Master in Business engineering [120.0] - INGE2M

The four universities of the Louvain Academy (UCL, FUNDP, FUCaM and FUSL) have created a management school, the Louvain School of Management (LSM). It is the largest school of management in Belgium with over 1,200 students and more than 200 lecturers. Alongside the International Executive MBA and the doctoral school programmes, the Louvain School of Management organizes different Master in Management Science programmes in each of the partner universities. UCL provides the Master in Business Engineering (120), the Master in Management Science (120), the Master in Management (60) over a year, available both as a day course and on a part-time basis over two years.

Firmly rooted in the world of business, these Masters enable students to build up their own "à la carte" programme or to specialize through a very wide selection of option courses. Certain option course are entirely in English.

The Master in Business Engineering is a two-year management programme which is designed to strengthen the management skills of students who have already gained a first qualification in science and technology. It is designed to provide them with the skills and knowledge which will enable them to fully understand the complex and varied issues that companies in the knowledge economy have to face. They also have the possibility of specializing in functional or cross-disciplinary areas of management as well as preparing for doctoral level research.

Against this background, the Master in Business Engineering places special emphasis on the development of skills which will enable students to :

1.      model and formalize problems and management situations with a view to finding solutions and improvements (management science ;

2.      in the industrial world, to make use of technological processes and be able to manage them ;

3.      to understand the complexity of the issues facing innovative businesses and be able to manage them ;

4.      to make use of technology and innovation in ‘socially responsible’ management techniques.

In the same way as other students of the Louvain School of Management, future Masters in Business Engineering will :

1.      have the general knowledge that any business should expect from a management student ;

2.      demonstrate initiative and independence in decision-taking (with teaching methods geared to problem resolution) ;

3.      have practical experience of business (through the work placement and classes with many entrepreneurs and managers) ;

4.      have developed the ability to work in an international environment ;

5.      will be familiar with team work.

The Business Engineering programme is made up of courses with a professional or research focus, special subjects or courses, an exchange programme as well as a dissertation, a work placement and compulsory courses from the core subjects of the programme. During the first year, students attend courses linked to the professional or research focus and to the specialized option courses. The exchange and the core subjects are done in the second year.

In the first year, students first choose a professional or research focus worth 30 credits:

• The professional focus develops skills in management functions. There is a group of courses on project management and technological innovation.  
• The research focus is designed for students who wish to prepare for a doctorate in management science or a wider field and to gain an introduction to methods and areas of basic and applied research in management.

Students must also choose two option courses for 15 credits each in the same special subject which will enable them to specialize in a cross-disciplinary or functional area. Certain option courses are entirely in English (EN), others partly in English and partly in French (EN/FR). Certain special subjects are available at the Louvain-la-Neuve campus whilst others are at Mons and Namur. Students who do not wish to specialize will only be able to choose from the basic option courses from each special subject of the Louvain School of Management (LLN-Mons-Namur).

Among the special subjects available at Louvain-la-Neuve from which the student can choose are : Innovation (EN/FR), Environmental Management (FR), Supply Chain Management (EN), Business Finance (EN/FR), Strategic Marketing (EN/FR) and Entrepreneurship (EN/FR).
UCL students from the LSM may also take advantage of the additional option courses available at the School’s partner universities : Service Management (FUNDP-Namur), Information Management (FUNDP-Namur),  Market Finance (FUNDP-Namur), Operational Marketing (FUNDP-Namur) , Portfolio Management (FUCaM-Mons), Advanced Approaches and Methods in Marketing (FUCaM-Mons).

During the second year, students may do an exchange visit worth 30 credits to pursue their specialization. Depending on the subjects chosen in the first year, students may also finish   off their training by gaining the CEMS-MIM degree (Master in International Management), or spend a whole year at one of our partner universities and gaining a “double degree" (KULeuven, Universität zu Köln, Helsinki School of Economics, Fundaçao Getulio Vargas, Brazil.)

Students must also devote 30 credits to:

• a project dissertation related to the specialization;  either a project dissertation enabling the student to make a contribution to the solution of a real problem which occurs or could occur in one or more organizations (see www.uclouvain.be/8155.html for further information), or a research dissertation for the research focus;
• a business placement. This may or may not be linked to the dissertation or a research placement in one of the Louvain School of Management’s centres of excellence;
• a course on corporate social responsibility
• a seminar on current economic and management issues.

Whatever focuses and option courses are chosen, the programme for this Master must come to a minimum of 120 credits, spread over two years of study.  This corresponds to 60 credits per year.

Advanced Master : Advanced Master in Financial Risk Management (Facultés universitaires St Louis)

Doctoral programmes :  doctorate in Management Science