Master Business Intelligence (M.Sc.)

Industry analysts predict that investments in the business intelligence market will almost double. CIOs, i.e., IT managers, estimate that there is a very high demand for IT specialists in the area of business intelligence and reporting services. With your Master’s degree in BI, you will be able to take up positions in lower and middle management in this rapidly growing environment. For example, as: 

You can complete your Master's degree in Business Intelligence at IU as a distance learning programme 100% online. For maximum freedom and self-determined learning, you will not only have an innovative mix of interactive teaching formats at your disposal. In addition, IU’s distance learning programme offers you numerous other advantages.  

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With a Master’s degree, you’ll be able to take your career to the next level and bring the specialist knowledge you have gained to a new level. This way, you won’t only be able to pursue a certain professional direction, but also specialise in a selected subject area. First and foremost, this will give you an attractive competitive advantage over other applicants who “only” have a Bachelor’s degree. In addition, your Master’s degree will give you the skills you need to take on important management functions with significantly more responsibility later on. This will also be reflected in your salary sooner or later. Your Master’s degree offers you optimal opportunities for advancement and career development. 

The Master’s degree in Business Intelligence at IU International University of Applied Sciences provides you with valuable basic and specialised knowledge along the entire BI process chain – from data management and the business intelligence process to corporate strategy. While you acquire the necessary basic knowledge of business management in basic courses, you will be made fit in ETL technologies, data warehousing and all other disciplines in the area of BI. You’ll determine the focus of your Master’s degree in Business Intelligence yourself, whereby you will be able to choose between different areas such as data preparation and storage, conventional and NoSQL data warehousing or data visualisation and effective reporting.   

Data is a strategic asset in the age of digitalisation. Those who can manage it intelligently have a decisive competitive advantage. Accordingly, industry analysts predict that investments in the business intelligence market will almost double. This means that the need for IT specialists will continue to increase. As a graduate with a Master's degree in BI, you will take on leading positions in lower and middle management in this rapidly growing environment. For example, you’ll be able to work as a Business Intelligence Analyst preparing, cleansing and modelling data, as a Business Intelligence Solution Architect analysing business processes or as a Data Consultant developing data strategies.