After your bachelor Logistics Management

Graduates are equipped to fill a range of positions, such as purchase manager, logistics manager, supply chain manager, project manager or advisor at (inter)national:

• transport companies
• wholesale companies
• retailers
• manufacturers
• ICT companies
• multinationals
• commercial enterprises
• consultancy firms

Please be aware of the fact that many graduates start at the bottom of the career ladder - in assistant positions - and work their way up to management positions.

In HBO Monitor 2018 (an independent guide containing a systematic quality comparison of study programmes in higher education) you can find an indication of the labour market prospects for recent graduates (average starter salary and percentage of unemployed among recent graduates). For the Logistics Engineering programme, the starter salary of recent graduates amounts to €14,42 per hour before tax. A year and a half after graduation, approximately 100% of the graduates have found a job of which 88% on a Bachelor’s level.

Breda University of Applied Sciences
Once you have earned your bachelor's degree, you may choose to continue your studies at Breda University of Applied Sciences with the brand new master’s programme Master Leadership in Supply Chain Management. This study programme will start in September 2020.

Cranfield University
Breda University of Applied Sciences has a cooperation with Cranfield University in Bedfordshire (Cranfield), United Kingdom, which means that Logistic Graduates can do their one-year MSc in Logistics and Supply Chain Management. It is a full-time Master of 11 months. A pre-master course is not necessary.

Cranfield University is the No1 education in the field of Logistics in Great Britain. You are allowed to sign up when you belong to the top 25% of your 3rd year and have acquired the Cambridge Advanced or Proficiency Certificate or IELTS 6,5 average for writing.

• For more information about this master, please visit the website of Cranfield University.
• Tuition fee: approximately £10.000,- per year.
• Dutch students can apply for a VSB bursary (information is in Dutch).

Other possibilities

To continue your studies for a Master of Science at different Dutch universities after having finished Logistics Management, you have to have done the Pre-master programme Strategic Business Management and Marketing that runs in your 4th year of Breda University of Applied Sciences. Once successfully passed, you can choose one of the following Master's Programmes:

• Erasmus University Rotterdam: Supply Chain Management
• Tilburg University: Supply Chain Management
• Eindhoven University of Technology: Operations Management & Logistics
• University of Maastricht: Global Supply Chain Management and Change (1 year)
• University of Maastricht: Management + International Business (1.5 years)
• University of Twente: business administration
• University of Amsterdam: business administration
• University of Brussels: business administration
• Radboud University Nijmegen: business administration

Once you have graduated, we would like to stay in touch with you. Because we are interested, but also because former students - more than anyone else - are capable of making a contribution to the quality of education at Breda University of Applied Sciences.

6,000-member Alumni database
Over the years, Breda University of Applied Sciences has built an alumni database with over 6,000 alumni registrations. It contains information on where our graduates currently live and work. Would you like to stay in touch with former fellow students? Register with the alumni database!