The Swiss engineering master's degree

From materials procurement to the finished product, from market and customer analysis to service delivery: with an MSE degree in Business Engineering you will be prepared to successfully take on challenging tasks in industry or in the services sector.

Outline of profession

The MSE in Business Engineering will prepare you for a career in industrial or service enterprises or in consulting. You will work in the fields of business development and business engineering or in quality, risk, technology and innovation management. As a Business Engineer you will be responsible for the management of industrial goods and services, or for the operations and systems through which these goods and services are produced, e.g. logistics and supply chain management, life cycle management of products and facilities, and the use of analytical methods to answer questions in the fields of business and production. As a graduate of the Business Engineering profile, you will be prepared to extract relevant information from business data and use it, along with digital technologies, to transform business models and create new opportunities to generate revenues and value.
The MSE profile in Business Engineering teaches advanced problem solving and methodological skills to prepare students for a leading role in managing complex systems.

Profile contents

The Business Engineering profile includes a wide range of subject areas:

• Project Management
• Product Management
• Business Development
• Business and Data Analysis
• Supply Chain Management
• Production Management
• Technical Asset Management
• Quality Management
• Service Engineering
• Sales Engineering
• Risk and Reliability Engineering

Professional Skills

The MSE in Business Engineering will enable you to leverage engineering and design-centred approaches, business data analytics and digital technologies to define, develop, supply and sell products, solutions and services. Taking into account relevant technological and business constraints and opportunities and viewing issues from a risk, quality, and lifecycle perspective, you will be able to develop business models and to plan, analyse and manage relevant industrial and product-service systems. You will be able to professionally manage projects and lead small teams.

Entry skills and enrolment process

Specific qualifications are required to enrol in this profile. Students holding one of the following bachelor’s degrees with above-average marks generally fulfil these entry requirements.

• BSc in Industrial Engineering
• BSc in Business Engineering
• or equivalent BSc

Assessment of entry qualifications is part of the enrolment process of each school. Students who do not hold one of the above-mentioned bachelor’s degrees will be individually assessed for their suitability by the relevant University of Applied Sciences.

Recommended theory modules

The theory modules comprise 30 out of 90 ECTS. The modules are taught by professors from all over Switzerland at various locations. You will take these modules together with other MSE students. You can find the recommended theory modules for the MSE, Business Engineering profile here.

Additional skills relative to Bachelor of Science

Compared to graduates of a bachelor’s degree course, an MSE in Business Engineering enables you to acquire additional competencies in the application of scientific concepts, methods and tools. While BSc programs tend to focus on competencies required to work at an operational level, the MSE program also conveys skills needed to work at a more strategic level.

Discover more

Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS) offering the Business Engineering (BE) profile are shown below. Find out more about the courses of study at the individual UASs.