International Facility Management Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen

Overview

Every person needs a pleasant, safe and well-equipped environment to live, work and relax in. At home you can create your own living environment, perfectly catered to your own needs. Most people, however, spend a great deal of their time in public spaces or buildings with other people: at work, at school, or at the local sports club. It’s a Facility Management Professional's job to organise good facilities in these places. In this programme you will learn all aspects of becoming a good facility manager. What are places where you could work? Think of an office complex, a campus, a holiday resort, a football stadium, a hospital, a conference centre, a festival site or an industrial estate.

International Facility Management (IFM) at Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen is a business management programme centred around people’s perception and experience of organisations and public spaces. We generally work with, and in professional practice provide our students with, real-world learning opportunities. You are taught by professionals in the field, go on field trips (for example to the hospital) and carry out real-life projects. Some of these projects will take place in our living labs, where you will work with other students, lecturer-researchers and entrepreneurs to develop solutions for spatial design problems. For example, first-year students are instructed to measure the indoor climate of our classrooms. The results of these measurements are actually used to improve the indoor climate, helping our lecturers and students to perform more effectively.

Career Prospects

After graduation you will be able to find a job at a management level. The most popular jobs include:

• Head of facility services 
• Event manager 
• Sustainability manager
• Operations manager
• Facilities consultant
• Hospitality manager 
• Real estate professional 
• Purchasing specialist 
• Catering manager 
• Project manager
• Head of safety & ICT