University of Twente, Programme International Business Administration, Bachelor of Science, Open days November 2015

1. OPEN DAYS 20 & 21 NOVEMBER 2015
PROF. DR. IR. PETRA DE WEERD-NEDERHOF
ANNA PELLEGRINO
TESSA VAN OOSTRUM

2. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
• Welcome!
• Programme part 1
– About International Business Administration
– Student’s experiences
• Break
• Programme part 2
– Students: workshop
– Parents: meeting
• End
PROGRAMME FOR TODAY

3. I AM … PROF.DR.IR PETRA C. DE WEERD-NEDERHOF

4. WHAT IS IBA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE?

5. MEETING THE PRO(F)S
Purchasing &
Supply Management
Human
Resource
Management
Financial
Management
Change
Management
Innovation &
Technology
Management
Marketing
& Strategy
Innovative
Entrepreneur
ship
Business
Information
Management

6. GAIN INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE FROM THE START
How many nationalities
are there?

7. PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

8. Year 1
• Q 1.1. TOP: Technology, Organizations, People
• Q 1.2. BOM: Business Operations Management
• Q 1.3. FAIS: Finance, Accounting & Information Systems
• Q 1.4. HOLI: HRM, Organizational Behavior, Law & Information Management
Year 2
• Q 2.1. SME: Strategy, Marketing, Economics
• Q 2.2. I&E: Innovation & Entrepreneurship
• Q 2.3. Programme – Specific Electives I:
SUM: Supply Management
BMNB: Digital Marketing or Networked Business
• Q 2.4. Programme – Specific Electives II:
Bit & PM: Business Innovation through IT Project Management
FENSI: Financing Entrepreneurial Start-ups and Innovative firms
Year 3
• Q 3.1. & Q 3.2. Study Abroad or UT Minor
• Q 3.3. CHANGEL: Change Management & Leadership,
Corporate Governance & Business Ethics
+ Preparation of BSc Thesis
• Q 3.4. Bachelor Thesis
STRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAMME

9. STRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAMME
YEAR 1
Year 1
Module 1:
Technology, Organisations
& People
Module 2:
Business Operations
Management
Module 3:
Finance, Accounting &
Information Systems
Module 4:
Human resources,
Organisational behaviour,
Law & Information
management
• First semester: develop an understanding of all important functions
within a modern company
• Second semester: How does a company operate in an international
environment? More in-depth knowledge!

10. STRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAMME
YEAR 2
Year 2
Module 5:
Strategy, Marketing &
Economics
Programme
elective 2
Programme
elective 1
Module 6:
Innovation &
Entrepreneurship
• Personalise the programme by choosing two elective modules to learn
in-depth about a specific domain.

11. STRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAMME
YEAR 3
Year 3
UT elective modules (30 ECs)
Study abroad
Crossing Borders
Electives in a
different/own field
of study
Module 11:
Change management, Corporate governance,
Business ethics & Leadership
10 weeks
Bachelor thesis

12. OUR TEACHING PRINCIPLE AND METHODS
From passive to active: project based education
• studying is not just a question of absorbing information in lectures
and reproducing it in examinations,
• but it is making discoveries independently and applying the
knowledge gained (Case Studies)
• The challenge
– To tackle the problems of the future
– Discover your own strong points
– To explore, design and organize!

13. Tutorials
Project workLectures
Company visits
Self-study
21/11/2015
OUR TEACHING PRINCIPLE AND METHODS

14. INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
YEAR 3
• Study abroad
– Over 130 partner universities around the world
– In 2015-2016 65 IBA students will follow
courses in different European, Asian, and US
universities
– UT financial support for study abroad – TMF
• Minor Crossing Borders:
– International internship
– Study Tour
• Organized by students for students:
a themed research project abroad
• In 2014 students went to Japan
• Bachelor Thesis Abroad

15. MINOR: STUDY ABROAD
Strathclyde Business School in Glasgow (Scotland):
• Understanding Consumers and Markets - Marketing
• Managing the Service Encounter – Hospitality & Tourism
• Work Psychology – HRM
Why?
• Personal development / Life experience
• Taking in a new culture / See the world
• Making new friends with different backgrounds
• Career opportunities
• Language skills
• The challenge!

16. REAL LIFE GLOBAL BUSINESSES

17. OUR IBA STUDENTS IN 2016-2017
• Ambitious
• Internationally-oriented
• Curious
• Open-minded
• Willing to explore and make the business world better

18. BINDING STUDY ADVICE
• Goal: to confirm at an early stage that a student has chosen the right
study programme or to divert the student to a more suitable
programme, if necessary.
• EC norm: Every student has to collect at least 45 EC of the 60 EC
(credits) in the first academic year
• Guidance of an academic counsellor
• Personal circumstances are taken into account

19. AFTER THE BACHELOR’S PROGRAMME

20. PURSUE A MSC IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
MSc. Business Administration
– new specialisation tracks
1. Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Strategy
2. Strategic Marketing & Business Information
3. Human Resourse Management
4. Purchasing and Supply Management
5. Financial Management
Strengthen your profile with: Change Management!
Go for a: Double Degree programme TU Berlin (1 and 2) , Lappenranta
(4), upcoming: Paris (3) and Stavanger (5)
Or: other (UT) MSc. Programme

21. CAREER – THE WORLD AT YOUR FEET
• Research, Manage or Design
• Excellent international career opportunities
• Consultancy, management or your own business?
• Many options in many sectors
– Industry
– Consultancy
– International organizations

23. ADMISSION

24. MATCHING
• Choose the programme that suits you best.
• Procedure:
– Register in Studielink for IBA
– You will receive an email with the URL of a
Matching Form
– You will be invited for the Study Try Out (1 day)
in May/June
- International students can request a Skype appointment (only afgter
filling in the Matching Form)

25. ADMISSION FOR DUTCH STUDENTS
All VWO profiles lead to admission,
but Cultuur & Maatschappij only with
mathematics A or B
Admission: because of matching, apply before May 1, 2016
Official deadlines:
• For Dutch students:
https://www.utwente.nl/onderwijs/bachelor/toelating-en-inschrijving/
• For international students:
https://www.utwente.nl/en/education/bachelor/admission/

26. ADMISSION FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS
• Pre-university school-leaving certificate equivalent to the Dutch
VWO-certificate
– i.e. German Abitur, Belgian 'Diploma van Secundair Onderwijs',
International or European Baccalaureate
• Sufficient level of Mathematics and English:
– subject of school-leaving certificate (i.e.German Abitur certificate
with “Mathematik und Englisch bis zum Abitur”) or completing the
University of Twente entrance exam
• Admission: because of matching, apply before May 1, 2016
Official deadlines:
• For Dutch students:
https://www.utwente.nl/onderwijs/bachelor/toelating-en-inschrijving/
• For international students:
https://www.utwente.nl/en/education/bachelor/admission/

27. STUDENT’S EXPERIENCES
ANNA PELLEGRINO & TESSA VAN OOSTRUM

28. HI THERE!
 Anna Pellegrino
 2nd year IBA
 From Milan, Italy
 Tessa van Oostrum
 3rd year IBA
 From Emmen, The Netherlands

29. Anna
 Lives near the campus
 Hobbies: social with friends,
watching tv-series, cooking
Tessa
 Lives in the city
 Hobbies: social with friends,
running, shopping, watching soaps

30. • Broad Study
• Integrated module, project based (TEM)
– Combination of practices and theory
– Great variety in teaching methods (lectures, project, guest lectures)
• Flexible
– Possibility to specialize (electives)
• International
• Small scale, personal approach
• Campus
WHY STUDY IBA AT UT?

31. Two IBA students
A day out of their life...

32. ANNA
• 07:20 Alarm clock.... Getting up & ready
• 08:30 cycling to
university

33. ANNA
 08:45 – 10:30 Finance lecture
 10:45 – 12:30 Methodology & Techniques tutorial

34. ANNA
 12:45 – 14:00 doing some group projects

35. ANNA
15:30 – 17:30 Meeting for extra project
Head of speakers

36. ANNA
 18:00 Dinner in the city with some friends

37. ANNA
 19:00 – 20:45 Studying at my favourite study place
 21:00 - ..??..
Drinks with some friends

38. TESSA
 09:00 Waking up way too early,
but time to go to the university!

39. TESSA
 10:45 – 12:30 Operations Management lecture
 making notes with my laptop

40. TESSA
 13:00 – 14:30 Group meeting

41. TESSA
 16:00 Time to clean the kitchen...

42. TESSA
 16:30 – 18:30 Studying Research Methods & Techniques

43. TESSA
 19:00 Dinner with my “jaarclub”
 22:00- ..??..
Drinks at the Antigoon

44. BEING AN IBA STUDENT IS…
Challenging

45. BEING AN IBA STUDENT IS…
Interesting

46. BEING AN IBA STUDENT IS…
Fun

47. THE TWENTE EDUCATION MODEL IS…
• Project-based education
• Integrated knowledge domains
• Company contact
• Team work
• Business skills
– Business communication
– Intercultural communication
– Academic writing
– Presenting

48. THEY ARE SUPPORTING US…
 Study advisors
 Teachers
 Quality meetings

49. EXPERIENCING
 Going from high school to university
 Introduction: Kick-in
 English-taught education
 Living away from my parents

50. BEING ACTIVE…
 Study association Stress
 Sports
 Culture
 Bedrijvendagen
 Create tomorrow

51. https://www.facebook.com/UtwenteIBA
FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK

52. BE A STUDENT FOR A DAY!
• Join a ‘meeloopdag’ with a student!
http://www.utwente.nl/en/student-for-a-
day/bachelor/
• Website
http://www.utwente.nl/bachelor/en/iba/

53. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT US!
Every work day available:
 Tel.: +31 (0)53-4895489
 E-mail: study@utwente.nl
 Website: bachelor.utwente.nl

54. QUESTIONS?

55. PROGRAMME FOR TODAY
• Presentation about IBA
• Student’s experiences
• Questions
• Break
– Students: Workshop
– Parents: Meeting
• End

56. FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK:
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/UTWENTEIBA