Master Business Engineering (MSE)
Technology meets entrepreneurship. The master’s program that takes both seriously.
Business Engineering combines data, processes, and innovation to help companies develop in a way that prepares them for the future. You will optimize value chains, make targeted use of data and artificial intelligence, and thereby make an important contribution to Switzerland as an industrial hub. You will tackle current challenges from the business world and research in a practical, hands-on manner.
As a graduate in the Business Engineering program, you will effectively design business models and successfully implement innovations in products and services. This makes you a sought-after specialist at the intersection of business, technology, and digitalization.
Program at a Glance
Degree
Master of Science in Engineering with Specialization in Business Engineering (90 ETCS)
Program Start
Spring semester: 22 February 2027
Autumn semester: 20 September 2027
Duration
3 semesters fulltime full-time or 5-6 semesters part-time
The degree program can be completed alongside professional employment.
Tuition
CHF 1,000 per semester
Campus
Rapperswil-Jona, St.Gallen or Buchs: You select one of these locations for your area of specialization.
Zurich: Theory and Context Modules
Admission
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in the field of Business Engineering. Academic performance across the entire Bachelor’s program must correspond to an ECTS grade of A or B.
More Information on Admission
Accepted Bachelor's degrees:
BSc Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen
BSc Industrial and/or Business Engineering
Other recommended bachelor's degrees:
BSc Maschinentechnik
BSc Systemtechnik
Admission Deadline
Spring semester: 30. November 2026
Autumn semester: 30 April 2027
Advantages of a MSE Business Engineering:
- Thinking about technology and business in one language: You understand technologies and markets, processes and people. That is exactly what companies are looking for in leadership roles.
- Strengthening Swiss industry: You will work on real-world business challenges and learn how to develop forward-looking products and value chains.
- Bridging the gap between technology and business: Anyone wishing to study engineering and business has plenty of options. But only a few programmes truly combine the two without compromising on either side.
- Connection to research: The MSE Business Engineering programme at OST is linked to seven active research institutes. This means that you won’t be studying from textbooks, but alongside researchers working on current issues facing Swiss industry. Your practical projects are carried out in real-world business contexts and make a tangible impact there.
- Support that makes all the difference: Small groups, direct access: your lecturers (advisors) provide you with personalised support as subject experts, sparring partners and gatekeepers to the professional world. What you never lose along the way is personal contact. Our lecturers support you throughout your entire degree programme. This is no coincidence, but a deliberate approach.
Technology and Innovation Management
Technologies are central to the development and commercialisation of innovative products, services, business models and processes. They rank among the most important strategic resources for product- and process-oriented companies. In the Technology and Innovation Management specialisation, you will acquire the skills to identify, develop, utilise, protect and evaluate technologies and customer needs in a targeted manner.
Operations and Production Management
You will gain a fundamental understanding of operational management methods and learn how labour, energy and materials are efficiently and effectively transformed into products and services. The engineering-based approach to operations management focuses on the collection and analysis of data and formal models in decision-making. You will acquire skills in risk and quality management.
Service Engineering
The service sector is the most important sector of the economy in many industrialised countries. The ability to develop and improve services is a key factor for success. Even within industry, services enhance the value of products. The MSE specialisation in Service Engineering takes a structured, engineering-based approach with a focus on data and information and communication technologies.
Business and Production Analytics
You will learn the methodology for measuring, evaluating and analysing the historical performance of business and production systems, and how to use this to make forecasts. You will learn how to use data to gain insights for optimising production processes. You will know how to implement the Smart Factory.
Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain Management (SCM) integrates all activities involved in the flow of goods and services – from the supplier right through to the end customer. By focusing on core competencies, coherent outsourcing and offshoring decisions, and the selection of appropriate distribution network configurations, we show you how supply chains can be strategically designed, coordinated and aligned with long-term business objectives.
Life Cycle Management
Product Life Cycle Management (LCM) deals with the process of managing the entire life cycle of industrial products and capital goods such as machinery and infrastructure. In the manufacturing sector, LCM focuses on the effective integration of people, data and business systems such as ERP, PLM and MES during development and use.