BSc in Industrial Engineering & Management
Groningen, Netherlands
DURATION
3 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
01 May 2025*
EARLIEST START DATE
01 Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 19,300 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* Dutch| EU/EEA and non-EU/EEA students
** for Non-EU|for EU/EEA EUR 2,530
Introduction
Industrial Engineering is a real engineers' degree, in which you learn to translate new industrial techniques into practical solutions, such as a more sustainable production process or new products.
In the Bachelor’s degree program in Industrial Engineering and Management (Technische Bedrijfskunde in Dutch), you learn how to analyze problems and develop, design, and apply solutions. You are first and foremost trained to become an industrial engineer, and you learn to look at the applicability of your solutions in the business world.
After all, a technical solution is only useable if you have thoroughly tested its feasibility. Imagine, for example, that you have developed a new method to keep pepper-flavored crisps fresh for longer. Does the production process still cost-efficient? Does the method fit into the production line? What do the company’s employees think of it? And do customers still find the crisps tasty?
The degree program is offered by the Faculty of Science and Engineering so you can be sure of lots of course units in maths, physics, and chemistry. In addition, you will follow course units in business studies, management, and logistics. Your technical know-how and your management insights will prepare you for jobs where technology and management meet. Embedding in business and society is a key element of this degree program.
International Bachelor’s program
The business world and the profession are becoming increasingly internationally oriented. Multinationals are introducing new products to the global market or want to open a factory abroad. These are all good reasons for offering this degree program in an international English-taught variant. Your fellow students and lecturers come from the Netherlands and abroad.
Why study this program in Groningen?
- In Groningen, you have the opportunity to study the perfect combination of technology and business. In this way, you can combine technical solutions with entrepreneurship! As a result, a Bachelor's degree from Groningen will grant you many possibilities for your future.
- Of all of the degree programs in Industrial Engineering and Management across the Netherlands, the one taught in Groningen is the most technical: 2/3 of your time will be spent on course units focusing on technology and the technical sciences, and 1/3 on course units in business subjects.
- Our Faculty has produced two Nobel Prize winners: Ben Feringa won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Frits Zernike was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Curriculum
Courses
- Calculus 1 (for IEM)
- Calculus 2 (for IEM)
- Dynamics of Engineering Systems
- Global supply chain management
- Industrial Marketing
- Linear Algebra (for IEM)
- Management accounting
- Materials and Molecules
- Organizational Behaviour and Group Dynamics
- Programming, Modelling, and Simulation
- Statistics and Stochastics
- System Dynamics
Curriculum
Two-thirds of the degree program in Industrial Engineering and Management is comprised of course units focusing on the technical sciences, and one-third of course units focus on business subjects.
In the first year, you will learn the basics of programming and you will also learn how to create models and simulations, with an eye to designing products and production processes. In addition, you will explore the chemical and physical aspects of materials and molecules. The course units on business and management provide an introduction to industrial marketing and management accounting, among other topics.
Apart from the content-based course units, you will receive study-related and personal support from experienced student coaches in your learning community.
Later on, in the degree program, you will choose a track: Sustainable Process Engineering or Production Technology and Logistics. You will complete your Bachelor's program with a final project, in which you solve a concrete technical problem for a company.
Program options
- Production Technology and Logistics (track)
- Sustainable Process Engineering (track)
Study abroad
Study abroad is optional
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Career Opportunities
Job prospects
Once you have completed the three-year Bachelor's program and have your degree, you may continue with the Master's degree program to study your field in greater depth. A Master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Management will open many doors to you in many different companies and organizations, from multinationals to consultancy firms, in the Netherlands and further afield.
Your technical know-how and your management insights will prepare you for jobs where technology and management meet. You will feel at home in companies and organizations interested in innovation, searching for new opportunities by integrating technologies.
Product manager and process technologist are jobs often offered to our graduates. You could also work in a hospital, investigating how to use research equipment better. Some graduates end up in the service sector or working for the government. Ultimately, virtually all of our graduates find jobs immediately after graduating.
Business sectors that you could enter as a process technologist, for example, include the production industry (from car manufacturers to shaving products) as well as the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. You will have a vast knowledge of production processes and chemical processes but, because you will also have thorough business training, you will be able to reach a management position faster. One interesting field is our future energy supply. Think of companies developing and improving solar panels, or generating electricity from biomass. You don’t have to stand in a lab yourself as long as you are able to translate the results of research into useful information for the rest of the company.
Job examples
- Manager
- Consultant
- Industrial-process expert
- Positions in the pharmaceutical industry