Master in Supply Chain Management (MSc)

MSc EBA SCM at CBS is a two-year, full-time master's taught in English. It takes 120 ECTS and about 70 students per cohort, with 47% coming from outside Denmark. The programme looks at supply chains as a whole: goods, money and information moving from raw materials to the customer and back again.

What you study

The programme splits into two topic areas. Trade and logistics makes up 65% and covers how global supply chains are structured, managed and optimised across markets and industries, including sourcing, production and distribution. Organisation and management makes up 35% and covers leadership, collaboration and organisational structures, plus managing people, partnerships and change processes.

Courses named on the programme page include Supply Chain Operations and Strategy, Supply Chain Configuration - Decisions and Models, Performance Management in Operations, Risk Management and Corporate Finance, Value Creation in Global Supply Chains, Managing the Sustainable Supply Chain Transformation, Business Analytics - Data Driven Operations and the Supply Chain Business Project. You work with forecasting, optimisation and data analysis alongside case studies, presentations and conceptual analysis.

How the programme is organised

The first year is made up of fixed courses across two semesters. The third semester is yours to shape: electives at CBS or another Danish university, a minor (typically three courses in one academic area), an exchange at one of CBS's more than 300 partner universities, an academic internship in Denmark or abroad with a project report, or the CEMS Master in International Management double degree, which runs alongside your CBS degree in the third and fourth semesters with part of it at a CEMS university abroad. The fourth semester is the master's thesis, usually written with a fellow student.

Teaching mixes quantitative and qualitative work. Exams are written exams on campus, written assignments, and oral exams, some individual and some in groups.

Who it suits

You should be curious about how goods, money and information flow across the world, and comfortable switching between numbers and big-picture thinking. The programme is not for someone who wants maths only: conceptual analysis, oral presentations and written reports are part of the work. Students here tend to have a collaborative and international mindset, and the social side of the cohort matters. You will meet Danish pedagogical traditions, which some international students find challenging and others find exciting.

Admission, language and next steps

Teaching is in English. The programme page does not list specific entry requirements, so check the entry requirements section on the CBS programme page and the programme regulations for the formal rules. Applications for master's programmes go directly to CBS, not through optagelse.dk. Students from the EU/EEA and Switzerland study free of charge; other students pay a fee that CBS sets. Note that the current version of MSc EBA SCM has its last intake in 2027, as CBS is moving to one-year full-time master's programmes and more part-time programmes from 2027. CBS runs Open Days where you can meet students and staff.

Master’s applications go straight to Copenhagen Business School, not through optagelse.dk, and the institution sets its own deadline. Entry requirements and language tests are set by the institution, so start from the official programme page. Our guides cover tuition fees, residence permits and housing.