MSc Accountancy

Program and courses 

Our 1-year program offers you a challenging but also rewarding curriculum, with experienced lecturers helping you to prepare for your professional life. The program provides you the opportunity to pursue your personal interest and career ambitions by offering two specializations: Auditing and Business Analysis and Control.

• Reinvented Master Thesis. Instead of one extensive document at the end of your studies, our so-called Master File Accountancy consists of multiple consecutive reports which complement each other in terms of their learning goals: a Business Application in which academic research is used to give advice on a real-life company problem; a Replication Study that focuses on the collection and analysis of data; and a Research Note in which students perform their own academic research study.
• Excellent integration with practice. The content has been developed in close collaboration with leading (international) companies and is regularly adjusted to current developments, such as sustainability and the use of data analysis and digital assets. You will work on real-world issues and also engage with industry professionals during various sessions. Additionally, you can participate in multiple activities or do an internship to further strengthen the link with practice.
• Focus on interaction and discussion. Our instructors encourage you to actively participate in lectures to enhance your learning experience and develop your critical thinking skills. By being on campus, interacting in smaller groups, and working on assignments in teams, we create a conducive environment for connecting, collaborating, and developing into a responsible young professional.
• Train your professional skills and learn how to negotiate or communicate with business partners or advance your Excel skills.
• Two tracks allow you to specialize in either:
  • Auditing
    Are you interested in verifying financial and non-financial information of organizations? Do you want to help provide accurate information to investors, banks, and other stakeholders to make relevant business decisions? Then the track Auditing is the right one for you.
  • Business Analysis and Control
    Do you want to plan and forecast the business activities of a company? Do you want to prepare data to support internal decision-making? This track offers that for you.
• Ambitious Accountancy students can also apply for the following:
  - The Extended Master's Program, which adds a traineeship of half a year to the regular Master's program.
  - The QTEM network program, which adds an additional year to the program which you spend at a QTEM partner university and corporate partner.
  - The Entrepreneurial Literacy Initiative (ELI) provides Master's students at TiSEM with tools to reflect and plan for an entrepreneurial career. 

Career prospects

Upon graduating you will receive a Master of Science with a specialization in Auditing or Business Analysis and Control.  Your Master's degree in Accountancy from Tilburg University opens outstanding career opportunities, whether your future is in accounting, business, finance, or higher management, here in the Netherlands or internationally.

This Master's degree is also an excellent stepping stone to the Post-Master Accountancy, European Post-Master Accountancy, and the Post-Master's program Executive Master of Finance and Control

Graduates work or start for example as:

• Senior Financial Accounting Advisory Services at Ernst & Young
• Business Intelligence Consultant at Achmea Holding
• Finance Compliance Analyst at Nike
• Business Controller at stichd
• Associate at PwC
• Corporate Treasury Director at NXP Semiconductors
• Business Controlling Manager EMEA at ECCO
• Audit Trainee at the Ministry of Finance
• Commercial Management Accountant at Royal FrieslandCampina

Start dates

• End of August
• End of January

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