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Business Management - Specialisation Automotive

Bachelor's degree 3 year

A glimpse of your future

Your Business Management & Automotive bachelor's degree will open many doors for you. With the Automotive specialisation, you are adding valuable and future-proof knowledge and skills to your Business Management degree. You leverage innovations and sustainability to ensure that your business model outpaces and stays ahead of the competition in the automotive industry. Interested in discovering the various career opportunities? 
Do you want to continue your education after completing the Business Management bachelor’s degree? This bachelor’s degree grants you access to many domestic and foreign master’s degrees.

Starting salary

The gross starting salary for recent graduates of Business Management is around € 2,924 per month (Higher Education Guide 2024).

Look at various professions

Successful in the automotive industry

After completing your Business Management bachelor's degree specialised in Automotive, a successful future awaits you. You are versatile and can work as a business professional in practically any organisation. With your broad business and management knowledge, complemented by expertise in automotive, economics, management, and strategy, you make yourself indispensable to organisations. You understand organisations like no other, investigate how companies operate, and provide advice on how the organisation can improve and optimize.

What can you do and where can you work?

What can you do after completing the Business Management bachelor's degree? There is a demand for well-educated young professionals with excellent organisational and business capabilities in every industry. Therefore, after completing this bachelor's degree, you are versatile and can be employed in various roles and fields.  

Think of professions such as:

  • Automotive engineer
  • Productmanager
  • (Organisational) Consultant
  • Account manager
  • Business consultant/analyst
  • Project manager
  • Business process analyst/manager
  • Custom relation manager
  • Sales engineer
  • Quality manager
  • Change manager
  • Business advisor
  • Entrepreneur

Where can you work? Examples include:

  • Industrial companies
  • Car industry
  • Multinationals
  • Non-profit organisations
  • Government
  • Racing world
  • Banks
  • Insurance companies
  • NGOs
  • Consulting firms
  • Logistics companies
  • SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises)
  • Legal business services
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From bachelor's to master's degree

With a bachelor's degree from Tio, you will be welcomed with open arms on the labor market. Aiming for a position in upper management? Then Tio's MBA, the Master of Business Administration, is the next step for you. After your bachelor's degree, you will obtain your MBA degree within one year.

The business community is crying out for enterprising and hard-working professionals with a wealth of practical experience. And a diploma from Tio opens even more doors. If you’re eager to start your career right after graduation, a Tio degree will make you well-prepared for amazing opportunities on the job market. Prefer to continue your education? At Tio, we make it simple: you can earn a Master of Business Administration in just one year.

Earn your professional master’s degree with our MBA programme. In this programme, you can choose from five specialisations:

No matter which specialisation you choose, you will be taught by passionate lecturers with extensive experience in their field. You will learn from their current work experience while tapping into their vast business network. Both of which are valuable assets for a professional like you!

More about our MBA

Alumni association

You can find Tio alumni everywhere! As an entrepreneur and in senior positions in various industries: from SME to multinational. With over 10,000 alumni, Tio offers you plenty of opportunities to build an extensive and valuable network.

Tio Alumni is committed to maintaining warm ties between former students and Tio and to strengthening contacts between its alumni. It offers the thousands of graduates opportunities to meet each other online and offline. Alumni also come together at networking events, masterclasses and events. Via the LinkedIn group Tio Alumni, Tio and its graduates share vacancies, industry information and knowledge. Tio likes to stay in touch with former students. That is why we have an alumni council consisting of former students who are involved in policymaking at Tio.

This programme is offered subject to accreditation. The bachelor's degree Business Management educates students in three or four years for the internationally recognised title of Bachelor of Science (BSc). If you choose the specialisation Automotive, your diploma will include an annotation listing that specialisation when you graduate. The curriculum is aligned with the national educational profile of Business Administration (ISAT-code 34035). Upon completion of this bachelor's degree, you will be awarded the coveted diploma from Tio University of Applied Sciences.