SIBE-Digitalization-Master: AI, Data & Emerging Technologies
Understand technology. Shape digitization. Drive the future.
In the SIBE-Digitalization-Master: AI, Data & Emerging Technologies, you combine future technological topics with management, innovation, and leadership. In your project company, you apply your knowledge directly to a real digitalization project and develop from an user of digitalÂ
Highlights of the degree program
- In-demand tech know-how: Understanding AI, data & emerging technologies and using them for concrete business applications
- Job & Master from a single source: Directly connected with companies
- Real business impact: Develop digital solutions that matter in the company
- Additional degree: Optional online MBA (BRA)
- Personal career boost: Develop skills, accelerate opportunities
- International profile: Study in English, take off globally
24 months
Duration of study
M.Sc.
120 ECTS credit points
English
Seminar language
Strong network
Companies & Alumni
Your future between tech, business & innovation
AI, data, and new technologies are not just changing individual jobs — they are transforming business models, processes, and entire organizations. That is precisely why we need people who understand technological possibilities while knowing how to turn them into business value. Understand new technologies, recognize their potential, and learn how to develop relevant applications for your company from them.
With the SIBE-Digitalization-Master, you prepare yourself for roles at the intersection of technology, innovation, and management. Your digitalization project gives you the opportunity to demonstrate already during your studies that you can not only understand new technologies, but also apply them to real business challenges.
This qualifies you for fields of activity such as digital transformation, AI & data-driven business, digital strategy, innovation management, business development, or digital project management. With growing professional experience, the combination of technological understanding, management expertise, and leadership provides you with a strong foundation for advanced specialist and leadership responsibilities.
Your real master's project in the partner company directly combines your studies with your job, enabling you to apply new knowledge immediately. At the same time, you benefit from exchanges with other students, peer mentoring, and collaborative learning — while effortlessly building a valuable professional network.
Shape Digital Futures
Think with Data
Decode Markets & Trends
Build with Code
Lead Digital Change
Unlock the Power of AI & Data
Transform Data into Knowledge
Connect & Protect
Turn Tech into Business
Build Your Digital Skillset
Lead the Future of Work
Create Digital Impact
Your career at the intersection of business & technology
With your Master's degree, you position yourself where companies shape their future: between digital technologies, strategic decisions, and new business models. Whether in digital transformation, innovation management, technology management, business development, or data-driven business areas, a wide variety of paths to future-relevant specialist and management roles are open to you. How diverse these paths can look and where they lead is best shown to you by those who have already walked them: our students and alumni.
„This offers the opportunity to build a competency that can be brought back into the respective company!“
Oliver Rätz
„Above all, contact with many and diverse people has helped me progress!“
Annkathrin Ahn
„My time at SIBE helped me progress greatly, both professionally and personally.“
Assia Cappiello
„The Experience Based Curriculum of SIBE was ideal for me.“
Alena Müller
Further information
Admission requirements
- Completed initial degree at a German or foreign higher education institution with at least 180 credit points according to ECTS or an equivalent thereof
- English proficiency of at least level B2 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
- Broad experience through internships, international experience, volunteer work, professional experience or similar
- Successfully completed multi-stage selection process at SIBE
- A partner company by your side that supports your studies and provides you with a project. We are happy to support you in your search for a partner company.
Application documents
- Optional: Cover letter
- Current and signed CV in English
- University degree certificate and diploma or current transcript of records
- Employment references and/or internship certificates
- higher education entrance qualification (e.g., high school diploma or entrance qualification for universities of applied sciences)
- Proof of English language proficiency (at least B2 level, not older than 3 years). If no proof is available yet, we can recommend, for example, this free English test including a certificate: Free standardized English test according to the CEFR | EF SET
- For applicants with a university degree from China, Vietnam and India: Academic Evaluation Centre (APS) certificate, further information on this here.
Optional:
- additional references and certificates
- Recommendation letters, confirmations of voluntary work
Please combined into 1 PDF file (alternatively Word). Preferably, you can submit your application online via our homepage or send it to application@steinbeis-sibe.de. Please apply early. Course starts for the Master's programs take place several times a year and are independent of the official winter and summer semesters.
Selection process
- Application to SIBE, including complete application documents and proof of English proficiency
- SIBE selection process
- Career coaching and counseling, if required
- Selection process for company and, after signing the contract, subsequent start of work & studies
In the talent pool, you can search for a suitable company together with us. In doing so, you either identify the right company for yourself or you draw upon our posted job openings. As a rule, forwarding your application documents to our partner companies is only possible after the interview.
Financing
As part of the program, your partner company typically supports you not only with a monthly salary, but also by covering the majority of the program and tuition fees. The financing is generally handled as follows (deviations are possible in individual cases and should be discussed directly with the respective partner company):
Company contribution:
- Payment of a monthly student salary
- Assumption of program fees in the amount of €1,160.00/month (plus statutory VAT)
- Potential coverage of travel expenses for on-site seminars and an optional study abroad program (depending on the company)
- Time off for the seminars
Student contribution:
- Coverage of tuition fees of €350 per month (excluding VAT)
Online MBA option
Thanks to our long-standing cooperation with our partner universities, you can benefit from an online MBA option (BRA): Depending on your performance during your studies, you can receive an MBA certificate from one of our Brazilian partner universities in addition to the „Master of Science (M.Sc.)“ degree from Steinbeis University.*
The basis for this are bilateral agreements between SIBE and its foreign partner universities, subject to changes in legal or political framework conditions. There is no legal entitlement to the award of degrees or certificates.
Sample study plan
Here you can find further information on seminars and examinations. Furthermore, you will learn which seminars can be chosen as in-person or live online classes.
Optional study abroad programs
We believe that leadership and management must be thought of globally. Therefore, in addition to our degree and doctoral programs, we offer all our students and alumni exclusive insights into selected foreign markets. Benefit from SIBE's international network, which has been built up over the past 30 years.
This is what our optional study abroad programs are all about:
As part of our optional study abroad programs, you benefit from a unique mix of:
- Visiting national and international companies, chambers of commerce or associations and visiting plants or production sites if applicable
- Exchange with company representatives and/or university representatives on special topics of the respective market
- Insights into the respective culture through a country-specific cultural offering
Individual requests (e.g., visits to specific industries, etc.) will gladly be considered, just contact us about it.
This is an optional offer for all SIBE students and alumni, which is also made independently of any online dual degree options offered by our partner universities. Accordingly, the costs are not included in the tuition and program fees and will be incurred additionally. Please clarify individually whether you will cover the resulting costs yourself or if your partner company will bear them.
Successfully completed studies abroad:
- Study abroad programs in Brazil in cooperation with our partner universities, e.g., Universidade Vila Velha (Vila Velha)
- Study abroad programs in the USA in cooperation with Post University (Waterbury)
- Study abroad programs in China in cooperation with Nanjing Tech University
Contact regarding the optional study abroad program:
Contact person
Personal consulting on applications, admission and course of study.
