Pre-master for Engineering Management MSc Students | Department of Engineering Management

Pre-master's for Engineering Management MSc Students

Pre-master courses:

Basics of Economics - instructor: Dr. Lubna Owais Anwer

Basics of Management - instructor: Dr. Andrea Matkó

Basics of Accounting and Controlling - instructor: Dr. Tünde Jenei

About the course schedule, you will get information from the instructors.

How do I know whether I have to complete pre-master's?

The Acceptance letter sent via email by the Coordinating Centre for International Education contains the name of the pre-master's courses, or you can get information about them via email from your Faculty Coordinator, Ms Timea Török (torok.timea@eng.unideb.hu).

What happens if I don't complete these courses?

Pre-master's courses are not included in the curriculum, but students whose credit recognition form specifies the completion of pre-master's courses have to complete them as a degree requirement. The completion is checked after the second semester, and in case of missing pre-master's courses, the process of cancelling the student status starts.

What should I do if I have to complete a pre-master's course, but I studied the subject in my previous studies?

The decision about the pre-master courses is made by the Department based on your transcript of records. In certain cases, the title of the subject doesn't reflect the real content or the quality of the course. If you have studied the material of the specified pre-master subject, please send a detailed official course description about it to the relevant instructor of the course, and the decision can be reconsidered. In case of acceptance, please inform the administrators at the Registrar's office and the Department of Engineering Management.

Where can I see my pre-master courses?

You can find these courses in the Neptun system among "Elective courses". However, it is important to know that these courses do not count in the credits of optional subjects.

The Department of Engineering Management is responsible for opening the pre-master's courses on Neptun, and students must register for the course/courses at the beginning of the term in the subject registration period. It is not necessary to complete all of them in one semester.

What should I do if I don't see the registered pre-master course in my schedule?

Generally speaking, pre-master's courses take place in block sessions either in the registration week or in the drawing week (also known as reporting week) or in the examination period. Registered course participants are informed about the exact date and venue for the classes by the course instructor(s) via email/Neptun message.

In certain cases, they can also be scheduled.

Do pre-master courses count as optional subjects?

No, pre-master's courses are not included in the curriculum; therefore, the credit points are also not counted in the 120 credits.

Pre-master's courses for Engineering Management MSc students:

MFBEF71M08-EN Basics of Economics (10 hours, exam)
MFBOM71M08-EN Basics of Management (10 hours, exam)
MFBAC71M08-EN Basics of Controlling and Accounting (10 hours, exam)

What are pre-master courses?

For each master’s it is defined by the Higher Education Act what kind of studies are required from earlier studies (from BSc or from possible MSc trainings).

Depending on the earlier studies of the applicant, one of the following cases will apply to her/him:

1. Applicant has a bachelor's degree of a certain major and he/she chooses the same master’s training program (e.g. with a Mechanical Engineering BSc degree you apply for Mechanical Engineering MSc). In this case, credit points can be fully recognized, and the application is accepted (without prescription of pre-master's courses).

2. Applicant has a bachelor's degree in a certain major, and he/she chooses a different master’s training program (e.g., with a Mechanical Engineering BSc degree he/she applies for Mechatronical Engineering MSc). In this case, the Department responsible for the major will check his/her BSc transcript (the completed subjects), compare it with the prerequisites defined in the “Educational and Outcome Requirements” of the major, and fill out the form Decision about Credit Recognition in which the Department either accepts or refuses the application as follows:

a. If the applicant fulfils the prerequisites defined in the “Educational and Outcome Requirements” of the major, the Department states in the Decision about Credit Recognition that the application is accepted and no further discipline-bringing courses should be completed.

b. If the applicant nearly fulfils the prerequisites defined in the “Educational and Outcome Requirements” of the major, the Department states in the Decision about Credit Recognition that the application is accepted, and the applicant may start his/her studies if he/she agrees to complete the prescribed pre-master's courses in his/her first academic year.

c. If the content of the bachelor's degree of the applicant is very far from the science field of the master’s program, it can happen that the prerequisites defined in the “Educational and Outcome Requirements” of the major cannot be fulfilled even by completing pre-master's courses. In this case, the Department refuses the application.

The “Educational and Outcome Requirements” of the Engineering Management Master's define the following:

Bachelor’s degrees with full credit point recognition
How many completed credit points can be taken into account and from which fields
Relation of the completed credit points and application

Entry requirements Engineering Management MSc

Credit points can be fully recognized from: Engineering Management Bachelor’s degree

Completed credit points can be taken into account from the following fields:

Natural Sciences (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Mechanics, Materials Science, Biology): 20 credit points;
Economics and Humanities (Economics, Corporate Finance, Quality Assurance, Environmental Management, Statistics in Economics, Social Science) 10 credit points;
Professional Skills (Technical Drawing; Machines, Constructions, Computer Science and Applications; Manufacturing and Technological Skills; Management; Finances; State Administration and Law; complex professional skills from the field of Engineering, Technology, Management and Economics): 20 credit points.

	Application accepted without description of pre-master courses	Application accepted with description of pre-master courses	Application not accepted
In case of any BSc degree	over 50 credit points	30-49 credit points	0-29 credit points

Students with a minimum credit point of 30 from previous studies can start their studies on the Engineering Management MSc. The missing credits should be obtained in the first two semesters of the program.