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ICT in Business and the Public Sector

Master

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). All the other students follow the main curriculum (see below).

If you are a student with a Leiden University bachelor in Computer Science, specialization “Informatica & Economie”, you can replace marked courses (see OER) with courses from the Leiden University master Computer Science. For selected courses the schedules are aligned (see schedule on the ICTiB&PS website).

Eerste jaar

The Master ICT in Business and the Public Sector offers two specialisations: ICT in Business or ICT in the Public Sector. Students have to choose one of the specialisations at the end of the first semester: a set of 18 ECTS ICTiB courses or a set of 18 ECTS ICTitPS courses.

Not all specialisation-courses of the ICTiB- specialisation are mandatory. See the OER for more details.

Vak EC Semester 1 Semester 2
Global Business Game - CIO Simulation 1
Strategy 5
Technology and Operations Management 4
ICT Enabled Process Innovation 3
Leading and Managing People 5
Software Engineering (ICTiB&PS) 3
System Development and Project Management 6
Decision and Risk Analysis (ICTiB&PS) 3
Process Modelling 3
Accounting (ICTiB&PS) 3
ICT Architectures 6
Research Methods 5

Specialisation ICT in Business
Marketing (ICTiB&PS) 3
Managing Innovation 3
Financial Management 3
Managing the Digital Business 3
Entrepreneurial Opportunities (ICTiB&PS) 3
Marketing Analytics 3

Specialisation ICT in the Public Sector
Role of IT in Public Administration 6
Working for the Government as ICT Expert 6

Tweede jaar

The Master ICT in Business and the Public Sector offers two specialisations: ICT in Business or ICT in the Public Sector. Complete curriculum can be found in the OER.

In the second year, students have to choose electives (9ec in total). Electives (master level!) can be taken everywhere as long as the Examination Board gives permission beforehand.

Vak EC Semester 1 Semester 2
Business Intelligence 4
Applied Research Methodology 4
MSc Research Project 38

Specialisation ICT in Business
Capstone Cases 3
Entrepreneurial Process 3
Entrepreneurial Planning 6

Specialisation ICT in the Public Sector
Digital Government-Citizen Interaction 3
Data-driven Policy Making 3

Electives
Management Science: Business Analytics 3
Consultancy Skills 3
Lean Six Sigma 3
Cyber Security 3

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 and the Public Sector. 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.

Vak EC Semester 1 Semester 2
Leading and Managing People 5
Behavioural and Analytical Decision Making 6
ICT Architectures (PE) 6
Strategy: Process, Content, Context (PE) 6
Methodology and Research Approach (PE) 6
Research Participation & Scientific Reporting (PE) 19
MSc Research Project (PE) 38

Specialisation courses (PE)
System Development & Project Management (PE) 6
Digital Government-Citizen Interaction 3
Working for the Government as ICT Expert 6
Consultancy Skills 3

Old Curriculum

Students that started their ICTiB&PS studies in September 2017 or February 2018 have to follow some courses from the former curriculum (OER 2017-2018).

These courses are:

  • Entrepreneurship (4353ENTPRH)

  • Behavioural and Analytical Decision Making (4353BAADM)

  • Business Intelligence (4353BUSIN), 3 ects

  • Strategy (4353SPCC)

Descriptions of these courses can be found in the archive of the e-prospectus (year 2017-2018).