Degree and Career Perspectives

The IMFSE degree

Once you have obtained all 120 ECTS credits and have completed the IMFSE programme, you have become a Fire Safety Engineer! You will receive 1 joint degree certificate, signed by the Full Partners. The holder of an IMFSE degree can use the title of Master of Science (MSc).

The academic degrees of our joint master degree are "International Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering" and "Teknologie masterexamen Huvudområde: Brandteknik".

Career Perspectives after graduation

A Fire Protection Engineer fulfills a broad range of duties, in various ways related to fire. This can range from designing fire protection for a space station, to protecting treasures such as the U.S. Constitution, to safely securing the occupants of a high-rise building from fire hazards. Fire Safety Engineers are in great demand by corporations, educational institutions, consulting firms and government bodies around the world. An IMFSE master degree could also make you eligible for a PhD position.

92,5% of our alumni say that they had the feeling that the IMFSE programme prepared them (very) well for a job and 87,8% of our alumni reported that they implement a lot of their IMFSE knowledge and skills (very) often in their job. 72,6% of our alumni explicitly mentioned that their IMFSE degree has impacted their level of salary in a positive way.
(According to our alumni survey in January 2022)

Want to find out more about life after IMFSE? We share news from our alumni on our LinkedIn page.

 
“I consider the IMFSE experience as one of the most amazing and enriching experience of my life. I have learned more than I could imagine, not just about fire protection engineering, about friendship and culture too. I am very grateful to have had this opportunity.”
 
 

“The programme helped me to find a job after finishing my studies and I was able to start using my knowledge obtained in IMFSE straight away.”

 
 

“Top notch education, awesome life experience. Fun all around.”

 
 

“Going for the IMFSE program was one of the best decisions I ever made. The program did not only give me a strong foundation in fire safety engineering, but it also gave me the opportunity to develop my international and interpersonal skills, and also gave me the flexibility I needed to be able to compete in any engineering industry today since fire protection experts are of great demand these days.”