Master's Degree Programme in Industrial Management (in English): Studies starting in Autumn 2025

Descriptions

The professional knowledge of the degree brings the student to the forefront of knowledge in the Industrial Management field of work, focused on service business or logistics management. The course methodology enhances critical awareness, analysis and cross-fertilisation of interdisciplinary knowledge. The methodology fosters analytical and methodological skills as ways of applied problem-solving, aligned with systematic research. Including sustainability and possibilities provided by digitalisation in decision making is vital for tomorrow's professionals. Professional competence development for co-creative team communication and international multi-site collaboration prepare the graduate for complex and unpredictable challenges that require novel strategic approaches in the face of today's phenomena in business environment and society.

Master’s programme in Industrial Management is a customer-focused, industry-relevant and interactive one-year Master’s programme, built on the educational needs of current international business and industry. The MEng (Industrial Management) degree provides the participating student realistic opportunities to function as a thoughtful team leader and a proactive collaborator in professional networks, understanding sustainability requirements in today's business environment. A Master of Engineering in Industrial Management is a competent management professional in their own field as well as in service business management or logistics management.

The programme can be characterised by five principles. Industry-relevant competence development (1) is constructed in close interaction with stakeholders (companies, organisations, customers, alumni). The class itself is typically a set of 30 different companies, as participants with 3-10 years of experience are working while studying. The selected five focal industry-relevant competence areas, which are prioritised in the programme, are specified the curriculum.

The Master’s programme in IM is centred around building the participants’ Research and development competences (2), developing systematic procedures involving typical research approaches for IM. The student’s Master’s Thesis solves a relevant problem identified in a company and constructs a solution applicable in the case organisation. Knowledge transfer into status reports and other reports improve the participants’ communication skills in the development projects.

International competences (3) develop in the Master’s in IM programme by default of its name: the themes relate to international business, analysed by the case analyses of successful companies and best practice identified by international IM business research. Additionally, the culturally diverse class composition itself is an experiment of multicultural collaboration. International, diverse expert speakers bring in external perspectives. Interactive communication activities in various topics improve the students’ communication skills.

Fourthly, Master’s programme in IM provides the participant with tools and competences for Life-long learning (4). A personal competence assessment of professional development needs at the start of the programme guides the participant to identify their personality strengths and weaknesses, and build a professional development plan on the path to Leading self, team and organisation. This involves a selection of five key professional competences. Peer and mentor assessment is used to guide the competence development.

Finally, the IM programme broadens the engineering student´s expertise into areas of Multidisciplinary integration (5). All of the courses represent more than one discipline, for the reason that all projects incorporate a variety of content, competences and resources, and are thus integrated. Students' backgrounds include a variety of industries, from IT to electronics, mechanical engineering and pharmacy, among others. All the courses rely on collaborative teaching with several experts to provide the lectures. All research clinics rely on co-teaching and student mentoring from different disciplinary perspectives (IM, business, methodology, academic writing).

Industrial Management Master’s programme is a one-year program with 60 ECTS credits. The programme content is built on a holistic, integrated learning approach, which means that the instructed courses are interrelated, interconnected, and complementary to each other, and are studied in multiple pedagogical modes.

The programme is committed to improving the professional competences of each participant to Master's level, EQF level seven (7). Study activities promote these three focal competence areas:
1. Analytical, research and process development skills
2. Self, team and organisational leadership skills
3. Management communication skills

Development

The programme originates from a collaborative project with major companies and the Advisory Board of Industrial Management. Since 2006, the programme has been continuously reframed and revised based on input coming from industry and business, as well as on feedback by alumni and present students.

The Master's Thesis is carried out as a research and development project for the participant's company. Moreover, the participant completes several company analyses during the programme, including an analysis of strategy, customer orientation and learning organisation.

Further information

Copy of T1524S6 curriculum

Objective

The professional knowledge of the degree brings the student to the forefront of knowledge in the Industrial Management field of work, focused on service businesses or logistics management. The course methodology enhances critical awareness, analysis and cross-fertilisation of interdisciplinary knowledge. The methodology fosters analytical and methodological skills as ways of applied problem-solving, aligned with systematic research. Professional competence development for co-creative team communication and international multi-site collaboration prepares the graduate for complex and unpredictable challenges that require novel strategic approaches.