Elective courses in the Master in Business Engineering - Operations Management
In the master in Business Engineering: Data Analytics you can choose elective courses for a total of 12 credits, divided over the first and the second year of the master. Most students choose to take 6 credits in the first year and another 6 credits in the second year of the programme but this is not an obligation. You can choose how you spread the elective courses, the only condition is that you took at least 12 credits in elective courses at the end of the programme.
All details about the course content, the responsible professor, medium of instruction, .... can be found in the Study Guide.
Below you can find an overview of all possibilities:
- Students can choose 12 credits from 1 or more modules listed below.
- Some courses mentioned in the list below are organised in a modular structure (these are the general courses from the master in Business Economics). These courses have been marked with the letter 'M' in the list below. Other deadlines apply for these courses
- modular courses organised in the first block of the first semester: it is not possible to enrol or make changes after September 30th 2025
- modular courses organised in the first block of the second semester: it is not possible to enrol or make changes after February 15th 2026
| Module: Elective Advanced Courses | ||
| course | credits | semester |
| Analytical Customer Relationship Management | 6 | 1 |
| Machine Learning | 6 | 1 |
| Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics | 6 | 2 |
| Big Data | 6 | 1 |
| Investment Analysis | 6 | 1 |
| Business Valuation | 4 | 2 |
| Management Accounting and Control | 4 | 2 |
| Financial Risk Management | 6 | 1 |
| Econometrics: Time Series Analysis | 6 | 1 |
| Networks in Socio-economic Systems | 6 | 2 |
| Deep Learning | 6 | 2 |
| Internship* | 6 | Y |
| Sustainable Systems Engineering | 5 | 1 |
| Rational Use of Materials | 5 | 1 |
| Heuristics and Search Methods | 3 | 2 |
| Methods Engineering and work Measurement | 6 | 2 |
| Network Modelling and Design | 4 | 2 |
| Quality Engineering and Industrial Statistics | 6 | 2 |
| Queueing Theory | 6 | 1 |
| NoSQL Databases | 3 | 2 |
| Data Quality | 3 | 1 |
* Enrolment for the internship is bound to deadlines, which depends on the period in which students wish to take the internship. In addition: it is only allowed to enrol for the internship after the internship coordinator has approved the internship agreement. More information about the internship
| Module: Elective General Courses |
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| course | credits | semester |
| Economics of Banking | 6 | 1 |
| Economics of Financial Markets | 6 | 1 |
| Advanced Econometrics: Non-linear Methods | 6 | 2 |
| Advanced Microeconomics: Game Theory and Asymmetric Information | 6 | 1 |
| Microeconomics: Decision Theory | 6 | 1 |
| Monetary Economics | 5 | 1 |
| Ecological Economics | 6 | 2 |
| Audit (M) | 6 | 1 |
| Taxation | 5 | 2 |
| Advanced Financial Statement Analysis (M) | 6 | 1 |
| Market Research Methods (M) | 6 | 1 |
| Corporate Social Responsibility | 3 | 2 |
| Law and Economics | 3 | 2 |
| Environmental Economics | 4 | 1 |
| Ethics, Engineering and Society | 3 | 2 |
| Health Economics | 5 | 1 |
| Coaching and Diversity | 3 | Y |
| Movement and Sports: Now and Later | 3 | 2 |
| Labour and Employment | 6 | 1 |
| Leadership for Student Directors** | 3 | 1 |
| Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Law*** | 4 | Y |
** Students cannot enrol for the elective course 'leadership for student directors' by themselves, they need to ask for approval of the responsible professor Brent Neyt before October 1st. More information about this course and how you can apply for admission, can be found in the course specifications. After approval of the professor, the course will be added to the curriculum by the international office.
*** The elective course 'multidisciplinary analysis of the law' is not part of the standard elective course list. More information about this course can be found in the course specifications. Students who want to enrol for this course can send an email to international.eb@ugent.be
| Module: Elective Courses Academic Teacher Education |
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| course | credits | semester |
| Powerful Learning Environments | 6 | 1 |
| The Student: development and motivation | 6 | 1 |
| The Teacher within Class, School and Society | 6 | 2 |