Become a change agent! After your master degree, you'll lead your company into the future. You'll be able to coordinate and direct digital transformations, no matter what the industry. Because the future is digital.
The part-time master programme focuses on key business administration skills combined with expertise in digitalisation and innovation, as well as the ability to understand, motivate and lead people.
Degree
Master of Arts in Business
Organisational form
part-time / 4 semesters / 120 ECTS
Language
English
Study fee
363.36 EUR
Important dates
Date end
15.05.2025
15.04.2025
Info for non-EU nationals
A formula for success: theoretical knowledge + practical experience
The programme is built on three pillars.
Semesters 1–4
The business basics
The programme starts by covering business basics with a special emphasis on the strategic focus of companies. You'll deal specifically with corporate structure and prepare yourself to assume management tasks in digital settings.
You'll develop a deep understanding of the importance of continuous optimisation processes, but risk management is also an important element of the curriculum. You'll learn how to implement proactive company-wide risk management systems. In addition, you'll become familiar with tools for identifying and assessing risks. This will enable you to objectively assess opportunities and risks and therefore reach sustainable corporate decisions. Since technologies are developing rapidly, often exponentially, the degree prepares you for future scenarios and building corporate foresight: you learn how to continuously develop forward-looking strategies to prepare for future contingencies.
Semesters 1–4
The digital core topics
Innovation and digitisation have already become important corporate success factors and will become increasingly decisive for companies in the future. During your studies you'll learn how to embed these elements in your company and successfully transform existing processes. After graduation, you'll be excellently positioned to initiate and implement a transition from analogue to digital organisational structures.
In other words, you'll focus on how to make companies sustainable and competitive in the long term. You'll become an expert in ongoing change processes.
Digitalisation is a new discipline and as such is unable to tap into widely proven best practices. You will therefore learn how to experiment creatively and skilfully, and how to make evidence-based decisions, i.e. ones which are well-founded and data driven. You will gradually advance to become a data expert after taking a number of courses in data management and analysis, using statistical and programming tools such as R and SAS. You won’t be a fully-fledged data scientist or programmer, but by the end of the programme you'll be capable of working effectively alongside IT engineers and data scientists.
Semesters 1–4
The practical training
A practical focus is more than just a buzzword at IMC Krems; our lecturers share their real-life professional experience. Many of the programme’s lecturers are regarded as experts in the digital economy and can draw on international experience. Problems are discussed and dealt with on the basis of case studies. And the Innovation Lab, a joint project with companies in semester 2, gives students practical insights into the topics they have covered. You can select your project based on your interests and industry preferences. You can also learn from your fellow students by working in groups, all of whom can share their valuable experience from everyday professional settings.
The 4th semester is dedicated to your master thesis. Depending on your interests, your thesis will focus on a research-related or practical question. Ideally, your theses will examine a real-life project at your company. You can enhance your expertise on a topic of your choice and pick up valuable input from our experts. In parallel, you have the opportunity to spend a semester abroad at one of our numerous partner universities.
Re-imagine the business world! During your studies you'll ask yourself how you can advance digitalisation and innovation in your company.
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Application and admission
Is our degree programme just what you’re looking for? Here are your next steps!
We’ve put together all the relevant information for you.
What are the admission requirements for master programmes?
To qualify for a master programme, you must have completed a bachelor degree – with a workload of at least 180 ECTS and lasting at least six semesters – in a related subject, or hold an equivalent degree from a recognised Austrian or foreign higher education institution.
If your undergraduate studies are not sufficiently relevant, for instance if you’ve completed a degree in an unrelated subject, your qualifications will be assessed after we have received your completed application.
What language skills are required for this English language master degree programme?
For this programme, you will need additional proof of your language skills. You have the following options:
Option 1: No additional proof of English proficiency is required if:
- English is your native language
or - you already uploaded a recognised English language certificate (IELTS Academic Training – at least 7.0 Overall Band Score, Cambridge Certificate – Level C1, Toefl IBT – at least 94) at the time of your online application
or - you have verifiably completed your prior studies either entirely in English or bilingually, with at least 70 ECTS of the courses taught in English.
Please upload your existing English language certificate or proof of English as the language of instruction in your prior studies in the form of a list of English-language courses with ECTS (for example, the Diploma Supplement) at the time of your application.
Option 2: A combination of an existing proof of English language skills from your prior studies and an English test is required if you have completed less than 70 ECTS of the degree programme in English. The following combinations are accepted:
- Proof of at least a 6-month semester abroad in an English-speaking country together with the EF-SET50
or - English language courses of at least 10 ECTS in your prior degree programme, together with the EF-SET 50
Please upload proof of your semester abroad or the English language courses in your prior degree programme at the time of the application. The EF-SET 50 with the result level C1 can be submitted later until the start of the programme.
Option 3: An English language certificate is required if the aforementioned options 1 or 2 do not apply to you. The following English language certificates are accepted:
- IELTS Academic Training – minimum 7.0 Overall Band Score
or - Cambridge Certificate – level C1
or - Toefl IBT – minimum 94
You can submit the English language certificate until the start of your studies.
Option 1 and 2 do not apply to you and you still need an English language certificate as proof of your English language skills? Then make sure to contact the British Council regarding your IELTS certificate.
Important
Do you still need to complete your military or alternative service? If you’re a male Austrian citizen, we strongly recommend completing your compulsory national service before beginning your studies. This will allow you to finish your degree with no interruptions and start your career without delay afterwards.
Everything revolves around the students on our master degree programmes. That’s why we’d like to get to know you personally.
As part of the online application you will have to write a statement of motivation. Predefined questions about your motivation can be found in the online application. In your answers, which have to be entered in the provided input fields of the online application, you deal with the questions and explain your motivation to study the selected master degree programme
Your statement of motivation and your CV (curriculum vitae) form the basis for your application interview. The admission interview is a one-to-one interview, usually with the degree programme director.
In addition to getting to know you personally, your motives for the master degree programme will be discussed, as well as your professional background and the skillset you have acquired so far. Special attention will be paid to your previous academic and professional experience, your methodological and language skills and your general suitability with regard to your intended master degree programme.
The application interview is held in the language of instruction of the degree programme and can take place online via Microsoft Teams or in presence.
What are the dates for the interview?
There are usually a selection of dates to choose from, with quotas allocated for each date. You can select a date and time slot during the online registration process. We therefore recommend that you complete your application in good time so that you can benefit from the full selection of dates.
Once you have successfully completed your online application, it will be checked for completeness and accuracy. As soon as this process is finished, we will inform you via email and confirm your admission date.
There are no dates available at the moment.
| Application deadline for EU nationals | 15/05/2025 |
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| Application deadline for non-EU nationals | 15/04/2025 |
No application possible.
Application for the next study year possible from 1 December.
Application for the next study year possible from 1 December.
Team
Prof.(FH) Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Roger Hage
Institutsleitung
Core competencies
Digital Transformation; R Programming
Prof.(FH) Mag. Michael Reiner
Professor (FH) Institute Global Impact and Transformation
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Prof.(FH) Dipl.-Ing. Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Michael Bartz
Professor (FH) International Business and Economics
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Prof.(FH) Dr. Rubén Ruiz Torrubiano
Professor (FH) Institute Digitalisation and Informatics
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