Language
  • English
Format
  • Full time
Start date
  • February
  • September
Location
  • Maastricht
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Master

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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Your future

Representatives from companies like Henkel AG, Bayer AG, DSM, Medtronic and a number of smaller yet equally fascinating firms are actively involved in the Managerial Decision-Making and Control master’s programme. You can expect them to help you with case studies, company projects, and so on. Some students even go on to do internships because of connections they’ve made with people working in the field.

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Certification and further education

After graduation, you can enter the work force directly, but you will probably also want to be certified as a Chartered Controller, either in the Netherlands or internationally, at the School of Business and Economics or at another prestigious institution abroad. At the post-graduate stage, links with the corporate world are stronger still. The post-graduate programmes listed below are a vital part of company management and executive development.

Chartered Controller certification at the UM School of Business and Economics:


Executive master’s programme at the UM School of Business and Economics:

  • Leergang Business Control

Career prospects

As a graduate, you can look for work in: 

  • controlling
  • finance management, eventually as a finance director (CFO)
  • consulting
  • in-house consulting departments
  • general management in major firms – decisions makers such as CEOs and CFOs often have a background in controlling

Graduates have found positions such as

  • Business Controller at Unilever
  • Consultant at Horvàth & Partner
  • Head of Strategic Controlling at Generali Versicherung

In this section, we present the average employability data for all programmes of the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics (Alumni survey from 2024). In our latest survey, 78,0% of our graduates indicated they would choose the same study programme again! For detailed information per programme, please see the bottom of this page.

 

Working location of our alumni 1,5 years after graduation
Country%
the Netherlands 45,2% 
Germany 28,5% 
Belgium 10,0% 
Other EU country 8,8% 
Outside of the EU 7,5% 
Average employability data 5 years after graduation per programme including average for Maastricht University and the School of Business and Economics

This table presents the average employability data 5 years after graduation per programme as well as the average for Maastricht University and the School of Business and Economics.  

Please note that some programmes did not have enough responses to allow a satisfactory result and are therefore not included in this list.  

MSc programme 

% employed 

Median gross monthly income 

Would choose same programme again 

Econometrics and Operations Research 

100% 

€ 3.665,00 

 

81% 

Economics 

100% 

€ 3.700,00 

75% 

Financial Economics 

100% 

€ 5.500,00 

62% 

International Business (all specialisations) 

98% 

€ 5.000,00 

76% 

Learning and Development in Organisations 

95% 

€ 4.000,00 

90% 

Global Supply Chain Management and Change 

100% 

€ 5.100,00 

90% 

Sustainability Science, Policy and Society 

100% 

€ 4.000,00 

80% 

Public Policy and Human Development 

97% 

€ 4.400,00 

86%