Tinbergen Institute's Research Master Business Data Science offers a broad range of elective short courses for externals.
All Courses for PhD Students and External Participants
Courses are organized by subject area, and each is labeled as either a core or field course.
Courses take place in either Amsterdam or Rotterdam, or in both locations.
View the academic calendar for 2025-2026.
| Course | Type | Period |
| Decision Theory for Business | Core | 1 |
| AI@Work | Field | 1 |
| Marketing Science | Field | 1 |
| Social Network Analysis | Field | 1 |
| Social Media Data Analytics | Field | 2 |
| Course | Type | Periode |
| Simulation Analysis & Optimization | Core | 4 |
| Decomposition Methods | Field | 1 |
| Heuristic Optimization Methods | Field | 1 |
| Integer Linear Programming | Field | 5 |
| Course | Type | Period |
| Asset Pricing | Core | 3 |
| Corporate Finance Theory | Core | 4 |
| Risk and Rationality | Field | 1 |
| Banking | Field | 1 |
| Continuous Time Asset Pricing | Field | 1 |
| Dynamic Corporate Finance | Field | 1 |
| Behavioral Finance | Field | 3 |
| Sustainable Finance | Field | 4 |
| Empirical Asset Pricing | Field | 5 |
| Empirical Corporate Finance | Field | 5 |
| Course | Type | Period |
| Machine Learning 1 | Core | 2 |
| Advanced Machine Learning | Core | 2 |
| Machine Learning 2 | Core | 3 |
| Reinforcement Learning | Core | 3 |
| Deep Learning | Core | 4 |
| Natural Language Processing | Core | 5 |
| Parallel Computing and Big data | Field | 2 |
| Course | Type | Period |
| Fundamental Mathematics | Core | 1 |
| Advanced Mathematics | Core | 1 |
| Statistics | Core | 1 |
| Asymptotic Statistics | Core | 1 |
| Econometrics I | Core | 2 |
| Advanced Econometrics I | Core | 2 |
| Econometrics II | Core | 3 |
| Advanced Econometrics II | Core | 3 |
| Econometrics III | Core | 4 |
| Advanced Econometrics III | Core | 4 |
| Applied Macroeconometrics | Field | 1 |
| Applied Microeconometrics | Field | 1 |
| Advanced Microeconometrics | Field | 2 |
| Econometrics of Networks | Field | 2 |
| Bayesian Econometrics | Field | 2 |
| Forecasting Methods | Field | 3 |
| Advanced Time Series Econometrics | Field | 3 |
| Market and Systemic Risk Management | Field | 5 |
| Course | Type | Period |
| TI Econometrics Lectures 2026 | Field | 5 |
| TI Economics Lectures 2026 | Field | 5 |
| Course | Type | Period |
| Scientific Integrity (contd. Block II and III) | Core | 2 & 3 |
| Academic Writing (contd. Block II and III) | Core | 2 & 3 |
| Presenting in Academia (contd. Blocks IV-V) | Core | 4 & 5 |
The Course Catalogue on the website of Erasmus University Rotterdam provides information on course description, study materials, entrance requirements, and period course taking place.