Operations and Management Engineering is being phased out and will not be open for enrolment after 2024

Are you interested in working as a manager in a large international business? And are you interested in the technical elements, that make a business function? Then the two-year Master’s programme in Operations and Management Engineering at AAU CPH may be something for you. 

Be prepared to handle the challenges if globalisation

There is a general increase in global companies and as a result, there is an increasing demand for graduates who can meet the challenges that come with globalisation. Studying Operations and Management Engineering at AAU CPH, you learn to develop and execute development strategies in an international perspective.

Offshoring and outsourcing of different activities within a company’s value chain are creating a completely new managerial agenda. This study programme will give you the expertise needed to analyse, understand and solve the challenges associated with the disintegration and globalisation of a company’s value chain. In addition, the study programme addresses the globalisation challenges from an innovation perspective by investigating the problems and opportunities in developing innovative global business models and systems.

The Master's programme provides you with competences in international strategy and change processes, and you gain tools for analysis, organisation, and development in a global context.

Furthermore, the study programme focuses on the globalisation challenges faced by a wide range of different companies and industries – for example pharmaceutical companies, companies in the service and IT industries as well as industrial companies.

This is a full-time study programme, which is characterised by problem based project work in groups. You will be working closely with other students most of the time, and you are required to be present at the university on a daily basis and spend a vast majority of your day there.

In your semester projects, you and your project group will work with relevant issues in relation to operations and management engineering, that challenge you to use all of your knowledge to come up with possible solutions. You are encouraged to collaborate with external organisations and businesses in your projects to get an idea of the work processes and current issues in the industry. This will prepare you better for your own work life after you graduate.

If you complete the Master’s programme, you are entitled to the designation Master of Science (MSc) in Engineering (Operations and Management Engineering).

Graduates from the study programme typically work as managers, specialists and consultants in a wide range of different organisations such as Carlsberg, Vestas, Danske Bank, Accenture, IBM and Siemens.

Academic content 

Studying the Master’s programme in Operations and Management Engineering, you work with topics such as:

• Development and configuration of a company’s global value chains
• Supply chain management
• Use of digital technologies in a company’s supply chain including initiatives to implement Industry 4.0, additive manufacturing, blockchain etc.
• Technical management and innovation
• The interplay between technology, value chains and organisation

The teaching combines lectures and project work and on the first two semesters, your study time will be divided equally between courses and project work. Each semester has an overall theme and within this theme, you conduct a semester project with your project group, where you investigate and attempt to solve a relevant issue within your field of study.

The study programmes at AAU are based on problem based learning and project work, which gives you a unique opportunity to acquire new knowledge and competences at a high academic level in an independent manner. You get to apply theory to practice in your semester projects, which will prepare you better for your future career.

Job and career

Problem based learning and working in groups during your study programme will give you many useful skills that make you an attractive candidate on the job market. You know how to approach a problem and solve it in collaboration with other people, which is often how things are done in the “real world”.

Graduates from the Master’s programme in Operations and Management Engineering typically work in a wide range of different organisations such as:

• Novo Nordisk
• Maersk Line
• McKinsey
• Deloitte Consulting
• Accenture
• Implement Consulting
• KPMG
• Coloplast
• Siemens
• F.L. Smith
• DSV
• Grundfos

During the programme, you can work closely together with industrial partners when writing your semester projects. This prepares you to meet the challenges in a company and can provide you with a network even before graduation.

Your future job title may be:

• Management Consultant
• Sales and Operations Manager
• Supply chain Development Manager
• Supply Chain Coordinator
• Supply Chain Analyst
• Consultant
• Global Process Developer
• Strategic Purchaser
• Business Analyst
• Project Coordinator
• Production Planner
• Process Manager