MSc in Supply Chain Management Chalmers University of Technology

This Master’s program will train you to understand, analyze and manage the processes behind supply chains. You will graduate with a broad perspective, and the knowledge and know-how necessary to work across boundaries, in different types of organizations, helping them make fundamental improvements to their operations.

The need to organize and manage the global exchange of goods, services, and information between companies and organizations is growing at a rapid pace. The content of these exchanges is becoming increasingly technical and more complex, making the current moment a golden opportunity for engineers to take up managerial positions in everything from marketing, logistics, and purchasing, to transportation and production.

This program focuses on the design, management, and improvement of supply chain management strategies. It is a multidisciplinary program, built on several scientific fields. Supply chain management is a vital process for companies looking to improve their competitiveness, and this program will help you develop your skills in purchasing, logistics, marketing, transport, and general management, to help organizations reach their full potential.

You will learn not only to understand current best practices and trends but also to identify and analyze the complex changes that supply networks are continuously undergoing. Problem-based learning, including case studies and problem-solving with quantitative and qualitative models, will form an important aspect of education. With advanced theoretical knowledge and comprehensive practical experience of related concepts, you will learn how to improve the ways in which companies identify their needs to best produce and deliver products and services to their customers.

The fundamental areas of the program look at supply chain management, purchasing, and logistics, while a wide range of elective courses covers topics including production, transportation, lean management, marketing, and manufacturing.

​Career

The master's program provides students with overall perspectives on supply chains enabling them to work within and across intra-company functions as well as inter-company borders.

Large multinational firms such as Volvo, Scania, SKF, Skanska, Nestlé, Porsche, Procter & Gamble, Quiksilver, DHL, Schenker, and IBM, as well as top-flight consultancy firms such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, and ADL have employed many students who have majored in supply chain management at Chalmers. Other students have taken on management positions in small and medium-sized enterprises or continued to receive a Ph.D.

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.​