Industrial Management, M.Sc.
The master's program "Industrial Management" prepares students to take on managerial responsibility in middle management in industry, in service sectors or in public administration. The Master's degree program offers students a flexible training concept that offers a wide range of opportunities to meet the demands of the globalization of the world of work and the international integration of companies through individually selectable training in selected areas of business administration, engineering and natural sciences as well as media sciences will.
Programme facts
| Degree | Master of Science (M.Sc.) |
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| Duration | 4 semesters, 120 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German, English |
| Required German | C1 |
| Study mode | Full-Time, Part-Time |
| Start | Winter semester |
| Application | Directly to the university, winter semester until 15.07 |
| Tuition fee | Set by the university for international students — the amount is on the programme's official page |
| Semester contribution | €95 per semester |
What the tuition fee consists of
Will I get in
How the selection works and how strong the competition is — we go through it against your certificate when we select programmes for you.
Programme selection →About the programme
The "Industrial Management" study program, which has been offered since 2001 and developed further in 2004, 2009 and 2015, has been successfully accredited since 2004. It is interdisciplinary and links the teaching and research skills and resources available at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences across all departments. Taking this character into account, it is coordinated and professionally supervised as a model project by the central scientific institution "Institute for Knowledge Transfer and Digital Transformation (IWD)".
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With its modular content and structural concept, the study program is aimed at graduates of engineering, media or economics courses who want to broaden their specialist knowledge in a basic complex (optionally management or natural and technical sciences) and scientifically deepen them in a specialist discipline close to the study focus of the first degree. The study program has a research-oriented profile.
The aim of the course is to use theory-oriented teaching with a strong practical focus to train an engineering and business-oriented expert who is sufficiently qualified to apply engineering and management techniques in small and medium-sized as well as industrial companies, to be creatively effective in a team and to work internationally thanks to qualified foreign language skills be.
What you study
The full-time variant comprises a total of four study semesters (three theory-oriented semesters, including a research and development project and the master's semester, in which the master's thesis is to be prepared and defended). In part-time studies, the theoretical training is extended to four semesters. The research and development project is to be worked on in the 5th semester. The 6th semester is used to prepare the master's thesis. To deepen your knowledge, the course is divided into 11 optional specialization profiles from the second semester onwards. These reflect the research and teaching spectrum of the university and describe the characteristics of the master's program in Industrial Management, which is designed as an interdisciplinary and university-wide offer. The following specialization profiles are available:
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
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Industry and the commercial and service companies that work with it are the driving economic power of a country. They define the requirements for the Industrial manager job profile. Traditional training paths no longer meet the complex requirements of the modern working world. The economy is looking for personalities who can help shape the market for industry and services of tomorrow. An interdisciplinary master's degree such as "Industrial Management" can train these personalities and thus meet the needs of the market.
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Highly qualified employees with interdisciplinary skills have excellent career prospects in business - throughout Germany and around the world! High-growth sectors such as the automotive, logistics and media sectors and in particular the "hidden champions" in mechanical and plant engineering as well as electrical engineering and information technology are looking for well-qualified junior managers for demanding national and international tasks.
Against this background of constantly intensifying international competition, the relocation of production sites to growth regions all over the world, through acquisitions and mergers, the demands on managers are increasing enormously. You need to know more than just business basics. In-depth knowledge of management combined with skills in the specialist profile of the respective industry are required. The target group for the requirement profile described is recruited from three main directions:
- Engineers and engineering-related professions with a generally narrowly limited competence profile in business administration and management,
- Economists and business-related graduation profiles with deficits in the technical/technological background of the company processes to be managed,
- Media and social scientists with high competence in the communicative and social area but comparatively little experience in application to company-related implementation scenarios.
The "Industrial Manager" of the special Mittweida master's program is intended to meet the profile of the interdisciplinary player in middle management levels expected by the economy through a broadly diversified, highly modularized and individually designable qualification program, which is characterized by the structural elements:
- Broadening of knowledge in a basic complex (choice of one of two profile lines: management or natural and technical sciences)
- Advanced knowledge in one of 11 research-related disciplines
- Individual specialization through interdisciplinarity
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Graduates of the Industrial Management course can take on specialist and management tasks in business and administration. In large companies, a specialist career is possible in individual functional areas, in small and medium-sized companies across disciplines. Due to the interdisciplinarity of the training program, the following fields of activity open up to graduates on the national and global job market:
- Management
- Controlling
- Marketing
- Logistics
- Project/ Quality Management
- Project/ product development
- Project planning, construction
- Support and Services
Cost of study
| Semester contribution | €95 |
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Requirements and application
| Previous education | The target group for the Master of Science in Industrial Management training are graduates in engineering, media management and economics courses. |
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| Language | German C1 — confirmed by a certificate when you apply |
| Application | Directly to the university, winter semester until 15.07 |
The procedure and the set of documents depend on your certificate. We check the university's requirements against your documents and give you a list: what to submit, how to certify and translate it, where and when to apply.
Check the requirementsHow to get into this programme
- 1Check your certificate and its recognitionDirect admission, a year at a university at home, or Studienkolleg first — this decides the whole plan.
- 2German up to C1 and a certificateDSH or TestDaF has to be passed before you apply.
- 3Documents and translationsCertified translations of the certificate and transcript, an APS if required. 3–4 weeks.
- 4Application directly to the university until 15.07Send the documents well before the deadline — an incomplete application cannot be completed after it.
- 5Admission, visa, movingPlan 2–3 months for the visa and the blocked account in parallel.
How to apply
You can submit the application yourself or with our help — the university decides on admission in both cases.
Applications go through the university's portal or uni-assist. Typical mistakes:
- ×incorrectly made certified copies and translations
- ×a wrong set of documents
- ×the application submitted the wrong way
- ×errors or gaps in the application form
- ×the application submitted at the wrong time — too early or too late
An incomplete or incorrectly prepared application is excluded from the selection — it can no longer be corrected after the deadline.
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If your level is not enough yet
The two most common stoppers are a language level below the requirement and a certificate without direct admission. Both can be solved, but they take months — plan them now, not after a rejection.
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The deadline is 15.07.2027 (274 days left). Language, translations and the document check take months, not weeks. In 30 minutes we will build a plan backwards from the deadline and tell you honestly whether you can make it.