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Safety Engineering
The Master in Safety Engineering from KU Leuven will prepare you to improve and realise safety in many different areas. The programme trains you in prevention policy and safety management systems, the safety of products, processes, and installations, qualitative risk analysis techniques, and fire and explosion safety.

Deglutology
This interdisciplinary Deglutology programme from KU Leuven will focus on a theoretical in-depth, research-based approach to train you as a competent professional in the science of deglutition. You will learn a variety of skills, gain hands-on experience, and develop tools used extensively in clinical, diagnostic, and therapeutic settings related to this expanding field.

Social and Cultural Anthropology
Anthropology studies the socializing, meaning-making and world-building practices of humans in different places, networks and settings, around the world. Social and cultural anthropologists study social processes from the perspectives of the actors involved. Anthropologists actively engage and theorize the differences and similarities between people across the globe.

Artificial Intelligence
What is the true nature of intelligence? Is it simply learning processes, cognition models, natural language representation and reasoning? Or is it more? The Master of Artificial Intelligence programme trains a wide variety of students in all areas of knowledge-based technology and the wider application of that technology across multiple fields, including in the development of intelligent robots.

Business and Information Systems Engineering
The Master of Business and Information Systems Engineering at KU Leuven prepares you in both business management as well as information systems within an international context. In our modern society no organisation can function without information systems.

Mechanical Engineering
The Master of Mechanical Engineering programme from KU Leuven integrates almost all disciplines of technology. Any device or product used in modern, everyday life is the result of an ongoing synergy between different basic techniques bringing together different technical disciplines.

Erasmus Mundus Master of Science in Public Sector Innovation and eGovernance
This unique, interuniversity and interdisciplinary Erasmus Mundus Master of Science in Public Sector Innovation and eGovernance programme from KU Leuven empowers students to become specialists that combine competencies on public administration and public management with expertise on information systems and eGovernance.

Communication Sciences - Digital Media and Society
From virtual worlds, social media and the use of AI technology to online gaming – digital media re-shape society in various domains and inform the way individual people live, think and act. The international Master of Communication Sciences: Digital Media and Society provides a one-year master programme in which you will study the nature, effect and meaning of digital media.

Economics
The Master of Science in Economics at KU Leuven is a one-year Master programme, oriented towards students with broad interests in social and scientific matters who are capable of critical and creative thinking.

Business Economics
The Master of Science in Business Economics at KU Leuven emphasizes the acquisition of fundamental knowledge and skills related to the corporate world, international business, strategy and innovation, entrepreneurship, financial economics and marketing and accounting and financial management.

Physics
Explore, understand, and model physical reality using the most advanced mathematical, computational, experimental and observational techniques available. The Master of Physics thoroughly equips students with insight into the current status of physics research. Our physicists go on to rewrite our understanding of not only the natural world but also its interaction with society and industry.

Bioscience Engineering - Human Health Engineering
This master's degree will turn you into an integrator who is capable of translating physiological and psychological knowledge into advanced technological solutions for monitoring and improving human health. You end up working in health-related domains (sports, well-being, rehabilitation, prevention, ergonomics, safety, etc.)

Architecture
The multicultural dimension of this English-taught master's degree in Architecture from KU Leuven prepares you extra for an international career as an architect or researcher. Just like in the Dutch master's programme, the programme is composed of design and theoretical courses. In this master's program you also choose studios and optional course units from a varied cross-campus offering.

Master of Laws (LLM)
The Master of Laws (LLM) from KU Leuven is a world-renowned programme that provides an advanced focus on international and European law, and is taught by top specialists in their fields.
EIT KIC Dual Degree Tracks in Sustainable Materials Engineering
This EIT KIC Dual Degree Tracks in Sustainable Materials Engineering MSc programme from KU Leuven stimulates innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership and focus on circular (eco)design.

Advanced Studies in European Policies and Public Administration
This programme develops a course that prepares students for careers in governments, international bodies and research. With an explicit focus on European countries and the European Union, and the comparative aspect of research, MEPP is a rigorous and valuable course for individuals interested in the EU and Europe.

Biomedical Sciences
Do you dream of being on the frontline of the battle for better understanding of human health and diseases, leading to better prevention and treatment options? The Master will truly immerse you in scientific biomedical research. By doing scientific research in a domestic or foreign laboratory you will gain thorough know-how, strengthen your scientific skills and learn the newest scientific methods

Erasmus Mundus Master of Science in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Important properties of materials, such as the electrical, optical, thermal and mechanical properties, are determined by the way molecules and atoms assemble on the nanoscale into larger structures. Nanotechnology is the application of nanoscience leading to the use of new nanomaterials and nanosize components in useful products.

European Social Security
This one-year advanced master's European Social Security programme from KU Leuven deals with social security and social protection from a legal, economic, sociological, administrative and philosophical perspective. In addition to being multidisciplinary, the curriculum contains a strong comparative and multinational component focusing on the provision of social protection rights across Europe.

Chemical Engineering
The Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from KU Leuven is more than just chemistry: it is the application of chemical engineering principles to the development of technical products and to the design, control, and improvement of industrial processes.