Undergraduate courses

Psychology & Business Management Minor

(available from August 2025)

What is Psychology & Business Management?

Understanding the relationship between human behaviour, business strategies, and technological design is crucial for engineers and designers. The Minor in Psychology and Business Management (PBM) at SUTD is tailored to meet this need by offering key principles of psychology and business management in the context of the university’s design-focused curriculum.

This minor equips students with the knowledge to make connections between the complex social, cultural, economic, and psychological forces that influence AI and technology development. With a dual discipline approach, the minor hopes to broaden a student’s ability to make significant contributions to the fields of engineering and technology design and create impactful and responsible innovations.

The PBM Mission

To educate future technologists, designers and engineers who wish to:

• combine the learning from psychology and business management and respond critically, creatively, and constructively to the global workplace.
• reflect on, analyse, and anticipate the ways in which human behaviour and management decisions will benefit, displace, or otherwise impact the lives of individuals, societies, and the environment.
• understand how scientific insights and methodological toolkits from psychology, management, and other behavioural sciences can inform novel approaches to human-centred engineering and design, including AI applications.

Full course details will be available from May 2025.