Thanks to TU/e’s central position in the Brainport region, this track – and the Operations Management and Logistics master’s program as a whole – features unique opportunities to interact with a world-renowned high-tech and deep-tech innovation ecosystem. TU/e Innovation Space, for instance, provides a community for students to practice challenge-based learning and entrepreneurship via complex societal and industrial challenges with researchers, businesses and over 40 student teams. In fact, TU/e is globally renowned for scoring the best on collaborations with the top 500 most innovative companies in the world. By the time you graduate, you will have therefore built up a strong network through which to seek out career options.
As a fresh graduate of Smart Services, you will be well prepared for a broad range of positions. Past experience shows that graduates access the job market easily, attributable to the fact that their profile and skills are highly valued: specialists in operations management and logistics in general and smart services specifically are in high demand. Many of our graduates have gone on to work for multinational, high-tech or service companies such as PwC, Bol.com, Deloitte, Sabic, Atos, Canon, ASML and Philips, as well as governmental organizations/ministries and research institutes like TNO. Actual examples of jobs that our recent graduates have found include:
- Process analyst
- Business developer
- Business architect
- Business intelligence engineer/specialist
- Process architect
- Software architect
Other options include the possibility to start one’s own company or set out on a career in research.