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166 Master's degrees offered by the university

Public Health
The Master’s in Public Health programme is multi-disciplinary and trans-professional in both its content and the students it generally attracts. The MPH has been run successfully in Cardiff since 1989 and has a national and international reputation.

Education
Our Education (MSc) programme enables you to explore key challenges in education and gain insights into educational practices, policies, and organisations from across the world.

Welsh Government and Politics
Devolution has transformed Welsh politics and government. Join this innovative programme and explore the devolved institutions in their wider constitutional, political and policy contexts.

Journalism, Media and Communications
This course provides insight into how journalism and the media is changing in a globalised context – from journalism ethics to internet governance, from community media to global communications and from crisis reporting to the transformative potential of new technologies.

Data Intensive Physics
The MSc in Data-Intensive Physics has been designed to provide you with the skills and knowledge needed for a career in a range of areas including academic research in physics as well as technical, development and engineering positions in related scientific fields.

Engineering Management
Transition your engineering career to become an impactful management leader ready to deliver sustainable change.

Medical Education
Our programme will appeal to those wishing to explore the issues fundamental to effective health professions education in a dynamic, stimulating and supportive setting.

Advanced Clinical Practice
This programme is aimed at registered Nurses, Midwives and other healthcare practitioners, within the UK, who aspire to develop and work at an advanced level of clinical practice, particularly where there is a requirement for advanced clinical assessment and Independent/ Supplementary Prescribing skills.

Wireless and Microwave Communication Engineering
This degree aims to produce specialists with essential expertise in electronic and microwave engineering, and to develop an awareness of the rapidly growing application space for these technologies.

Wireless and Microwave Communication Engineering with a Research Year
An MSc course with an emphasis on research which also aims to provide you with the necessary advanced level knowledge and skills that will allow you to succeed in the rapidly growing wireless and microwave communication industry.

Psychiatry
The MSc in Psychiatry at Cardiff University aims to offer students from all backgrounds a well-rounded masters level postgraduate education.

Physics
Taught topics reflect our research expertise in Quantum Physics, Photonics, Theoretical and Computational analysis, Sensors and Materials as well as Astrophysics.

Social and Public Policy
Study how policy is designed around the world to meet human needs and increase wellbeing.

Creative and Cultural Industries
Embrace an entrepreneurial approach to the creative and cultural industries and familiarise yourself with key policies while building your understanding of debates changing and shaping the sector.
Independent Prescribing for Optometrists
Our innovative, clinically focussed 1 year programme prepares optometrists to practise as independent prescribers and to meet the standards set by the General Optical Council for specialist entry on to the GOC register.

Environmental Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction
Navigate the complex interplay of nature and society to mitigate environmental risks and shape a resilient future.

Structural Engineering
The creation of modern buildings is a complex operation requiring professional skills from many disciplines. This course offers advanced training in the analysis, design and construction of structures in a variety of materials.

Spatial Planning and Development
The MSc Spatial Planning and Development aims to put you on the road to being a good planner.

Cancer Biology and Therapeutics
Graduates from this course will have a breadth and depth of cancer-focused training that will make them credible candidates to start or further a career within the health sector or research establishments.

Implantology
Explore the science and clinical practice of implantology, and develop the clinical skills needed to perform the full spectrum of contemporary implant practice, including all forms of bone and soft-tissue grafting.