The accredited and top-ranked Master's degree programme in Industrial Engineering and Management offers you excellent opportunities to expand your personal strengths and prepare yourself for management tasks. Building on your first professionally qualifying degree, you will acquire both in-depth theoretical and application-orientated specialist knowledge in this degree programme. You will train your practical skills and develop your professional competences. And for all those who are new to us: With a campus right on the Baltic Sea, there's plenty of fun to be had alongside your studies!
| Study programme | Industrial Engineering Master (WIM) |
| Faculty | Faculty of Mechanical Engineering |
| Start | summer and winter semester |
| Admission | admission-free |
| Credit points | 90 ECTS |
| Degree | Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) |
| Lecture language | German |
In March 2020, the Accreditation Council re-accredited the Master's in Industrial Engineering and Management until September 2027.
Further informationcan be found here.
Even if you have not received your final degree certificate by the application deadline, you can still apply for a master’s program with your current transcript of records or proof of ECTS points that you have currently already gained, the preliminary final mark and the expected date of completion.
- An undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering, Engineering, business administration or a degree in a similar field of study with at least 210 ECTS-Points
Applicants with an undergraduate degree of 180 ECTS-Points have the option to conduct a BAföG-funded semester of alignment or can choose to complete the missing ECTS-Points parallel to the master's degree before registration of the master’s thesis - The applicant has to provide prove of 30 ECTS-Points in industrial engineering courses and 30 ECTS-Points in economics courses that he completed in his undergraduates. If the proof is not provided, the Admission Commission decides on additional modul courses that have to be completed.
- A relevant internship that lasted at least 12 weeks or professional experience (internships during undergraduate degree will be credited)
If no internship was completed, different conditions can be placed upon the applicant.
An Admission Commission considers the provided expertise and decides on admission and potential conditions thereof.
Information for foreign applicants: Incoming
The Master's degree programme in Industrial Engineering and Management builds on a first professionally qualifying degree and provides in-depth theoretical and application-oriented specialist knowledge. With the modules of the Master's programme, we enable you to broaden your horizons with regard to the classic topics of industrial engineering. In addition, you will also go into greater depth and penetrate theoretical concepts more comprehensively. As a result, you will develop the ability to independently solve specialised problems in the traditional areas of industrial engineering in industry, commerce and administration as well as in scientific research and qualify for managerial tasks in these areas. The content of the programme is more scientifically oriented and therefore also qualifies you for a doctorate.
In the CHE ranking for industrial engineering, the Master's programme at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering has once again performed successfully. Students feel at home at HOST and in the Hanseatic city of Stralsund.
Our Master's graduates are qualified to apply scientific findings and methods in their profession and to conduct basic and application-oriented research. This includes the possibility of a doctorate. They acquire extensive knowledge and problem-solving expertise in the field of industrial engineering. In addition to working in industry and in the service sector of the economy, the accredited Master's degree opens up access to the higher civil service at public institutions. There are virtually no limits to your professional deployment and development opportunities - at least that's what the very different professional careers of our graduates show us.
Our Master's graduates can be found in leading national and international industrial companies, e.g. automotive engineering, aircraft industry, renewable energies, shipbuilding, supply industry, as well as in consulting companies, e.g. telecommunications, strategy and public administration.
Industrial engineers often start their careers in the following functional areas:
- Procurement
- Production
- Logistics
- Marketing
- Sales
- Controlling
- Organisation
- Investment
- Information and communication technology
Thanks to their interdisciplinary skills, our graduates have very good career prospects.
The Master's degree programme in Industrial Engineering and Management at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Stralsund University of Applied Sciences comprises three clearly structured semesters. The first two semesters consist of three compulsory and two optional compulsory modules, while the third semester is used to complete the Master's thesis and concludes with the Master's colloquium. The modules of the Master's degree programme aim to provide a deeper theoretical penetration but also a broadening of the classical topics of industrial engineering. Of course, you can also apply to study part-time.
In addition to full-time study, part-time study can also be a viable option. This allows the degree programme to be tailored more flexibly to personal needs for family and career. In this form of study, the courses of the degree programme take place together with full-time students. The duration of the programme is extended accordingly.
Our study concept enables a scientifically sound, application- and foundation-orientated education. Building on a professionally qualifying degree, students develop their skills and competences to independently solve complex subject-specific problems in the traditional areas of industrial engineering in industry, commerce and administration as well as in scientific research. Preparation for a managerial career rounds off the professional qualification.
- The faculty and the university invest heavily in their laboratories in order to keep the industrial state of the art high.
- Student team projects such as the Baltic Racing Team or participation in the Shell ECO Marathon receive the full support of the faculty and regularly win prizes.
- Professors have an industrial background and are appointed with this in mind.
- Many graduates already have an employment contract in their pocket when they complete their Master's thesis.
- Collaboration in research and development projects is common practice, whether at the university as a student assistant, as a graduate or in industry.
- Theses can also be written and presented in English in international companies.
- 90 per cent of theses are written in industry and in industry-related research.
In the CHE ranking for industrial engineering, the Master's programme at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering has once again performed successfully. Students feel at home at HOST and in the Hanseatic city of Stralsund.
