Master of ICT and Business innovation

Level
Duration
Study load
Study costs

Master
2 years
20 hours
€21.400,-

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This programme could be right for you if:

  • You want to select targeted ICT solutions that add value to your company’s objectives
  • You want to manage appropriate IT solutions in order to guarantee business continuity
  • You want to be able to advise at tactical and strategic level, convince and commit based on thorough analyses 
 

The MBI programme is for professionals who want to develop themselves and to mature to Master level. This may be either in your own job or in a new position as a subsequent step in your career. The interface between business and ICT is your domain. You have the ambition to employ ICT and ICT solutions to make a contribution to the realisation of organisational objectives. You want to think strategically and innovatively and act with an eye for the continuity of organisational processes. You want to learn to use ICT developments to realise transformations and innovations, to generate new business models, or to solve social issues. The MBI is for professionals who work for commercial or social organisations or the government.

Developments in the field of digitalisation, such as Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, augmented reality, platforming, eHealth, security, privacy and the digital dichotomy require new approaches of innovation, development and management. You are confronted with all this, and of everything, you think: ‘I need to do something with this’. The Master of ICT and Business Innovation (MBI) teaches you all this. Are you ready for it?

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The MBI programme is for professionals who want to develop themselves and to mature to Master level. This may be either in your own job or in a new position as a subsequent step in your career.

The interface between business and ICT is your domain.

You have the ambition to employ ICT and ICT solutions to make a contribution to the realisation of organisational objectives. You want to think strategically and innovatively and act with an eye for the continuity of organisational processes. You want to learn to use ICT developments to realise transformations and innovations, to generate new business models, or to solve social issues.

The MBI is for professionals who work for commercial or social organisations or the government.

Practically-oriented learning

As in all Avans+ programmes, the MBI revolves primarily around your own practice. Your workplace is the subject of your assignments, business projects, and professional products. In this way, you immediately employ your education for your organisation, and you learn to convert theory into practical improvement. Moreover, your fellow students learn from your organisation and you learn from theirs. Each module is concluded with an individual assignment or a business project that you carry out with your fellow students.

A careful balance between practice and theory

During the two-weekly meetings, you discuss theory and practice, work together with your fellow students on assignments, and are supervised by lecturers. You prepare for these meetings by studying knowledge clips and literature independently and completing assignments. The lecturers are expert in their subject and work in strategic (business and ICT) jobs. They know from their experience how to make a perfect transfer from theoretical insights to your practice and professional activity. Your fellow students are professionals from the same domain who have the same attitude and ambition as you. By sharing and creating knowledge with them, you further shape your own development.

Besides this, Avans+ of course also provides you with individual supervision/coaching and reflection.

Do you want to know more about the structure of the programme? Please request a brochure.

The MBI lasts for two years, including practically-oriented investigation and the Master’s thesis. All the master classes have a duration of eight weeks.

Sixteen weeks are planned for the practically-oriented investigation and the Master’s thesis. The average study load is 20 hours per week, including the two-weekly meetings. The course is modular. You can accelerate by doing the master classes as self-study in the summer holiday. You can also reduce the load by spreading your study over three years. We agree this with each other in a study contract that is modifiable, but not free of obligations, so that you, your fellow students and the lecturers can trust that you only participate in the master classes if you can also put effort into them.

Do you want to know more about the structure of the programme? Please request a brochure.

Below you will find an overview of the costs of the Master of ICT & Business Innovation (MBI) course:

Programme fees: € 21.400,-.

Books: approx. € 1.500,-. You purchase these yourself.

Arrangement charges € 1.530,-.

You will receive an invoice for this before the programme starts.

All sums stated exclude VAT. Programme fees are exempt from VAT. All other costs incur VAT at 9%.

Life-long Learning Credit

Students in this Bachelor Software Engineer programme may come into consideration for a Life-long Learning Credit. This means that you can receive a loan from the government to take the programme, if you meet the conditions.

Information about conditions and application procedure Life-long Learning Credit

Subsidy

Based on this programme, your employer could come into consideration for Subsidy of Practical Learning (SPL). This is a subsidy of up to €2,700 per person per year for the duration of the arrangement. Please see the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RvO) website for more information.

 See the website of the RvO for more information.

After completing the separate master classes, you receive a certificate.

Once you have successfully completed this MBI, you receive the certificate from Avans+ and you obtain the MBI degree. You may also use the title MSc. This professional Master’s degree is accredited by the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO), CROHO:70119.

If you have any questions about this programme or could do with some advice to make a choice, please contact the information and advice department via  info@avansplus.nl or 088-9098000.

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Programme

The MBI comprises six master classes and the Master’s thesis. You can also do the master classes as independent units in order to compose your own study path. You complete the Master’s with a practically-oriented investigation about which you write a concise Master's thesis. The master classes are divided across two years.

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Year 1: Responsible Innovation

The following master classes are held in year 1:

+ Digital Transformation and Innovation
+ Organisation and Information
+ Design Thinking and Project Management
+ Security and Privacy

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Year 2: Strategic Change

The following master classes are held in year 2:

+ Information strategy, governance and enterprise architecture

+ Organisational change

+ Master’s Thesis

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Two continuous lines of learning

In all the master classes in years 1 and 2, attention is continuously paid to the development of your personal leadership and to methods and techniques of practically-oriented investigation. Development of personal leadership makes you able to get innovative changes accepted and implemented. Becoming familiar with the methods and techniques of practically-oriented investigation allows you to research new situations and technologies and to reflect methodically on existing working methods or implemented changes.