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24 Master's degrees offered by the university
Global History
The aim of the Global History programme of the University of Bayreuth is to enable students to recognize and analyse complex social, political, cultural and economic phenomena of the present in their global and historical contexts. This Master’s course is taught in English.
Development Studies
Processes of development, change, and globalization in Latin America, Asia, and Africa are playing an increasingly important global role in this day and age. Learn more with this program in Development Studies from University of Bayreuth.
Environment, Climate Change and Health
The Environment, Climate Change and Health programme of the University of Bayreuth provides expertise and practical experience in the field of environmental systems science from an explicitly interdisciplinary perspective.
Biofabrication
The internationally oriented Biofabrication programme of the University of Bayreuth is interdisciplinary in nature, representing an engineering curriculum at the intersection of technology, chemistry, materials science, biology, and medicine.
Natural Products and Drug Chemistry
The Natural and Active Compound Chemistry degree at University of Bayreuth provides students with interdisciplinary skills that enable them to advance innovative developments in these areas. The synthesis and analysis of natural and active substances as well as the molecular basis of their interaction with biological systems are therefore at the center of the program.
Global Food, Nutrition and Health
The Global Food, Nutrition and Health programme of the University of Bayreuth directly aims to teach interdisciplinary skills to address these and similar issues and questions as well as to find answers and solutions to these global challenges.
Food System Sciences
The Food System Sciences Master’s degree course at the University of Bayreuth offers an interdisciplinary programme integrating different aspects of the food system, allowing students to gain insights into the interfaces between Food Chemistry, Human Physiology, Food Law, and the Bioeconomy.
Global Change Ecology
The Global Change Ecology programme of University of Bayreuth is devoted to understanding and analysing the most important and consequential environmental concern of the 21st Century: Global change.
Experimental Geosciences
The Experimental Geosciences programme of University of Bayreuth pursues training and research in one of the central areas in modern Earth Sciences: the experimental simulation of processes occurring in the Earth. This includes the characterization of physical and chemical properties of Earth materials to advance our understanding of such properties.
History and Economics
The History and Economics programme of the University of Bayreuth offers you an interdisciplinary education in history and economics that is currently one-of-a-kind in Germany. This unique combination leads to a career-qualifying degree that enables graduates to start a career in the private sector or continue their postgraduate education.
Intercultural Anglophone Studies
The Intercultural Anglophone Studies programme of University of Bayreuth is an innovative, research-oriented master’s programme in English and American Studies. It enables in-depth and theoretically informed study of the literatures and cultures of the English-speaking world, and of linguistic phenomena of English in its varieties.
Battery Materials and Technology
Access to sustainable and renewable energy represents one of the great challenges in the 21st century. Therefore, electrochemical energy storage, in particular batteries, will be an essential tool for the future. Learn more with this program in Battery Materials and Technology from University of Bayreuth.
Materials Chemistry and Catalysis
New materials and catalytic converters are driving innovation in an increasing number of areas in industry, research, and technology. The Materials Chemistry and Catalysis degree at University of Bayreuth enables students to participate successfully in shaping this development with a high level of professional competence
Polymer Science
The master's programme Polymer Science at University of Bayreuth is geared towards students who have an interest in natural and material science issues, want to work on a future-oriented class of materials and want to hold a responsible position in companies, research institutes or universities.
Computer Science
The University of Bayreuth’s Department of Computer Science offers two master’s programmes: “Computer Science” and “Applied Computer Science”. The Computer Science programme of the University of Bayreuth takes an international approach, and practical project work plays an especially important role.
Social and Cultural Anthropology
The M.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology is a research-focused master’s program which offers students an advanced orientation in socio-cultural anthropology and guides them through an ethnographic research project. Learn more with this program in Social and Cultural Anthropology from University of Bayreuth.
Food Quality and Safety
The Food Quality and Safety programme of the University of Bayreuth directly aims to teach interdisciplinary skills to address these and similar issues and questions as well as to find answers and solutions to these global challenges.

Religion and Global Futures
This Religion and Global Futures programme from University of Bayreuth will equip you with knowledge and skills that enable you to understand contemporary and emerging forms of religion, both from a global perspective and in relation to questions of global futures.
Environmental Geography
The Environmental Geography programme of the University of Bayreuth provides expertise and practical experience in the field of environmental systems science from an explicitly interdisciplinary perspective.
African Verbal and Visual Arts
The English-taught African Verbal and Visual Arts programme of University of Bayreuth builds on knowledge relating to the diversity and creativity in languages, literatures, arts, and media in Africa. The interdisciplinary orientation and various subject combinations make the programme one-of-a-kind.