To apply for a TU/e Master's program, you need a Bachelor’s degree based on a program of sufficient academic level and quality. Please find below several scenarios for enrollment and check which one applies to your situation.
- You have direct admission to the TU/e’s Innovation Management Master program if you have completed a Bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering and Management Science at Eindhoven University of Technology.
- Other TU/e Bachelors can enroll straightaway if they have chosen the "Innovation management for non-IE" coherent package in their bachelor curriculum (read here for more details).
- If you have completed a Bachelor's program a Dutch university (other than TU/e), the transfer matrix site (http://doorstroommatrix.nl/) provides a preliminary overview of programmes that may be considered as potential programs that could qualify for enrollment in the Innovation Management pre-master program. However, additional requirements apply, please see the “enrollment criteria for non-TU/e” below.
- If you have completed a Bachelor's program at a foreign university, please see the “enrollment criteria for non-TU/e” below. Because you will receive a two-year work permit, the master program should be completed within this time frame and your deficiency on enrollment can be max. 15 ECTS. This is determined by the admissions board (see below).
- If you have completed a Bachelor’s program at a Dutch HBO (university of Higher Professional Education, or University of Applied Sciences), this does not qualify you for direct admission to the Innovation Management Master program. You will first need to follow the entire 30 ECTS Innovation Management pre-master program (see the program on the right-hand side). Students of a range of HBO programmes may be admitted to the pre-master program Innovation Management. The transfer matrix site (http://doorstroommatrix.nl/) provides a preliminary overview of programmes that may be considered as potential pre-university programs that could qualify for enrollment in the Innovation Management pre-master program. However, additional requirements apply, please see the “enrollment criteria for non-TU/e” below.
Enrollment criteria for non-TU/e:
In order to be admitted to the Master program Innovation Management, you will be required to have the following academic background:
- A bachelor degree in business-related social sciences (e.g., business administration, marketing, organization science, communication science, entrepreneurship, psychology, sociology) with a minor (or electives) of at least 15 ECTS in an engineering domain (e.g., statistics, calculus, mathematics, programming, material science, electrical engineering, quantitative modeling, etc.).
- A bachelor degree in an engineering domain with a minor (or electives) of at least 20 ECTS in business-related social sciences (e.g., business administration, marketing, organization science, communication science, entrepreneurship, psychology, sociology).
More specifically, you should have gained knowledge in at least two (but preferably more) of the following six areas:
- New Product Development (e.g., new product key success factors, stage-gate approach and practicalities, fuzzy front end management, portfolio management, new product development control and performance metrics, development teams, market entry timing decisions, launch decisions)
- Marketing (e.g., strategic marketing planning, segmenting-targeting-positioning, marketing instruments, market research)
- Human Resource Management (e.g., individual differences and personnel selection, work performance, job analysis, and performance evaluation, work motivation, attitudes, emotions, stress, leadership)
- Modelling of Business and Information Technology Processes (e.g., data models, UML, business process model (notation), Petri nets, information systems life cycle models, business requirement analysis, analytics and decision support systems, SMART, heuristics, Bayes, Delphi)
- Statistics (e.g., continuous distributions. expected value, variance, Central Limit Theorem, discrete simultaneous distributions, covariance, correlation, normally distributed variables, estimation theory (unbiased, mean squared error), confidence intervals (for mean, variance of a normal distribution and of a fraction), prediction intervals, hypothesis testing (type I and type II error, p-value, choice of sample size), multiple regression)
- Business Research Methodology (e.g., problem solving cycle, research cycle, theory, model, hypotheses, variable, causality, research designs (experiment, survey, case study, observation, archival study), research design choices (incl. unit of analysis, sampling / case selection), basics of quantitative data collection (e.g. survey scales) and analysis (descriptive statistics), basics of qualitative data collection (e.g. interviews) and analysis (coding), quality criteria for research (controllability, reliability, validity), research ethics)
All applicants need to submit either a grade list with an official GPA score included or submit a GPA calculation with the application. The GPA should be based on all results of full courses in the bachelor degree (i.e., assignment or subproject results do not count). A template for GPA calculation can be found here.
Following your application, the Innovation Management Admissions Board will decide on your enrollment. Note that students from a University of Applied Science (HBO) can be admitted when they adhere to the “enrollment criteria for non-TU/e”, but they will always have to follow and complete the entire premaster program (30 ECTS) and cannot apply for exemptions.
For more information on enrollment, send an email to the secretary of the Admissions Board, via ftc-ieis@tue.nl, adding a list of certified copies of your relevant diploma and bachelor subjects as well as a summary of the content of the subjects. |
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PRE-MASTER PROGRAM
The pre-master program consists of 30 ECTS and is aimed at compensating deficiencies, with a particular focus on your academic attitude, knowledge of innovation theory, and research competence. Your knowledge will also be supplemented in specific areas with, for instance, mathematics and statistics as well as management disciplines. The program is only offered in Q1 and Q2, and for 2020-2021, the structure is as follows:
2DL15
Calculus & Probability Theory
(2.5 ECTS) |
2DD80
Statistics
(5 ECTS) |
1JP00
Work and Organizational
Psychology: Basic
(2.5 ECTS) |
1BK60
Algorithmic Programming
(5 ECTS) |
1ZEUA0
New Product Marketing
(5 ECTS) |
1JZK40
Designing Business Processes
(5 ECTS)
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1ZV60
Research Methods
(5 ECTS) |
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