Biomedical Sciences: Management

Management Specialisation

The Management specialisation is offered by Leiden University Medical Center in collaboration with the Faculty of Science. The programme, called Business studies, enables students to develop knowledge and insight of, and opinions on a career outside scientific research. It broadens the student’s perspective predominantly in the field of management (e.g. marketing, finance, project management). Yet, graduates will also be equipped to pursuit a career within scientific biomedical research. The entire programme is taught in English.

The programme encompasses compulsory components of the Research master’s programme (at least 60 EC) combined with courses from the Business programme at the Faculty of Science. A management internship will be executed at an organization/company with a link to the biomedical field. Approval of this internship should be given beforehand by the examination board of the master Biomedical Sciences. The programme can be extended within the free elective scope of the curriculum.

Programme components are:

• Management course programme (15 EC)
  -Strategy
  -Marketing (SBB)
  -Financial management
  -Technology and operations management

• Project Proposal: Management(3 EC)

• JRP2 Management (26-42 EC)

Students with prior education in management, business and entrepreneurship (e.g. students who have completed the Science Based Business (SBB) Fundamentals course – Bachelor edition) are exempted from following the courses Strategy, Marketing (SBB) and Financial management in the master’s Management specialisation. These courses need to be substituted by at least an equal number of ECTS credits of other SBB master modules, offered by the Faculty of Science, or elsewhere. Technology and Operations Management still has to be followed.

For detailed description of the courses modules/components of Business studies, please refer to the website of Business studies directly.

Coordinator M-, C-, E- and H-specialisations Ms. Dr.Ir. J. van der Zee