Courses 
Mandatory courses
- Catch up courses for filling in deficiencies (if applicable)
A maximum of two courses can be individually assigned by the admissions committee, depending on your educational background (it is therefore very important to submit your diploma and a course list along with your application (see General info - Admission procedure). This does not apply to students with Bachelor’s degrees achieved at the Utrecht University's Department of Information and Computing Sciences.
- In-depth courses
Six courses (45 ECTS) in total. This section always contains the four mandatory Master’s in Business Informatics courses (Extended Enterprise, Enterprise Information Architecture, Method Engineering, Knowledge Management), plus two optional courses taken from the Master’s in Business Informatics programme (e.g. Supply Chain Management, Business Process Management, ICT Entrepreneurship, Diffusion of Innovations in IT and New Media, Advanced Research Methods, Management Control, Finance).
- Thesis project (40 ECTS) + colloquium (5 ECTS)
Optional courses
The amount of optional courses enables students to choose their own ‘individual accents’. The student can select a total of 120 ECTS for the entire programme. These courses belong to the Information Science Master’s (Business Informatics, Content and Knowledge Engineering) or the Computing Science Master’s (Software Technology, Game and Media Technology etc.). In addition, courses from other Master’s programmes or sometimes courses at the so-called ‘level 3’ of particular Bachelor’s programmes are allowed, but only a maximum of two and they must be approved by the study advisor and/or programme coordinator. Individual assignments (’Capita Selecta’) are also possible.
Active acquisition of knowledge and experience, individually as well as in groups, is a key focus of the Master’s programme in Business Informatics. To encourage this, students participate in workshops, excursions, joint research projects, the business incubator and a management game.