Entry requirements
Business Information Systems (MSc Information Studies)
Direct admission
You are directly admitted for the BIS track programme, if you have an average final grade of 7 or higher and a Dutch academic Bachelor's degree in Information Studies (Informatiekunde).
Relevant Bachelor's degrees
You will qualify for the Business Information Systems track of the Master Programme Information Studies if you have a relevant bachelor's degree and an average final grade of 7 or higher*.
Typical examples of bachelor programmes that may provide access to our master programme are:
- Information Studies,
- Business IT Management,
- Business Informatics,
- Information Engineering,
- ICT and Business.
Bachelors graduates from Universities of Applied Sciences (HBOs) will have to follow a pre-master course in Academic Skills before starting the master programme.
Students that have a Bachelor's degree in a related field, may qualify after following a pre-master programme.
If you have a Bachelor's degree in a different field than mentioned above, you may also be eligible for this programme, due to e.g. work experience. Please contact the BIS Programme Manager if you have any questions concerning your eligibility.
*Dutch grading system; equivalent of 3.0 in US system, 2:1 in UK system, C in ECTS system.
Pre-master
Examples of related bachelor programmes and corresponding pre-master courses are:
This table is intended to give an indication. Students will be admitted on individual basis, depending on their study programme and their results and motivation.
Please check the section 'Pre-Master's programme' for details.
Required knowledge and skills
Students that enter our master programme need to posses the knowledge and skills on the topics that are listed below. Students that can prove to have acquired knowledge and skills during their studies may ask for exemption of the pre-master modules.
Business Studies
Management theories
- Introduction to management theory
- Business Strategy (Porter, Prahalet & Hamel, Nonaka)
- Business Control
Roles of the manager in a business context
- Organizational theories
- Organization typologies
- Organizational Structures
- Organizational Cultures
- Lifecycles
Organizational change theories
- Aspects of Organizational Change
- Change Management
Economical aspects
- Activity based costing
- Total cost of ownership
- Depricing strategies
- Benefits, Profits, Prices, Costs and Investments
- Productivity Paradox (Brynjolffson)
ICT in Organizations
Modelling and design (including basic knowledge on UML)
- Use Case modelling
- Introduction to process modelling (Activity Diagrams)
- Introduction to modelling communication process (Sequence Diagrams)
- Data structures (UML Data structures)
- Architecture and infrastructure
Introduction to IT-principles and layered architecture models
- The professional Information Architect
- Infrastructural thinking (Duncan)
Sourcing
- Introduction to Sourcing of Services and Infrastructures
- Contracts (SLAs, Tendering)
Perspectives on Information Management
- Introduction of the role of information in a business context
- The role of the information manager
Research methods and academic skills
- Statistics
- Basic research methods
- Academic writing