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108 Master's degrees offered by the university

Development and Socialisation in Childhood and Adolescence
The Master’s programme in Development and Socialisation in Childhood and Adolescence at Utrecht University focuses on both normal and abnormal development processes. Explicit attention is given to the study of interventions and risk factors in children’s and adolescent’s cognitive and social-emotional development and adjustment.
Conflict Studies and Human Rights
The Conflict Studies and Human Rights programme at Utrecht University challenges you to examine these types of urgent questions. The main aim is to turn you into an independent and critical conflict analyst. The international programme offers a hands-on and interdisciplinary approach to studying the causes, dynamics, and impacts of conflict and collective violence.
Applied Data Science
The Applied Data Science programme at Utrecht University offers a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree, designed to be completed in one year of full-time study. This intensive course equips students with the skills to apply data science techniques across various domains, fostering a comprehensive understanding of the discipline.
Youth Studies
In the Master’s programme Youth Studies at Utrecht University you will contribute to knowledge regarding youth issues. You will learn to develop ways to prevent or solve problems associated with adolescence and young adulthood, and enhance the quality youth care.
Economic Policy
What policies are required to achieve environmental sustainability - and who is responsible for taking action? If you are strongly motivated to contribute to just and effective decisions in economic policy-making, the Economic Policy programme at Utrecht University is the right choice for you.
Applied Ethics
The Applied Ethics programme at Utrecht University offers you an in-depth focus on the interaction between moral practice and ethical theory, allowing you to explore ethical theories in relation to actual practical dilemmas. At the end of your studies, you will possess a thorough theoretical background in ethics, including important methods and debates in applied ethics.

Innovation Sciences
In the Innovation Sciences programme at Utrecht University you will learn how to transform new ideas into marketable innovations, and how to manage and promote innovation processes within companies as well as in society at large.

Linguistics
The Linguistics programme at Utrecht University offers mandatory courses covering advanced theoretical linguistics (socio-phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, discourse), psycholinguistics (acquisition, processing) and research practice (including computational and experimental methodology).
Law and Technology in Europe
This thought-provoking Law and Technology in Europe programme at Utrecht University dives deep into the fascinating digital and societal developments that are raising new questions at the intersection of law, regulation and technology.

Legal Research
Universities and research centres, but also law firms, companies, courts, non-governmental organisations and public authorities all have a need for thorough, well-trained lawyers with excellent writing skills and a research-oriented mindset. The Legal Research programme at Utrecht University will help you to become the type of well-rounded lawyer that our changing society needs.
International Development Studies
The multidisciplinary Master's programme in International Development Studies at Utrecht University addresses current development challenges and engages with these highly important and urgent issues from people-centered, human perspective.

Sustainable Finance and Investments
Our Master’s programme Sustainable Finance and Investments at Utrecht University is an opportunity to study how fundamental finance knowledge and the principles of sustainability can be brought together in financial analyses and investments.

Social Challenges, Policies, and Interventions
Social Challenges, Policies, and Interventions at Utrecht University equips you to take on roles that involve building bridges between different stakeholders in a wide range of social challenges.
Social Challenges, Policies and Interventions
As a graduate of the Social Challenges, Policies and Interventions programme at Utrecht University, you will be able to study social problems from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. You will also have acquired the professional and academic skills necessary to design, implement, and evaluate social policies and interventions.

European Criminal Justice in a Global Context
The Master's in European Criminal Justice in a Global Context from Utrecht University ffers you an advanced academic teaching curriculum, linking national criminal justice systems to EU criminal law, EU constitutional law, EU administrative law and international law.
Cultural History and Heritage
In this Master in Cultural History and Heritage from Utrecht University you will study the culture of the past and the use of history in the present. In our programme you will learn to approach heritage issues from the perspective of cultural history and cultural theory. At the same time, it is our goal to turn our work in cultural history into products of public history.
Film and Television Cultures
In this Master’s programme in Film and Television Cultures at Utrecht University you will explore our dynamic media worlds and learn to think critically about changing industries, technologies and cultures.

Marine Sciences
Marine Sciences programme at Utrecht University will enable you to gain a broad understanding of marine systems, but also specialise in the physical, chemical, biological, and geological processes taking place in the ocean.

Sustainable Development
The Sustainable Development programme at Utrecht University is a two-year programme designed for students who want to contribute to developing solutions needed for a transformation to more sustainable and equitable societies.
Social and Health Psychology
The Master’s programme in Social and Health Psychology programme at Utrecht University investigates the social and health-related aspects of behavioural regulation.