Your future
The department has relationships with well-known companies, consultancy firms and public organisations. Experts from the field give guest lectures to provide you with an insider´s view into management, consulting and other career options. Department members are often engaged in consulting and coaching roles themselves, and can provide you with further insights into the possibilities awaiting graduates with a degree in Organisation: Management, Change and Consultancy. Our graduates have found positions in various well-known firms in the Netherlands, Europe and the world.
Career prospects
Graduates with strong skills in people management are in high demand across a wide range of industries and organisations. With an International Business degree in Organisation, you are well-positioned to help organisations unleash their full human resources potential, be it in the role of a leader, manager or management consultant. Our graduates have made careers for themselves in large multinationals and consulting firms, in general management and human resource management positions.
Take a look at some of the jobs our graduates have landed:
- Recruitment coordinator at Apple
- Senior project manager for learning & development at Zurich Insurance Group
- HR manager at DSM
- Project manager at Shell
- Consultant at Ernst & Young, Capgemini, PWC, Accenture
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.
Employment rate
| After 1,5 years | After 5 years | After 10 years |
| 97,5% | 98,2% | 100,0% |
Median gross monthly income
| After 1,5 years | After 5 years | After 10 years |
| € 3.300,00 | € 5.000,00 | € 6.300,00 |
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
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% |