Business Analytics and Operations Research
Winter intake start date
2025-02-01
Winter intake deadline
2024-11-25
Learn to merge business, mathematics and statistics with advanced data science and optimization methods. After graduation, you will be ready to take on a wide range of applications, including inventory management, recommendation systems, vehicle routing, and scheduling.
Combine the fields of business, mathematics and statistics to make smarter management decisions based on quantitative tools and data.
- Learn theory and state of the art methods to solve complex business problems, with the focus on optimization methods and techniques for analyzing (big) data, and making predictions.
- Learn to identify and analyze unpredictable problems and opportunities in a tactical, strategic, creative and innovative way.
- A strong connection to practice is made. Examples of applications:
- In logistics: fastest trip and route planning, supply chain optimization, and effective inventory management.
- In the medical field: efficiently allocating donor kidneys and optimizing tumor treatment plans
- In the public sector: optimizing train schedules and determining the optimal dike height for flood prevention.
- Develop skills to communicate your findings efficiently with decision makers, while discussing real business cases of companies with both academics and professionals.
- In the first semester of the regular program, you can apply for the following additional advanced programs:
- The Extended Master's Program, which adds a traineeship of half a year to the regular Master's program.
- The QTEM network program, which adds an additional year to the program which you spend at a QTEM partner university and corporate partner.
Typical courses are:
- Data Science Methods
- Optimization
- Decision Making with Business Analytics
- Decision Making under Uncertainty
Rankings
#11 worldwide in Business and Economics Times Higher Education Ranking, 2016
#37 worldwide in Economics & Econometrics - QS World University Rankings
#1 in it's field according to Elsevier Best Studies
#12 in Europe in Economics & Business - Academic Ranking of World Universities
#18 in the world in Economics and Business - Global Universities Ranking US News, 2016
Na studia magisterskie mogą kandydować wszyscy, którzy ukończyli studia licencjackie lub inżynierskie (studia I stopnia), studia magisterskie lub studiują na ostatnim roku studiów I-stopnia. Studia, które planujesz powinny mieć zbliżony profil do tych obecnych lub ukończonych, ponieważ w procesie rekrutacji kluczowa jest ich zgodność programowa.
- Wykaz punktów ECTS – osoby, które są jeszcze w trakcie studiów, muszą załączyć wypis punktów ECTS, w którym będzie wykazane, jakie przedmioty były realizowane na studiach oraz ile punktów za nie otrzymano.
- Dyplom ukończenia studiów licencjackich lub inżynierskich – jeśli jesteś absolwentem wyższej uczelni, nie potrzebujesz wypisu, wystarczy załączyć dyplom ukończenia studiów wraz z suplementem (w języku angielskim lub oryginał z tłumaczeniem)
- Uwaga! Każdy kierunek magisterski może mieć inne wymagania i wymagać specyficznych dodatkowych dokumentów. Przed aplikacją sprawdź na stronie uczelni, jakich dokumentów potrzebujesz!
Spełnienie wymagań w zakresie języka angielskiego można udokumentować w następujący sposób:
- IELTS – 6.5
- TOEFL – 90
A Bachelor degree in Econometrics and Operations Research or similar discipline from a university recognized by the Admissions Board. We require you to have a solid academic background in mathematics and probability theory.
Applicants must pass GRE test. Exception applies to people who graduated from Vilnius University faculty of Economics (or Tilburg University's partner institution in other countries). Our incoming students usually score above the 75% percentile on the GRE General test. The GRE institution code for Tilburg University is 0730.
ATTENTION! The last date to send ALL th documents is July 1st. An application withouth English test certificate will not be up for consideration untill the University will get your English results.
The program Business Analytics and Operations Research is one of the programs with the best career prospects. Business Analytics and Operations Research professionals are currently in very high demand, and the demand is predicted to increase even further. Hence, your career perspectives are excellent!
The quantitative modelling expertise that you will have gained will open up extensive career opportunities for you in the private sector, as well as in the public and non-profit sectors. Your degree prepares you for a career as Business Analytics or Operations Research specialist, in a consultancy firm, a software company, and many other companies.
You will also be in an excellent position to pursue a PhD in Operations Research or any related field,or the 2-years Professional Doctorate Program in Data Science, which is jointly offered by Tilburg University and Eindhoven University of Technology.
Our alumni work within Operations Research firms like Quintiq, Ortec, and CQM; logistics or general consultancy firms like KPMG and McKinsey; Operations Research departments in companies like Dutch Railways, KLM, and Shell; and firms developing logistics software like SAP, Oracle, and Incontrol. Examples of employers and job titles of our recent graduates are the following:
- Supply Chain Consultant at OM Partners
- Implementation Consultant at ORTEC
- Life Cycle Management Analyst at Philips Healthcare
- Optimization Algorithm Expert at Quintiq
- Quantitative Analyst at Rabobank Nederland
- Quantitative Researcher at Robeco
- Consultant at Quintiq
- Supply Chain Consultant at ORTEC
- Risk Manager at Cardano
- Supply Chain Specialist at Bavaria
- Consultant at Fabory Group
