Business Management - Specialisation Start-up & Family Business

Bachelor's degree 3 year Full time

A glimpse of your future

With your Bachelor's degree in Business Management, there are numerous career paths you can explore. By specialising in Start-up & Family Business, you add valuable and future-proof knowledge and skills to your Business Management studies. Prepare yourself for a career as an entrepreneur, whether you are laying the foundation for your own business or following in the footsteps of previous generations in a family business. 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 approximately €3,177 per month (Higher Education Guide 2025).
The Higher Education Guide bases this figure on the Bachelor Monitor 2024, which uses salary data from late 2023.
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Successful in every industry

In this challenging programme, you have the opportunity to develop your business vision and prepare yourself thoroughly for entrepreneurship. With the experience gained during your studies and the network you build, you are already a significant step ahead of your competition.
After completing your Business Management bachelor's degree, a successful future awaits you. You are versatile and can work as a business consultant in almost any organisation. You can start your own business or follow in the footsteps of previous generations within a family business. With your broad business and management knowledge supplemented with entrepreneurship, economics, and strategy, you make yourself indispensable. You can translate your vision into practical and achievable plans and develop a strategy. This opens the door to countless career opportunities.

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: 

  • Entrepreneur
  • Chief operational officer
  • Start-up manager
  • Director within a family business
  • Innovation manager
  • Fund manager for start-up investments
  • Business consultant
  • Entrepreneurial advisor
  • Family business consultant 
  • Account manager
  • Project manager
  • Business process analyst
  • Quality manager 
  • Business process manager
  • Change manager

Where can you work? Examples include:

  • Own company
  • Family business
  • Multinationals
  • Industrial companies
  • Nonprofit organizations
  • Government
  • Banks
  • Insurance companies
  • NGOs
  • Consulting firms
  • Logistic companies
  • SME
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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!

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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 Start-up & Family Business, your grade list 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.