Requirements for Enrollment

With your Master's degree in Industrial Engineering Management, for example, you can work in technology development, industrial process design, or quality management.

You can enroll in the Master's program in Industrial Engineering Management if you have completed a Bachelor's degree in the fields of engineering, natural sciences, information technology, or business administration.

In addition, you can also enroll without a Bachelor's degree. The requirements for the Master's without Bachelor's at Hochschule Fresenius are as follows:

• You have completed a job-specific vocational training.
• Following your vocational training, you have worked in a job relevant to the Master's in Industrial Engineering Management for at least 4 years.
• You write a motivation letter with a maximum of one A4 page.
• You take the aptitude test for Master's programs in distance learning.

Course Content, Modules, and Specializations

The aim of this distance learning programme is to train you to become an expert in successfully guiding companies through digital transformation. During the course of your studies, you will work on content from the fields of technology, business administration, and natural sciences.

The programme includes the following modules:

• Business and Management or Engineering: Engineering (General and technical basics of automation I, General and technical basics of automation II, General and technical basics of automation III, Project planning of automation systems, Project management) or Business and Management (Business Administration/Management/Organization, Personnel Management and Development, Accounting and Controlling, International and Intercultural Management, Project Management)
• Technology and Management: Quality Management, Innovation Process and Technology Development, Product and Process Management
• Digital Transformation: Industrial Internet, Digital Transformation
• Interdisciplinary Skills: Introductory project for self-organized learning
• Research and Scientific Work: Scientific Work, Empirical Research, Research Methods and Tools
• Digital Project Workshop: Collaboration Engineering, Empirical Research Project
• Specialization Areas: Production and Logistics, Product and Innovation, Business and Marketing, Industrial Engineering Management
• Thesis

You can see that during the course of your studies, you can specialize in one of three exciting specialization areas. In the Industrial Engineering Management specialization, for example, you will work on modules such as Product and Innovation, Design Thinking, and a project work.

Studying Concept and Process

We are convinced that exams in the form of written tests are not suitable for reflecting your actual acquired competencies. Therefore, in this degree program, you will find few written exams in test form. We test your learning progress throughout your studies online through tasks such as essays, online presentations, and speeches, or in so-called E-portfolios. For you, this means: No need to travel for exams and less exam stress — and thus a fair chance for excellent performance evaluations that correspond to your actual knowledge and competence level.

Keeping a balance between studies, work, and life presents a great challenge. Therefore, the support in this groundbreaking phase of your life is all the more important: the backing of your family, the understanding in your company, and above all, the personal, consistently service-oriented support from your university. That is why we rely on a unique interdisciplinary coaching team consisting of professors, lecturers, and study coaches. Your personal study coach is your contact person for all matters relating to your studies. Whether by phone, email, or via the messenger in studynet — your study coach advises and actively supports you on your way to a successful degree. Together, we create the necessary balance and thus the prerequisite for you to continuously develop during your studies and achieve something that seemed so far away at the beginning. Whether at home or on the go, on your desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone — your campus is always with you. Our studynet learning platform is at the same time an auditorium, seminar room, campus, and cafeteria. "Social Learning" is the keyword: a holistic learning experience that consistently focuses on dialogue using a variety of different media formats.

For example, with many features that you already know from your familiar social media platforms: Connect with each other and exchange information via the messenger. Stay up to date with the Activity Board, your onlineplus timeline. And find out in your personal Learning Analytics what you have achieved and where you stand. At the kick-off study camp, open learning camps, as well as optional further events on-site, we create opportunities for you to deepen and expand your contacts from the world of online plus. This way, you will experience an active learning community that accompanies you throughout your studies and will also be a valuable network for you beyond that, as an alumnus of Fresenius University. At onlineplus, studying has a method. Structure and pacing characterize the learning organization at onlineplus, providing clear orientation and fundamentally distinguishing it from conventional distance learning programs. You start flexibly at a time you have chosen and are guided through the similarly structured learning units, modules, and semesters based on our study magazines, the studymags, via individually planned milestones.

This way, you learn in manageable stages that provide regular moments of success and new motivation in your studies. The study plan recommended by onlineplus allows you the flexibility of numerous adjustment options, which you can tailor to your personal learning style, preferred study times, and your own pace. This way, you will find the exact study program that suits you. You always have full transparency: At any time, you can see your individual learning progress, i.e., what you have already achieved, where you currently stand, and exactly what lies ahead of you. The innovative and intuitive form of study thus lays the foundation for the feasibility and success of your entire online studies.

Tip: The costs incurred for your studies alongside work can be tax-deductible. You have two options: You can either declare the expenses for your studies as special expenses up to an amount of 4,000 euros in the annual tax return. You can apply this option if the part-time studies are a first degree course that was not initiated by the employer for operational reasons and is not completed as part of an employment relationship.

Or you can deduct the costs as advertising expenses in full from the tax. This is possible if a completed vocational training or a completed first degree course precedes the part-time studies or if the studies are ordered by the company. In this case, not only the tuition fees but also specialized literature, among other things, are considered advertising costs. Please consult your tax office or a tax advisor on all tax-related matters.