Digital Transformation and Global Entrepreneurship (MSc)

1st semester

• Strategic and Technological Foresight
• Entrepreneurial Ideation and Prototyping
• Digital Transformation and Entrepreneurship
• Digital Business Models and Approaches
• Applied Artificial Intelligence
• Research Methods I

2nd semester

• International Entrepreneurship
• International Strategic Management
• Entrepreneurial Funding and Finance
• Disruptive Technologies
• Digital Implementation and Change
• Research Methods II

3rd semester

• Scientific Research Lab I
• Scientific Research Lab II
• Master’s Thesis (incl. Kolloquium)

Action Learning

We attach great importance to the application of content. This starts with the didactic concept of the degree programme, which is mainly based on action learning.

Network in practice

We also use our practical network to give you regular opportunities to work with companies (e.g. Makeathon or concept seminar).

Graduates can work as:

• Global entrepreneurs,
  who start and expand their own businesses, scale and network at a global level; connection to HNU activities and infrastructure.
• Intrapreneurs, business developers, innovators, strategists, digital transformers
  who drive companies and organisations forward internationally.
• Young scientists
  for the areas of digital transformation and global entrepreneurship.

• University degree with a minimum of 210 ECTS credits (University degree does not reach 210 ECTS)
• Applicants holding a bachelor’s degree comprising 180 ECTS credits must complete the four-semester programme (120 ECTS). In this programme, the first semester comprises six modules: German for Academic Studies, Integrated Skills: Academic English, Intercultural Skills, Research Skills, and two subject-specific modules.

• Applicants holding a Bachelor’s degree with 180 ECTS credits from a higher education institution within the Lisbon Convention must, as an alternative, make up the existing qualification gap of 30 ECTS credits by providing evidence of, or successfully completing, one of the following prerequisites:

  - Co-authorship of a research publication in English (research paper)
  - At least 6 months’ verifiable full-time professional experience following the award of the Bachelor’s degree in a role relevant to the programme’s subject matter (evidenced by an employment contract and/or employment references)
  - Evidence of additional modules totalling 30 ECTS credits from a previous degree programme.

• Applicants with a Bachelor’s degree from an institution outside the Lisbon Convention must provide a Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test. Applicants must achieve a minimum score of 153 in both Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning, and a score of 4.0 in Analytical Writing.
• Average mark of 2.5 or better
• 10 ECTS in the fields of digitalisation and 10 ECTS in the fields of business administration (or entrepreneurship)
• For international applicants: German A2 (Proof of language proficiency must be submitted by the time of enrollment.)
• The programme is approval-free

Winter semester: 02.05. – 31.08. with a 210 ECTS Bachelor's degree
For non-EU applicants:
Winter semester: 02.05. - 15.07.

Summer semester: 15.11. - 15.01. for non-EU applicants with a 180 ECTS Bachelor's degree

For the master’s degree programmes offered in English, you will need to submit evidence of level B2 English language skills with your application. This can be done in the following ways:

• corresponding results from a recognised language test (e.g. at least 72 points in TOEFL-IBT)
• evidence of adequate language skills from school or university transcripts
• completion of a degree programme that was verifiably taught entirely in English
• evidence that English is your native language

Non-native speakers of German must also provide proof of German language skills at level A1 upon enrolment. Upon request, this proof can be submitted later during the first semester.