Master in IT Governance & Assurance

Start date: September 28, 2023

End date: June 21, 2025

Duration: 2 years, part-time

In-class sessions are organized every 3 to 4 weeks in blocks of 2 days, 11 times per academic year (not during school holidays).

• Thursday from 2 pm to 10 pm
• Friday from 9 am to 5 pm

The program focuses on deepening, broadening and practicing your knowledge in enterprise &IT architecture. In addition, this program holds modules on business strategy, leadership, change, and risk management and data science management.

The complete master track represents a 60 ECTS study load. Alternatively, you can also register for each individual module:

• Residential opening seminar
• Digital Transformation: Strategy & Leadership (12 ECTS)
  • • Leading Digital Transformation
    • Mastering Digital Disruption
      

• Business Research Methods & Master Project Preparation Coaching
• Corporate Governance, Risk & Compliance (6 ECTS)
• Cyber Security Management (9 ECTS)
• Governance & Management Digital Assets (9 ECTS)
• Data Science for Business: Big Data Driven Analytics & Practices (6 ECTS)
• Master Project: evolving project, spread over the entire duration of the master program (18 ECTS)
• Master Project: group and faculty coaching & feedback sessions
• Leadership, Change and Personal Development
• ISACA Certification Lab (optional)
• Digital Transformation Labs (4) - powered by XPLUS
  
• Executive Master Electives (2) (optional)
  
  

After attending this program:

• You have broadened and deepened your knowledge of general management and IT governance, IT management and IT assurance;
• You can identify, communicate and manage the organization’s IT related business value opportunities and risks;
• You are able to prepare and to make management decisions in the domains of IT governance, audit, control, security and compliance;
• You can apply the international IT governance and assurance framework COBIT 2019;
• You are well prepared to successfully obtain professional ISACA certifications such as CISA (Certified Information Security Auditor), CISM (Certified Information Security Manager), CGEIT (Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT) and CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control).

Our experienced faculty will coach and assist you during this program. All of them have an academic career (master, PhD or DBA) and international experience in terms of career, research, project management, advisory boards and/or consulting. Many of them have published about their practice-based research, business cases and management experiences. Our faculty are experts in executive education, tailor-made programs and business consultancy.