Business Informatics MSc

The name of study programme: Business Informatics
Level of degree: Masters
Qualification written in the degree: Business Informatics
The language of study programme: English
The area of education: information technology
Duration of study programme: 4 semesters
The number of credit points necessary for the MSc degree: 120 credits

The aim of study programme:
The goal of the education programme is to provide students with high level knowledge built on a strong foundation of business, management and technical sciences related to the fields of Computer Science and Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in order to enable them to understand, design, implement, integrate and manage complex systems, and furthermore, to coordinate and perform research and development tasks for business IT purposes.
The programme will equip students with knowledge of IT project management, Enterprise Resource Planning, knowledge base technologies, data analysis, algorithms, process management, simulations for business decision making, managerial accounting, strategic management and corporate finance in advanced level, and also to combine a scientific perspective with the practical approaches. With the solid academic basis provided, students will be able to access further studies on our English language doctoral programmes.

The content of the study programme

Curriculum and links to the description of course programmes: neptun.sze.hu

Field of training	Credits	Percentage
Business Informatics compulsory courses	25	21%
Economy and Natural Sciences compulsory courses	29	24%
Differentiated professional elective courses	30	25%
Freely elected courses	6	5%
Thesis work	30	25%
Total	120	100%

Professional Practice/Internship:
The mandatory internship period of min. 6 weeks has to be absolved outside of university at a suitable professional location.

The supervisory system of knowledge contains the following items:
Acquisition of the prescribed knowledge requirement, internship absolved, diploma thesis completed and final examination absolved.

Requirements of the thesis:
The thesis has to solve a business IT related task of a specialization or work out a research topic during two semesters based on the knowledge of the student, complimented by studying the literature and supervised by consultants. The candidate proves by the thesis work his or her proficiency in applying the knowledge learned, ability to perform analysis and design tasks, is experienced in the literature and can use it to create value.

Conditions for taking the final exam:
Meeting the requirements of the curriculum, including obtaining at least 120 credit points out of which the thesis represents 30 credit points, fulfilling the conditions of the practical training/internship as part of the curriculum, diploma thesis evaluated and approved by the reviewer.

Parts of the final exam:
The candidate presents and defends his/her thesis work. The members of the committee ask questions referring the topic of the thesis during the complex exam, in order to check the skills of the candidate.

The results of the final exam:
The committee grades the result of the final exam with a single mark by averaging the grades given to the thesis defense and the complex exam. If this grade is “fail”, the committee decides whether partly or fully accepts the thesis work.

The assessment of the degree:
Weighted grade point average considering the whole study time, arithmetic average of the grades given to the complex exam and thesis defense.