Language
  • English
Format
  • Full time
Start date
  • February
  • September
Location
  • Maastricht
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International Business - Managerial Decision-Making and Control

This specialisation focuses on managerial decision-making and control, preparing students for strategic roles in business decisions, performance management, and situation analysis. It combines management, accounting, and business decision-making skills.

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Why this programme

Many CEOs and CFOs in large companies have a background in Controlling. Why? Because Controlling is about making the big decisions. Being a Controller means having an overview of business situations, understanding the accounts on the one hand and the managerial side on the other. Controllers are often compared to the navigators on a ship; they know where the ship is and where it needs to go. They play a major role in profitability, analysis, performance evaluation and the viability of mergers and acquisitions.

Group of students in front of Maastricht University School of Business and Economics building at Tapijn

Student profile

People skills are vital in Controlling, along with an innate curiosity about the relationship between people and management in a business. You should work well in a team and be a critical thinker. Mathematics and quantitative skills are a definite plus, though high achievement in any bachelor’s degree is more important. Controllers are problem-solvers, so experience working in a team on problem-oriented situations is indispensible.

Dual Degree programme

The Dual Degree programme at the School of Business and Economics allows you to study at two universities and earn two master's degrees! You can participate at the beginning of the academic year in September, studying part of your master's degree at an institution abroad and part at the SBE. Once you have met all the requirements of both master's programmes, you will receive a degree from each university. Almost all Dual Degree programs can be completed with little or no study delay and with minimal additional costs. The Dual Degree programme has carefully selected partner universities that are highly respected, research-oriented and preferably accredited by both EQUIS and AACSB. 

Dual Degree students at SBE

Global Innovation Challenge 

The Global Innovation Challenge (GIC) offers MSc. International Business students a new opportunity to study in an international environment and gain practical experience with companies. The School of Business and Economics offers this excellence program as a project-based course in which international master's students work as external consultants on a business challenge of a particular company or business unit that requires innovation and transformational approaches. This Global Innovation Challenge is part of the IBS network and is aimed at enhancing students' innovation and creativity skills, knowledge in transformation, change management and creating business solutions with global impact. nsformation, change management and creating business solutions with global impact.

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