MSc in Business Innovation

The Stockholm School of Economics runs its MSc in Business Innovation over two years and 120 ECTS, entirely in English, with an August start. The programme was previously titled MSc in Business and Management and was renamed — SSE's own alumni pages still refer to graduates of the earlier name — so if you are comparing older rankings or agent listings, treat the two as the same degree.

The focus is on how established firms and new ventures actually create and capture value from innovation: business-model design, strategy under uncertainty, organisational change, digital transformation, brand and marketing innovation, sustainability-driven business models, and entrepreneurship. Teaching is case- and project-based, with company collaborations built into courses, and the intake is deliberately small — around 75 places, with 93 students in the 2025 cohort — so seminars are worked rather than lectured.

SSE sits outside Sweden's national admissions system. It does not use universityadmissions.se; applications go through SSE's own portal in two rounds, an early round closing 15 November and a final round closing 15 January, with decisions by 15 March. There is no application fee, which is unusual and worth knowing. Tuition for non-EU students is SEK 360,000 for the full two years — SEK 180,000 a year, about LKR 5.76 million — billed per semester.

The admission bar has a component many Sri Lankan applicants overlook: SSE requires a GMAT Focus Edition score of at least 555 (or 600 on the previous format), or a GRE Quantitative score of at least 155. That test needs booking months ahead of the January deadline. Academically the programme accepts a Bachelor's in any field provided it carries at least 30 ECTS in business administration, so this is a genuine route for engineers, economists and science graduates as well as business graduates.