Continuing her studies at the University of Ljubljana, she went on to obtain a master's degree in management at the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Before entering politics, she served for six years as head of the Directorate for the State Budget at the Ministry of Finance.

In March 2013, an anonymous person criticized Bratušek because she had not cited a source on one page of her master's thesis.

[6] Her work has 88 pages with 34 listed sources, but journalists only counted 11 that had been cited; among them were also internal documents of the company Javni gospodarski zavod Brdo, where she was member and later chair of the management board.

[9] The investigating commission concluded that "Bratušek in her master's thesis had used works of other authors contrary to current citation methods, but based on critically evaluation of collected material and sources it can not be expertly and scientifically established that the thesis is not a result of her work.

The center-right Slovenian Democratic Party responded by tweeting about "her government lasting no longer than her skirt's length".

Gregor Virant welcomed the outcome of the vote, stating that it would enable Slovenia to move forward.

[citation needed] In seeking to avoid a financial bailout her government won a vote of confidence by 50 to 31 on 15 November.