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Timeline & courses

Master in Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

Your learning and development journey

On this page you can find more details about the curriculum and program structure for the Master in Analytics and Artificial Intelligence 

The Master in Analytics and Artificial Intelligence program begins in September each year and lasts for 24 months. The full two-year program is worth 120 ECTS credits.



The program is designed to give you a business education while equipping you with sought-after skills relating to analytics and AI tools, preparing you for a career as a digital innovation consultants, analytics leader or technological change agents 

The structure in two parts includes: 

  • Foundation courses covering the most important aspects of Data Analysis, Data Management, Machine Learning, Coding, and their application in business decision-making 

  • Advanced electives delving deeper into industries and applications e.g. Value Chain Analytics, AI and Society, Global Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship 

Program timeline

x
Pre-program Courses
Prior to the program start

Pre-program Courses 

  • Python Data Fundamentals 
  • Statistics Fundamentals with R 

Pre-program Courses 

  • Python Data Fundamentals 
  • Statistics Fundamentals with R 
Prior to the program start
September
December
x
Term 1
September - December

Term one

Core courses, including

  • Business Economics

  • Judgement and Decisionmaking

  • Organizational Analytics: Data, Models, and People

  •  Operations and Global Supply Chain Management

  • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

  • Advanced Decision Analysis

  • Econometrics

Skills Seminar

  • Business Presentation

  • Coding in Python (mandatory)

  • Key Writing Skills

  • Public Speaking

  • Time Management

Term one

Core courses, including

  • Business Economics

  • Judgement and Decisionmaking

  • Organizational Analytics: Data, Models, and People

  •  Operations and Global Supply Chain Management

  • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

  • Advanced Decision Analysis

  • Econometrics

Skills Seminar

  • Business Presentation

  • Coding in Python (mandatory)

  • Key Writing Skills

  • Public Speaking

  • Time Management

x
Term 2
January - March

Term two

Core courses, including

  • Data Scraping and Processing

  • Data Management

  • Data Visualization

  •  Introduction to Machine Learning

  •  Causal Inference in AI Models

  •  Analytics and Society

  • Advanced Marketing and Modeling

  • Consumer Preference Modeling

Skills seminar

  • Cross Cultural Management

  •  Effective Virtual Collaboration

  • SCRUM

  • Process Mining

  • The Psychology of Conflict Resolution

Term two

Core courses, including

  • Data Scraping and Processing

  • Data Management

  • Data Visualization

  •  Introduction to Machine Learning

  •  Causal Inference in AI Models

  •  Analytics and Society

  • Advanced Marketing and Modeling

  • Consumer Preference Modeling

Skills seminar

  • Cross Cultural Management

  •  Effective Virtual Collaboration

  • SCRUM

  • Process Mining

  • The Psychology of Conflict Resolution

January
March
April
September
x
Term 3
April - September

Internship

Complete an internship of up to six months with a company that aligns with your careers goals, in coordination with ESMT. German students are encouraged to complete their internship abroad. 

ESMT currently works with a growing number of companies to offer internships. 

Internship

Complete an internship of up to six months with a company that aligns with your careers goals, in coordination with ESMT. German students are encouraged to complete their internship abroad. 

ESMT currently works with a growing number of companies to offer internships. 

Please note that while ESMT has agreements with internship providers to offer internships, participants are still required to apply and pass the target company’s selection procedures. Participants may also source their own internship opportunities. 

This year, students gained internship positions at (examples): 

  • Boeing working in Market Research & Strategy Support 

  • Daimler working as a Risk Management Intern 

  • United Nations as an Intern in Information and Communication Technology Section 

  • Deutsche Bahn AG in Strategic Organizational Development 

  • Helix Cognitive Computing GmbH as a Blockchain Research & Cryptoeconomics Trainee 

  • Rocket Internet SE working as an International Finance Intern 

  • Bayer Healthcare working in Digital Health and Innovation 

Besides Germany, students are gaining international experience by interning in Japan, Turkey, Switzerland, France, South Korea and Kenya. 

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x
Term 4
October - December

Term four 

Electives

  •  Modeling and AI for Sustainability

  •  Innovating with AI: Large Language Models in Business

  • Survey Design

  • The Data Scientist: Modern Tools

  • Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing

  • International Finance and Risk Management

  • Investments I

  • Investments II

  • Doing Business Sustainably

  • MARGA Strategy Simulation

  • Analytics Leadership

Skills seminar

  • Analytics Project Management

  • Building Professional Networks

  • Consulting

  • Designing for Social Inclusion

  • Human Rights in Business

  • Innovation Project Management

  • Storytelling

Foreign language classes

Term four 

Electives

  •  Modeling and AI for Sustainability

  •  Innovating with AI: Large Language Models in Business

  • Survey Design

  • The Data Scientist: Modern Tools

  • Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing

  • International Finance and Risk Management

  • Investments I

  • Investments II

  • Doing Business Sustainably

  • MARGA Strategy Simulation

  • Analytics Leadership

Skills seminar

  • Analytics Project Management

  • Building Professional Networks

  • Consulting

  • Designing for Social Inclusion

  • Human Rights in Business

  • Innovation Project Management

  • Storytelling

Foreign language classes

October
December
January
May
x
Term 5
January - May

Term five

Electives

  • Analytics and AI for Healthcare Management

  • Advanced Optimization Models

  • Advanced Investment Strategies

  • Alternative Investments

  • Ambidextrous Leadership

  • Open and Distributed Models of Innovation

  • Negotiation

  • Risk Modeling

  • Social Entrepreneurship - Nonprofit Management

  • Valuation

+ MIE and MGM core courses

Skills seminar

  •  Applied Improvisation and Creativity

  • Cyber Security

  • Impact Consulting

  • LEGO Serious Play

Analytics Student Consulting Project

Introduction to Research Method + Research Strategies Week

Foreign language classes

Term five

Electives

  • Analytics and AI for Healthcare Management

  • Advanced Optimization Models

  • Advanced Investment Strategies

  • Alternative Investments

  • Ambidextrous Leadership

  • Open and Distributed Models of Innovation

  • Negotiation

  • Risk Modeling

  • Social Entrepreneurship - Nonprofit Management

  • Valuation

+ MIE and MGM core courses

Skills seminar

  •  Applied Improvisation and Creativity

  • Cyber Security

  • Impact Consulting

  • LEGO Serious Play

Analytics Student Consulting Project

Introduction to Research Method + Research Strategies Week

Foreign language classes

x
Term 6
May - August

Master thesis

While working on your Master thesis, you can choose to seek the opportunity of a second internship and carry out your research with support from practitioners. 

If you intend to pursue an academic career, you may opt for working on a thesis topic in close coordination with a professor’s own research agenda.

Master thesis

While working on your Master thesis, you can choose to seek the opportunity of a second internship and carry out your research with support from practitioners. 

If you intend to pursue an academic career, you may opt for working on a thesis topic in close coordination with a professor’s own research agenda.

May
August

Program timeline

Prior to the program start
x
Pre-program Courses
Prior to the program start

Pre-program Courses 

  • Python Data Fundamentals 
  • Statistics Fundamentals with R 

Pre-program Courses 

  • Python Data Fundamentals 
  • Statistics Fundamentals with R 
September
December
x
Term 1
September - December

Term one

Core courses, including

  • Business Economics

  • Judgement and Decisionmaking

  • Organizational Analytics: Data, Models, and People

  •  Operations and Global Supply Chain Management

  • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

  • Advanced Decision Analysis

  • Econometrics

Skills Seminar

  • Business Presentation

  • Coding in Python (mandatory)

  • Key Writing Skills

  • Public Speaking

  • Time Management

Term one

Core courses, including

  • Business Economics

  • Judgement and Decisionmaking

  • Organizational Analytics: Data, Models, and People

  •  Operations and Global Supply Chain Management

  • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

  • Advanced Decision Analysis

  • Econometrics

Skills Seminar

  • Business Presentation

  • Coding in Python (mandatory)

  • Key Writing Skills

  • Public Speaking

  • Time Management

January
March
x
Term 2
January - March

Term two

Core courses, including

  • Data Scraping and Processing

  • Data Management

  • Data Visualization

  •  Introduction to Machine Learning

  •  Causal Inference in AI Models

  •  Analytics and Society

  • Advanced Marketing and Modeling

  • Consumer Preference Modeling

Skills seminar

  • Cross Cultural Management

  •  Effective Virtual Collaboration

  • SCRUM

  • Process Mining

  • The Psychology of Conflict Resolution

Term two

Core courses, including

  • Data Scraping and Processing

  • Data Management

  • Data Visualization

  •  Introduction to Machine Learning

  •  Causal Inference in AI Models

  •  Analytics and Society

  • Advanced Marketing and Modeling

  • Consumer Preference Modeling

Skills seminar

  • Cross Cultural Management

  •  Effective Virtual Collaboration

  • SCRUM

  • Process Mining

  • The Psychology of Conflict Resolution

April
September
x
Term 3
April - September

Internship

Complete an internship of up to six months with a company that aligns with your careers goals, in coordination with ESMT. German students are encouraged to complete their internship abroad. 

ESMT currently works with a growing number of companies to offer internships. 

Internship

Complete an internship of up to six months with a company that aligns with your careers goals, in coordination with ESMT. German students are encouraged to complete their internship abroad. 

ESMT currently works with a growing number of companies to offer internships. 

Please note that while ESMT has agreements with internship providers to offer internships, participants are still required to apply and pass the target company’s selection procedures. Participants may also source their own internship opportunities. 

This year, students gained internship positions at (examples): 

  • Boeing working in Market Research & Strategy Support 

  • Daimler working as a Risk Management Intern 

  • United Nations as an Intern in Information and Communication Technology Section 

  • Deutsche Bahn AG in Strategic Organizational Development 

  • Helix Cognitive Computing GmbH as a Blockchain Research & Cryptoeconomics Trainee 

  • Rocket Internet SE working as an International Finance Intern 

  • Bayer Healthcare working in Digital Health and Innovation 

Besides Germany, students are gaining international experience by interning in Japan, Turkey, Switzerland, France, South Korea and Kenya. 

show more
October
December
x
Term 4
October - December

Term four 

Electives

  •  Modeling and AI for Sustainability

  •  Innovating with AI: Large Language Models in Business

  • Survey Design

  • The Data Scientist: Modern Tools

  • Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing

  • International Finance and Risk Management

  • Investments I

  • Investments II

  • Doing Business Sustainably

  • MARGA Strategy Simulation

  • Analytics Leadership

Skills seminar

  • Analytics Project Management

  • Building Professional Networks

  • Consulting

  • Designing for Social Inclusion

  • Human Rights in Business

  • Innovation Project Management

  • Storytelling

Foreign language classes

Term four 

Electives

  •  Modeling and AI for Sustainability

  •  Innovating with AI: Large Language Models in Business

  • Survey Design

  • The Data Scientist: Modern Tools

  • Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing

  • International Finance and Risk Management

  • Investments I

  • Investments II

  • Doing Business Sustainably

  • MARGA Strategy Simulation

  • Analytics Leadership

Skills seminar

  • Analytics Project Management

  • Building Professional Networks

  • Consulting

  • Designing for Social Inclusion

  • Human Rights in Business

  • Innovation Project Management

  • Storytelling

Foreign language classes

January
May
x
Term 5
January - May

Term five

Electives

  • Analytics and AI for Healthcare Management

  • Advanced Optimization Models

  • Advanced Investment Strategies

  • Alternative Investments

  • Ambidextrous Leadership

  • Open and Distributed Models of Innovation

  • Negotiation

  • Risk Modeling

  • Social Entrepreneurship - Nonprofit Management

  • Valuation

+ MIE and MGM core courses

Skills seminar

  •  Applied Improvisation and Creativity

  • Cyber Security

  • Impact Consulting

  • LEGO Serious Play

Analytics Student Consulting Project

Introduction to Research Method + Research Strategies Week

Foreign language classes

Term five

Electives

  • Analytics and AI for Healthcare Management

  • Advanced Optimization Models

  • Advanced Investment Strategies

  • Alternative Investments

  • Ambidextrous Leadership

  • Open and Distributed Models of Innovation

  • Negotiation

  • Risk Modeling

  • Social Entrepreneurship - Nonprofit Management

  • Valuation

+ MIE and MGM core courses

Skills seminar

  •  Applied Improvisation and Creativity

  • Cyber Security

  • Impact Consulting

  • LEGO Serious Play

Analytics Student Consulting Project

Introduction to Research Method + Research Strategies Week

Foreign language classes

May
August
x
Term 6
May - August

Master thesis

While working on your Master thesis, you can choose to seek the opportunity of a second internship and carry out your research with support from practitioners. 

If you intend to pursue an academic career, you may opt for working on a thesis topic in close coordination with a professor’s own research agenda.

Master thesis

While working on your Master thesis, you can choose to seek the opportunity of a second internship and carry out your research with support from practitioners. 

If you intend to pursue an academic career, you may opt for working on a thesis topic in close coordination with a professor’s own research agenda.

Additional options include:

Finance Options: Finance Certificate

As part of your elective course choice, you can opt to complete five advanced courses in Finance subjects with a focus on global investment strategies. 

You will be issued an ESMT Finance Certificate in addition to your Master Degree. 

Language training

Foreign language training is fully integrated into the curriculum of the Master in Global Management program. It is available to all students and has a value of 8 ECTS.

ESMT collaborates with the GLS language school that has been offering language courses in Berlin since 1983. 

During the two-year period of study, there is an opportunity to choose one of these four languages:  

  • German 
  • Spanish,  
  • French, 
  • Chinese.  

The language groups consist of a maximum of 12 participants and a minimum of 4 participants, for a Chinese course a minimum of 2 participants. Classes take place at the GLS campus in Kastanienallee 82 and run once a week from October to December and January to March. 

Your learning experience

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Collaborative learning 

Modern business is data driven. 

ESMT students thrive in an environment open to new technologies.  

With over 30 nationalities represented in the classroom you will benefit from fresh perspectives, unique experiences, and a broad set of skills. ESMT Berlin's unique approach to collaborative learning means you primed with valuable practical experience working in international teams and overcoming real-world challenges relating to adoption and implementation of technology. 

Meet Members of the Master in Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Faculty

Catalina Stefanescu-Cuntze

Nationality: Romania/UK
 

Education: Cornell University, Ph.D.
 

Research area/focus: Credit risk, customer analytics 
 

Courses taught: Analytics leadership 

 

Vlada Pleshcheva

Nationality: Russia


Education: Humboldt University Berlin, Dr. rer. pol.


Research area/focus: Leveraging advanced analytics to understand consumer behavior and devise environmentally sustainable strategies
 

Courses taught: Value Chain Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Advanced Marketing Modeling, Consumer Preference Modeling

Nazlı Sönmez

Nationality: Turkey 


Education: London Business School, Ph.D.


Research area/focus: Operational innovation in healthcare 


Courses taught: Operations and Global Supply Chain Management, Analytics and AI for Healthcare Management 

Tamer Boyaci

Nationality: Canada/Turkey


Education: Columbia University, Ph.D.
 

Research area/focus: Human-AI collaboration, sustainable operations
 

Courses taught: Modeling and AI for Sustainability

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