Quality Management, Online

The Master's Degree Programme in Quality Management is part of Turku University of Applied Sciences' (Turku UAS) Master School. Turku UAS Master School brings together all Master's degree programmes at Turku UAS in the fields of Business, Culture, Healthcare and Social Services, and Technology. It gives the students an excellent chance to create new multidisciplinary networks with other experts both in Finland and globally. The School of Professional Excellence focuses on developing the skills and competences needed as a specialist in the selected discipline whereas the School of Leadership Excellence provides the students a possibility to study and acquire skills and competencies needed as a business leader and manager.The Quality Management programme focuses on developing the necessary abilities for planning, developing and managing quality system processes, and continuous improvement and creative problem solving for the organization's needs in the industry and different organizations.The Master's degree programme in Quality Management is a programme strongly connected to the world of work (60 credits), which gives students the opportunity to grow into experts in the field of quality and continuous improvement. The aim of the studies is to develop and deepen the student's professional skills and competencies in a quality framework. The studies strongly support the student’s development into demanding expert and supervisor jobs.In the Quality Management programme, the study assignments as well as the master's thesis are related to student's work. Therefore, the employer organization will also benefit from the studies and will have a great opportunity to develop the quality management tools and methods in the organization.The Master's degree is composed of advanced professional studies, optional studies and thesis work. Part of the mandatory core competence studies are common for all Master School programmes and part are specific for the Quality Management programme. Students have a chance to affect the content of their studies. Optional studies, which are intended to complement a student's skills in Quality Management, can be taken freely from the other Turku UAS’ Master's programmes or from the Masters' programmes of other universities. In most cases, the thesis work is done as a working life development project.The themes of quality management studies include principles of quality management in an industry, different quality tools,  lean principles and risk management in practical consideration. The education  also includes research and development method studies.