MSc in Quality and Operations Management
Chalmers University of Technology
Key Information
Campus location
Gothenburg, Sweden
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
2 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
SEK 160,000 / per year *
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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* tuition fees for non-EU/EEA students
Introduction
For companies aiming to stay competitive in today’s global markets, constant evolution and improvement of operations and processes are essential. Innovation in bringing new products to the market, as well as refinement of existing products and processes, is needed more than ever. These aspects constitute the underlying core of this master’s program.
Industrial interest in this area is rapidly increasing, and the techniques, philosophies, and systems behind improving business operations and processes are becoming ever more widespread. Examples include Six Sigma, Lean Production, and Lean Product Development, with many industrial companies and public organizations now beginning to implement these or similar programs.
Successful implementation of these programs requires a change in mindset, alongside wider organizational transformation. Also crucial are specialist engineers, equipped with the knowledge and techniques needed to lead quality-driven change processes and business improvements. Students in this Master’s program will form the next generation of these engineers, graduating with the skills necessary to lead these transformations.
Studying this program will give you a thorough understanding of methods for identifying customer needs and business opportunities. A strong focus is placed on the usage of different qualitative and quantitative tools, production and delivery processes in manufacturing and services, and on techniques for their improvement. You will acquire the range of skills needed to manage improvement and change processes, whether in product development or production — skills including leadership, project management, and change management.
The program demands your active participation, and you will assume a large responsibility for your own educational process. Within the theoretical parts of the education, your ability to present ideas in both written and oral form will be tested and refined, and you will write, present and discuss cases and term papers at seminars.
A number of group projects will be carried out in cross-cultural teams, creating an ideal training arena for the international and diverse improvement projects you will come to lead in your career.
Career
Graduates of the program can find positions as quality and improvement process facilitators, problem solvers or change agents, production, quality, or product development engineers, or project managers. There is also the prospect of working within management in the above-mentioned areas as well as management consultants or academic researchers.
Examples of positions acquired by students of earlier versions of this program are management consultants, production engineers, quality engineers, Six Sigma Black Belts, project leaders in product development, and company internal quality consultants. Future career opportunities are not restricted to manufacturing organizations, but also include service-providing organizations and public services.
General entry requirements
A Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, Technology, or Architecture
To fulfill the general entry requirement for a Master's program at Chalmers (at advanced level/the second cycle), the prospective student must hold a degree that is equivalent to a Swedish Bachelor's degree (minimum 3 years, 180 Swedish higher education credits) in either Science, Engineering, Technology or Architecture.
- All applicants must document their formal academic qualifications to prove their eligibility. Only documentation from internationally recognized universities will be approved by the Swedish Council for Higher Education which manages the website universityadmissions.se.
- If an applicant is also a holder of a second degree such as a Master's degree, that may be to fulfill specific (course) requirements, it cannot be used to fulfill the general entry requirement on its own.
In your final year of Bachelor's Studies
Students in their last year of studies who don't yet have documentation of their soon-to-be-completed degree can be accepted.
Restrictions
Degrees that are constructed on one another cannot consist of the same course
Applicants who fulfill the general entry requirements for the second cycle (master’s level) programs and eventually specific entry requirements can be admitted to a master’s program. Applicants cannot be evaluated as unqualified in the qualifying academic merits which include courses from the program’s plan in those programs that they have applied for if that occurs.
Courses included in an earned first cycle degree (bachelor’s level) or professional qualification of at least 180 cr. (180hp) or the equivalent foreign qualification that are prerequisites for master’s qualifications may not be included in the higher qualifications. This also applies to prerequisite courses for master’s programs, regardless of whether they are included in the underlying qualification. *
*) Local Qualifications Framework for Chalmers University of Technology - first and second cycle qualifications.
Restrictions for Citizens from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)
Chalmers cannot admit applicants with citizenship of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea only to any program or course, due to the Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1509 of 30 August 2017 concerning restrictive measures against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and repealing Regulation (EC) 329/2007.
For applicants with double citizenship of which one is of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the other of another country, the citizenship of the other country has precedence in this respect.