Information and Service Management Aalto University

Overview

ISM graduates have:

• Multidisciplinary leadership & project management skills. Graduates are competent to lead people and projects at the intersection of technology and business.
• Quantitative data analysis skills. Graduates have a sense for business intelligence. Ability to analyse the rapidly growing volume and variety of available data utilised for business, technology and competitive intelligence.
• Analytical problem-solving competence. Graduates can solve practical business problems by effectively utilising modern managerial tools ranging from quantitative models and information systems, to various techniques for analysing big, open, and company-owned data.
• Service management skills. Graduates can analyse and develop business models for digital and service business, and analyse and develop services.
• Strong quantitative research skill sets. Graduates have competence to design and lead research.

Career opportunities

As a graduate of the Information and Service Management programme from Aalto University, you will have broad career prospects in the modern data-driven market: according to a recent study by Forbes on the employability of graduates, students with information systems, statistics and math majors are the most sought after. Moreover, information systems majors have some of the highest starting salaries of all business majors according to both Finnish and international studies. Quantitative data analysis skills are one of the growth areas in the next few years.

Aalto University has well-established career services that help you get employed in Finland and abroad. Aalto students tend to find good positions with ease upon graduation. An active entrepreneurship community is also present at Aalto, which can help as a springboard for founding your company. Finally, if an academic career is of interest, the Master’s programme in Information and Service Management is a great foundation for doctoral studies and post-doc positions.