Requirements for Enrollment

With a master's degree in Digital Business Management and Engineering, for example, you can work as a project manager, IT manager, or Digital Business Manager.

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

Following your first degree, you have gained at least 1 year of qualified work experience. Qualified means that you have worked or are working in a field related to your studies, such as innovation technology management, R&D, or technical sales.

In addition, you can also enroll without a bachelor's degree. The following are required for the Master without Bachelor at Hochschule Fresenius:

• You have completed a job-specific training.
• Following your vocational training, you have worked in a field relevant to Master Data Science and IT security for at least 4 years.
• You write a motivational letter with a maximum length of one A4 page.
• You take the aptitude test for Master's programs in distance learning.

Study Content, Modules, and Specialisations

This master's programme enables you to drive technological progress and the digitalisation of companies. The distance learning course combines application-oriented knowledge from the fields of digital business management with engineering implementation. For example, you will learn how to systematically identify, plan, and introduce digital business models.

Throughout the master's programme, you will complete the following modules:

• Management: Project Management, Innovation Processes and Technology Development, Change Management and Digital Leadership, International and Intercultural Management
• Digital Transformation: Digital Transformation, Industrial Internet, Digital Logistics, Digital Business Modelling, Data Science Management, Digital Production Master Course Digitalization
• Interdisciplinary Skills: Self-Organized Learning
• Digital Project Workshop: Collaboration Engineering, Empirical Research Project
• Scientific Work and Research: Scientific Work, Research Methods and Tools
• Elective Focus Areas: Business Engineering (Virtual Product Development, Design Thinking, Industrial Engineering Methods, Industrial Engineering Management) or Business Management (Digital B-2-B Marketing, E- and Mobile Commerce, Social Media in Internal and External Communication, Virtualization of Media and Communication Worlds)
• Thesis

You can see that during the course of your studies, you can delve into one of two interesting subjects, such as the Business Management track.

Study Concept and Structure

We are convinced that exams in the form of written tests are not suitable to adequately reflect the competencies you have actually acquired. Hence, in this degree programme, you will find few written exams in test form. We test your learning progress continuously and online through tasks like essays, online presentations and speeches, or in so-called e-portfolios. This means: no travel effort for exams and less exam stress – offering you a fair chance for excellent performance evaluations that correspond to your actual knowledge and skills.

Maintaining a balance between study, work, and life is a major challenge. That is why support in this groundbreaking phase of your life is crucial: the backing of your family, understanding from your company, and most importantly, the personal, consistently service-oriented support from your university. Therefore, we rely on a unique interdisciplinary coaching team composed of professors, lecturers, and study coaches. Your personal study coach is your contact for all matters related to your studies. Whether by phone, email, or through the messenger on studynet – your study coach advises and actively supports you on your way to a successful graduation. Together, we create the necessary balance, enabling you to continuously grow in your studies, achieving something that seemed far off at the beginning. Whether at home or on the go, on desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone – your campus is always with you. Our learning platform studynet is also an auditorium, seminar room, campus, and cafeteria. "Social Learning" is the keyword: a comprehensive learning experience that strongly relies on dialogue, in addition to using a variety of different media formats.

For example, with many features you already know from your familiar social media platforms: Connect with each other and communicate through the messenger. Stay up to date with the Activity Board, your onlineplus timeline. Check your personal Learning Analytics to see what you have achieved and where you stand. At the kick-off studycamp, open learning camps, and other optional events on-site, we provide opportunities to deepen and expand your contacts in the world of onlineplus. Experience an active learning community that accompanies you throughout your studies and beyond, as an alumnus of Hochschule Fresenius, will be a valuable network for you. At onlineplus, studying is a method. Structure and timing characterize the learning organization at onlineplus, providing clear orientation and fundamentally differing from conventional distance learning programmes. You start flexibly at a time you choose, and are guided through similarly structured learning units, modules, and semesters based on our study magazines, the studymags, with individually planned milestones.

This enables you to learn in manageable stages that provide regular sense of achievement and new motivation in your studies. The recommended study plan by onlineplus offers you the flexibility of numerous adjustment options to tailor the programme to your personal learning style, preferred study times, and pace. This way, you find exactly the programme that suits you. You have full transparency at all times: You can see your individual learning progress, what you have already accomplished, where you currently stand, and what lies ahead. This innovative and intuitive form of studies lays the foundation for the feasibility and success of your entire online studies.

Tip: The costs incurred for your part-time 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 your annual tax return. You can apply this option if the part-time studies are your first degree course, not initiated by the employer for business reasons, and not completed under an employment contract.

Alternatively, you can deduct the costs as business expenses in full from your taxes. This is possible if you have already completed a professional training or a first degree course before starting the part-time studies, or if the studies are ordered by the company. In this case, not only the tuition fees but also professional literature, among other things, can be considered as business expenses. For any tax-related questions, it is best to consult your tax office or a tax advisor.