Launch your start-up with Start.VUB
Are you planning to start your own business? Or are you interested in entrepreneurship? Start.VUB offers help and support for entrepreneurial VUB students.
Forming student entrepreneurs
The world needs innovators and entrepreneurs. Feel like starting up a business? At the VUB, students with any background can opt to bring their ideas to life!
Master of Science in Management
The MSc in Management is a 'full programme' option. It provides a broad overview of multiple management domains. The programme is designed for people without a specific background in business economics who wish to broaden their academic knowledge on the subject. Therefor it has to be combined with a preparatory programme organized in the first weeks of first semester (evening classes) and exists of 21 ECTS-credits.
This master will extend your knowledge of management, economics and business and offer you the skills and knowhow needed for management positions in a broad array of sectors.
The MSc in Management is only taught during the evenings, so the programme is easily accessible for working people.
More information about the programme
MSc ManagementComplete Master Programme
60 ECTS credits + 21 prep programme
Language
English
Good to know
Evening Classes
Postgraduate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering
The Postgraduate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship focuses on students with a master degree in biology, (bio)engineering, industrial sciences and business engineering.
This one-year postgraduate with an inter-university certificate aims to help students gain practical experience in their field or as entrepreneurs, with an internship in a company within the programme of engineering or as an addition to the start of your career in a specific company.
More information
Postgraduate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in EngineeringInter-university certificate
60 ECTS
Innovative internships
Also outside of Belgium
Flexible learning path
Compatible with a job
Elective courses and training
You can integrate business economics and entrepreneurship in your study programme by opting for these elective courses:
1. Basic course: Business Management and Entrepreneurship
Students with a non-economic background will be introduced to the most important aspects of how business organizations work: fundamentals of business, management, finance, marketing, human resource management, product design and development.
3 credits, taught in English, 1st semester.
Course content
Business Management and EntrepreneurshipElective course
3 ECTS Credits
Language
English
Good to know
1st semester
2. Training oriented subjects
Depending on your education, there are a number of business courses integrated into the programme.
(Advanced) starter seminars
The starter seminars is a course programme for any student who wants to engage in entrepreneurship, and turn science into business.
Starter Seminars
During every first semester of the academic year, VUB TechTransfer organizes the Starter Seminars.
Taking up twelve 3-hour sessions, these seminars cover a variety of topics such as developing a business plan, finance, marketing, the complex issues surrounding patenting, etc
Advanced Starter Seminars
In 2014 a series of Advanced Starter Seminars has been introduced that treat certain topics more in-depth. These are especially aimed at students, PhD and researchers of the VUB, but they are open to anyone who is interested.
Under certain conditions, the Advanced Starter Seminars can be considered part of a PhD Doctoral Training Programme of the VUB.
Chair Social Entrepeneurship
The VUB Chair Social Entrepneurship brings together both academia and business in search for sustainable business models of social entrepreneurship.
Your right to a flexible programme
To combine academic studies with a business student entrepeneurs can request study flexibility.
Reflex statute as a student entrepreneur
Reflex stands for reasonable flexibility, and gives you the right to request flexible study and exam measures. This should help to combine business and studies in a more comfortable way: a more flexible time management and a chance at a fair grade.