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ICT in Business

The curriculum depends on the student’s background. Students with a Leiden University bachelor in Computer Science, specialization “Informatica & Economie” follow an alternative curriculum (see OeR). Post Experience students follow the PE-curriculum (tab 3). All the other students follow the main curriculum (see below).

First year

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2
Accounting (ICTiB) 3
Leading & Managing People 5
Managing the Digital Business 3
Strategy: Process, Content, Context 6
Behavioural and Analytical Decision Making 6
Change Management 3
Finance (ICTiB) 3
Global Business Game - CIO Simulation 1
ICT Architectures 6
ICT Enabled Process Innovation 3
Marketing and Corporate Communications 3
Process Modelling 3
Research Methods 6
Software Engineering (ICT in Business) 3
System Development & Project Management 6

Second year

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2
Business Intelligence 3
Managing Innovation 3
Capstone Cases 3
Electives 9 in total
MSc Research Project 38
Research Colloquia 4

Post Experience

Persons who have acquired a Bachelor ICT degree and at least three years of working experience, can join the Master of Science programme ICT in Business. This programme is developed especially for those students who can not participate in daytime courses; most of the courses will take place in the evenings. The programme strongly appeals to self-efficacy.

This programme offers various specialisation courses. Whether a specialisation course will take place or not, depends upon the number of participants.

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2
ICT Architectures (PE) 6
Strategy: Process, Content, Context (PE) 6
Behavioural Decision Making (PE) 9 in total
Managing People (PE) 9 in total
Organising (PE) 9 in total
Finance and Accounting (PE) 6
Methodology and Research Approach (PE) 6
Research Participation & Scientific Reporting (PE) 19
MSc Research Project (PE) 38

Specialisation courses (PE)

ICT in the Public Sector 3
System Development & Project Management (PE) 6
Business Intelligence & Business Analytics (PE) 6
ICT Enabled Process Innovation & Business Process Management (PE) 6
Managing Business, Information & Technology as CIO (PE) 6
ICT and Law (PE) 6
Enterprise Governance & Enterprise Engineering (PE) 6
Scenario Thinking (PE) 12 total
Future Decision Making (PE) 12 total
Change Management (PE) 3
Datamining & Big Data Analysis (PE) 6