Business Information Technology
Winter intake start date
2026-02-01
Winter intake deadline
2025-11-25
Become an expert in IT-based business innovation, able to devise new services and radically improve the way businesses work with the use of IT.
Information Technologies continue to drastically change the way we live and work. In fact, businesses today cannot function without them, and numerous complex business challenges find their solutions in IT. For example, how can you align an entire supply chain, working with different IT systems of various stakeholders? In which ways can big data support decision-making processes? And how can you keep track of, and thereby improve, logistic processes with the use of sensor technologies? The Master’s in Business Information Technology at the University of Twente (UT) enables you to help businesses to become smarter, using innovative IT-based solutions.
Specialisations
Data Science and Business
Enterprise Architecture & IT Management
This two-year, English-taught Master’s offers the perfect balance between business management and IT. You will acquire a keen insight into complex business processes and organisations as well as in-depth knowledge of modern information systems and their underlying technologies. Through the latest scientific insights, you will gain expertise in areas such as IT architecture, IT-based business models, enterprise security, smart industry, data-driven decision support systems and IT management.
As a graduate in Business Information Technology, you will be perfectly suitable for a career at the interface between management and computer science. Every sector needs people who can build bridges between IT and business, and innovate businesses using IT resources. You will posses the skills to communicate and discuss with colleagues and external experts such as IT, marketing and financial specialists. You will have the know-how to make calculated decisions and to develop an implement methodical information systems from a scientific perspective. In short, making IT work for businesses will be your unique selling point.
CAREER PROSPECTS
IT is vital to all kinds of businesses. You could work for an IT end-user as a business operations analyst, IT manager, information architect or system tester, for example. Or for a consultancy firm or IT company as a strategy consultant, IT manager or project manager, taking part in various different projects. You might also aim for a career in research and development, or continue your studies as a PhD student. Or you may start a venture and become an entrepreneur. Your skills in IT, business, organizing and innovation will give you a great head start! Did you know that Booking.com, Takeaway.com (a.k.a. thuisbezorgd.nl), Distimo.com and many other leading innovative e-commerce companies were started by students at our campus?
