This page contains information about admission procedures, general information about admission, requirements, FAQs and information about enrollment.
General information admission procedures
To apply for a TU/e Master program, you need a Bachelor’s degree based on a program of sufficient academic level and quality. Please choose one of the following options:
I have a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) from:
For specific information about admission for Bachelors of universities to IM, please click on 'Bachelor students universities' on the left menu.
A Dutch institute of professional higher education (HBO) (for specific information about hbo admission to Operations Management & Logistics, see also the information 'After Polytechnics/hbo to the Master IM').
After Polytechnics/hbo to the Master IM
As a hbo (Higher Professional Education) graduate, you cannot directly begin the Innovation Management Master’s course since your hbo program will have emphasized other aspects whereby you lack theoretical physics and mathematics knowledge. To be admitted to the master’s program as a hbo graduate, you will need to follow a pre-Master program.
This pre-Master program is intended to raise the scientific level of the Bachelor and is customized. The pre-Master program comprises in part compulsory subjects from the second and third years if the Bachelor course.
The various hbo diploma’s that make you eligible to be admitted to the Master program are:
- Car Engineering
- Aviation (Hogeschool Amsterdam)
- Construction engineering
- Construction Management Business Engineering (Hogeschool INHolland)
- Chemical Technology
- Civil Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Electrical Engineering (Higher)
- Computer Science Industrial Automation (HU)
- Royal Naval Institute*
- Logistics and Transport ScienceAviation Technology (Hogeschool INHolland)
- Media Technology (Hogeschool Utrecht)
- Shipbuilding
- Industrial Engineering and Management Science
- Applied Physics Aircraft Engineering (Commercial)
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mechatronics
* If you enter with this pre-Master’s, you will be exempt from the subjects Calculus and Statistics in the standard pre-Master program.
If you have followed a different pre-Master’s course, admission may also be possible. In such a case, send an e-mail to the secretary of the Admissions Board, via info-msc@remove-this.tue.nl, adding a list of certified copies of your relevant diploma and hbo subjects as well as a summary of the content of the subjects.
General requirements and facts
There are a number of general requirements and facts for admission to Master’s degree programs:
The best fit in prior education is a degree in Industrial Engineering. Admission to the Innovation Management Master program is only possible with a degree in one of the engineering sciences. You must have a relevant Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent), based on a program of sufficient academic level and quality to enable you to complete the TU/e Master’s degree program to which you wish to be admitted. To find more information about the admission for students from a non-research (non-PhD) university (such as 'Hogescholen' in the Netherlands and 'Fachhochschulen' in Germany). You must be able to demonstrate sufficient command of English by submitting an Academic IELTS or TOEFL test. For the required scores or exemptions, you can contact the TU/e admissions office (admissions@tue.nl).
Enrolment
Do you want to enroll for this Master program? Please click on this website for more information.
If you have questions about admission and enrolment, you can contact the TU/e Student Service Center , telephone number: (040) 247 4747.
