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This outline presents a nominal study plan for students starting their program in academic year 2025-2026.
It is based on the Master Education and Examination Regulations (EER). In case of any discrepancies, the EER is leading!
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Master Business Intelligence and Smart Services 2025-2026

Year 1 Master Business Intelligence and Smart Services 2025-2026
Year S1 P1 EBC4219 Service Design EBC4220 Business Analytics EBS4046 Smart Service Skills EBS4047 Writing a Master's Thesis Proposal: BISS
P2 EBC4254 Business Intelligence and Data Governance EBC4255 Machine Learning for Smart Services
P3    
S2 P4 EBC4256 Smart Service Management and/or EBC4223 Analysing Unstructured Data 1   EBP4007 Smart Service Project EMTH0009 Master's Thesis or ETIP0001 Thesis-Internship Programme 2
P5 EBC4222 Descriptive and Predictive Analytics and/or EBC4225 Data Visualisation 1  
P6    

1 You have to choose two out of the four courses offered in period 4 and 5. There are three viable combinations:

2 Master's Thesis will be registered by the Education and Exams Office once you have completed the prerequisite skill EBS4047.
The Thesis-Internship Programme allows for an alternative way to write your thesis at a company.

For the full text, see Chapter XIV SBE Master’s study programmes from the Master Education and Examination Regulations for academic year 2025-2026.

The Master’s exam for the study programme Master of Science in Business Intelligence and Smart Services is composed of two semesters, composed of four (4) compulsory courses of 5.0 ECTS credits per course, two (2) elective courses of 5.0 ECTS credits per course, one (1) compulsory Smart Service Project of 6.5 ECTS credits, one (1) compulsory skills training of 6.5 ECTS credits, one (1) compulsory skills training of 3.5 ECTS credits and the Master’s thesis of 13.5 ECTS credits. In order to meet the exam requirement within the available space for elective courses as stated in paragraph 2 of this Article, students need to choose two (2) elective courses from the courses offered in education period 4 and education period 5. Students can choose to follow both the education period 4 courses, both the education period 5 courses, or one course of each education period.