Your future
The Entrepreneurship & Business Development programme works with several organisations that can help you with your career, your thesis and the student company.
- The Centre for Entrepreneurship organises business plan competitions and round-table discussions with entrepreneurs, and invites well-known entrepreneurs to speak.
- The UM SME Portal gathers issues from small businesses used as case studies and company projects within the programme.
- Department’s researchers are connected to the European Council of Small Businesses and with EIM, a research institute focusing on small businesses.
- The UM Holding and UM faculties offer advice on your thesis or student company, including buying shares and advice on patenting issues.
Career prospects
As a graduate, you can look for work in:
- business start-ups
- taking over family businesses
- management functions in SMEs
- public research institutes
- venture capital firms and banks
- consultancy firms
- PhD research into entrepreneurship and related topics
You could also decide to go for an MBA in Maastricht:
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% |