Digital Transformation and Global Entrepreneurship (MSc) Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences

Benefits for students:

• Develop new ways of thinking in order to take advantage of opportunities in an organisation or company at a global level.
• Identify potential innovations that drive digital transformation at an international level.
• Be able to not only manage digital transformation but also to shape it.
• Develop your own scalable ideas all the way to market maturity by working on a team project.
• Use our international network to enable global action.
• Exchange ideas with like-minded people, entrepreneurs and founders.
• Receive comprehensive, in-depth training thanks to our start-up, digital and research labs.
• Develop and apply research methods that make our graduates sought-after young scientists in the field of digital transformation and global entrepreneurship.

First semester

• Entrepreneurial Trend and Technology Scouting
• Entrepreneurial Ideation and Prototyping
• Digital Transformation and Entrepreneurship
• Digital Business Models and Approaches
• Applied Data Digitalisation
• Systematic Literature Review

Second semester

• International Start-up Tour (Excursion)
• International Strategic Management
• Entrepreneurial Funding and Finance
• Disruptive Technologies
• Digital Implementation
• Quantitative Research Methods

Third semester

• Strategic Brand Management
• Elective
• Master's Thesis and Seminar

• University degree with a minimum of 210 ECTS credits (those with fewer ECTS, please see University degree does not reach 210 ECTS)
• Applicants holding a Bachelor’s degree comprising 180 ECTS credits must complete the four-semester programme (120 ECTS). In this programme, the first semester comprises six modules: German for Academic Studies, Integrated Skills: Academic English, Intercultural Skills, Research Skills, and two subject-specific modules.
• Applicants holding a Bachelor’s degree comprising 180 ECTS from a higher education institution within the Lisbon Convention may, alternatively, have at least six months’ relevant professional experience following the award of their Bachelor’s degree recognised for the purposes of the programme.
• Applicants with a Bachelor’s degree from an institution outside the Lisbon Convention must provide a Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test.
• average grade of 2.5 or better
• 10 ECTS in the fields of digitalisation and 10 ECTS in the fields of business administration (or entrepreneurship)
• 5 ECTS in academic research (optionally, a research proposal can be submitted)
• for international applicants: German A2
• The programme has unrestricted admission.

The administration fees for enrolment are around 100 EUR per semester.

You will be informed of the exact amount with your letter of acceptance.

Taking all aspects of daily life into account, students have to expect expenses of approximately 1,000 EUR per month.

There are some job opportunities within the university (e.g. as a tutor for undergraduates). Moreover, student trainee positions ("Werkstudent") offer you very good opportunities to gain professional experience. Numerous job offers in the region (Ulm, Stuttgart, and Munich) are available in English.

Graduation scholarship "STIBET" (scholarship for Bachelor's and Master's students in need, only in the last semester while writing the Master's thesis), DAAD Prize (award for one outstanding international student per year)

The Hochschule Neu- Ulm (HNU) is an international business school for innovation, sustainable entrepreneurship and digital transformation.

We educate

• internationally experienced,
• solution-oriented thinking,
• responsibly acting

shapers of the future.

Intensive cooperation with companies in a dynamic economic region and the competence of the professors stand for high quality in applied research, practice-oriented teaching and innovative transfer.

Neu-Ulm is a young, modern city with more than 60,000 inhabitants. Lively urban hustle and bustle and rural idyll coexist here.