 25 EC | |
Profile electives You can choose any course that is related to your profile, offered at either the University of Twente, Eindhoven University of Technology or Delft University of Technology. These are mostly courses in Civil Engineering & Management, but you can also choose courses of other programmes that fit the profile. | 40 EC | Examples of UT courses that fit this profile perfectly, include: |
Free electives You can fill up the rest of your electives space with any course that matches your interests, either at UT or another partner university in the Netherlands or even abroad! | 15 EC | |
Master’s thesis Your master’s thesis is 30 EC. You will prepare for your thesis during the course Preparation Master Thesis, which is 5 EC. | 40 EC | |
Total EC | 120 EC | |
Master’s thesis
You will end your Master’s in Construction Management & Engineering with your master’s thesis. The choice of your graduation subject is largely up to you – and the profile you’ve chosen. You could, for example, focus on sustainability and circularity, urban planning and governance, digitisation, procurement strategies, simulations using BIM, international collaboration, or risk management, to name just a few of the many available topics within this Master’s.
Most students complete their graduation project at an external organisation, either in the Netherlands or abroad. This is a highly recommended option since it is a great opportunity to combine your academic skills with experience in the professional field.
Your master’s thesis could involve undertaking projects such as:
Digital Technologies in Construction
- Using Building Information Modelling (BIM) to automate environmental impact assessments on infrastructure design, in order to determine the degree of sustainability of an infrastructure project.
- Optimising the design of wind turbine foundations by building a machine learning model that can predict the performance of different design alternatives.
Markets & Organisation of Construction
- Analysing the current use of circular economy principles in construction-related policies and procurement practices of municipalities and providing recommendations for improvement.
- Coming up with a documentation strategy for engineering firms in order to work in a transparent and traceable way, something that is increasingly required in today’s world.
