Your future
Your future
Specialisation Economics
To study or to work? By the time you’ve finished this bachelor’s programme, you’ll have spent three years sharpening your academic skills and mastering the theoretical content. At the same time, you’ll have gotten a taste of working life, too, given the emphasis placed on practical experience and making contacts within the IES Network. Whether it’s further study or the labour market, you’ll have the right foundation and tools to pursue your highest goals.
Master's programmes
Your specialisation in Economics provides a strong foundation for the following master’s programmes:
Economics
Global Supply Chain Management and Change
Learning and Development in Organisations
Financial Economics
International Business
Feel like branching out? Other Maastricht programmes will welcome you as well, provided you fulfil any additional admission requirements. Or what about something even more adventurous? The good news is that SBE is highly regarded across Europe and around the world, and your bachelor’s specialisation will open doors to programmes you’ve not yet imagined.
Career prospects
Sound theoretical and practical knowledge? Check. Critical thinking and communication skills? Check. International experience? Check. With this degree, you tick the boxes on just about every employer’s checklist.
Our graduates go on to work in:
- multinational organisations, such as the EU and the OECD
- major financial institutions, like national banks, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank
- university research departments
- the private sector, such as telecommunications companies
- strategic, advisory or consultancy roles, e.g. in mergers and acquisitions
Specialisation Economics and Management of Information
With your specialisation in Economics and Business Economics, you might want to further develop your expertise in this field. Or you might prefer to spread your wings to another area, to become a well-rounded professional. Either way, there are plenty of master’s programmes at your fingertips, both in the Netherlands and abroad.
Master’s programmes
Among these are some of Maastricht University’s own master’s programmes:
Global Supply Chain Management and Change
Learning and Development in Organisations
Financial Economics
International Business
Economics
Career prospects
These days, you simply can’t go wrong with IT. And combined with your general knowledge in economics and business, you’ll have employers knocking down your door. Along with the big players like Microsoft and Google, just about every decent-sized company needs people who can translate new technologies into business returns.
Our graduates work in:
- IT planning and policymaking
- IT consultancy
- the EU and other government institutions
- research and academia
- IT project management, working their way up to key positions in large multinationals, such as Cap Gemini, Accenture, SAP, Business Objects, Shell and Vodafone
Specialisation Emerging Markets
Master’s programmes
Within the Emerging Markets specialisation, you’ll have the freedom to choose many of your courses and design your own path. You can ensure that you’ll be well prepared for many of the master’s programmes in business and economics at Maastricht University, including:
Economics
Global Supply Chain Management and Change
Learning and Development in Organisations
Financial Economics
International Business
You’ll also be well positioned to apply to master’s programmes at other universities that focus on the business or economics of emerging markets, as well as related areas such as development studies, global studies and international relations.
Career prospects
The challenging structure of this specialisation is designed to make you an attractive candidate for a broad range of employers in business or economics such as:
international (multinational) companies
international development organisations
global financial institutions
trade promotion offices and ministries of national governments
business and economics consultancies
market research companies
start-ups
Specialisation International Business Economics
Employers are understandably eager to get graduates of this programme on board:
You’re familiar with how organisations work.
You’ve got the tools to solve their problems and improve their performance.
You understand the impact of government policies and global events.
And you know how to sell your innovative solutions to the right players.
Your next step depends entirely on your own ambitions.
Master's programmes
If you’re keen to keep on studying, you’re safe in the knowledge that your bachelor’s degree prepares you well for six Maastricht master’s:
Global Supply Chain Management and Change
Learning and Development in Organisations
Financial Economics
International Business
Economics
Of course, Maastricht University also has a range of other reputable programmes, and for some of these you may need to fulfil additional requirements. And beyond our doorstep, there’s a whole world of programmes waiting for you.
Career prospects
Academic theory, practical skills, and international experience: all this sets you apart from other graduates. This programme is well known in the business world of the Euregion and beyond, opening doors to graduates for management and market research positions in:
large multinationals, such as Shell and Daimler
accounting firms, like Ernst & Young and KPMG
pension funds and financial institutions, like Fortis and Deutsche Bank
consulting firms, such as Cap Gemini and Accenture
government and non-profit organisations, like the European Central Bank and United Nations