Your research career starts here

Are you eager to start your academic or business career in research? Are you ambitious and do you want to excel while studying at a top-research school? Do you want a perfect preparation for your PhD? Maastricht University School of Business and Economics offers two, two-year English-taught research master’s programmes that let you take the smart route to realising your career in research.

Enjoy the benefits

Enrol in the MSc Business Research or the MSc Economic and Financial Research programme and enjoy:
  • a world-class research environment at METEOR
  • the perfect preparation for your PhD
  • an attractive Research Assistant Grant Programme (including good options for an SBE PhD position)
  • excellent prospects of a successful academic or business career in research
  • simplified admission requirements for SBE BSc graduates (no GMAT or GRE required)

Specialise in your field of interest

In a class with the best research master’s programmes in the world, the SBE research master’s programmes are open for BSc and MSc graduates. After a challenging first year of the programme, you can choose one of the following specialisations:

MSc Business Research:

  • Marketing and Supply Chain Management,
  • Organisation and Strategy,
  • Accounting and Information Management.

Further details on compulsory courses, electives and specialisations can be found here.

MSc Economic and Financial Research:

  • Financial Economics,
  • Economic Theory,
  • Technology, Innovation an Growth,
  • Development and Utilisation of Human Resources.

Further details on compulsory courses, electives and specialisations can be found here.

Upon completion of your research master’s programme, you will be perfectly equipped to go on to do your PhD, which will only take a further average of three years.