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36 Master's degrees offered by the university

Geographical Information Management and Applications (GIMA)
Geographical Information Management and Applications (GIMA) from Utrecht University is a two-year joint-degree Master of Science programme, available in both part-time and full-time modes.
History of Politics and Society
The History of Politics and Society programme at Utrecht University provides you with a thorough understanding of the historical roots of the most important political and societal issues that politicians, journalists and policy makers are concerned with today.
Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
The internship in the broad field of a clinical child and adolescent psychology is therefore an important part of our Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology programme at Utrecht University.
Global Criminology
The Global Criminology programme at Utrecht University is a one-year Master’s programme that equips students with the knowledge, skills, and understanding required to work with local and global crime issues, crime policies and crime control strategies.
Migration, Ethnic Relations and Multiculturalism
The Master's programme in Migration, Ethnic Relations and Multiculturalism at Utrecht University addresses these topics from the assumption that systematic understanding of the precursors and processes of migration and integration is essential for the development of adequate policies and interventions in pluralistic societies.
Social, Health and Organisational Psychology
Unhealthy eating habits. Workplace bullying. Although a wide range of issues, the same rule applies to all of them: it comes down to the way in which people affect each other's behaviour. In the Social, Health and Organisational Psychology programme at Utrecht University, you study human behaviour and behaviour change in a social, health, or organisational context.
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.

Gender Studies (Research)
Gender Studies (Research) programme at Utrecht University combines a thorough grounding in the historiography and contemporary state of Gender Studies as a discipline with intensive training in the critical practice of cultural theories and epistemologies from feminist, postcolonial, critical race, and queer perspectives.
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.
Neuroscience and Cognition
Are you interested in doing research to better understand normal and pathological brain function? Do you want to become a specialist in the field of neurosciences? The Neuroscience and Cognition programme at Utrecht University offers you the opportunity to investigate numerous areas of brain functioning that make the neuroscience and cognition field uniquely intriguing and challenging.

Cultural Antropology - Sustainable Citizenship
This Master’s programme in Cultural Antropology - Sustainable Citizenship at Utrecht University departs from an integrated understanding.
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.
Intercultural Communication
The Intercultural Communication programme at Utrecht University teaches you how to approach and facilitate linguistic and cultural diversity in various international contexts.

Economics and Data Analysis
Economics and Data Analysis at Utrecht University provides you with the solid theoretical foundation in microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics, necessary for applied quantitative data analysis.
Law and Economics
The Master’s programme in Law and Economics at Utrecht University prepares you for addressing these challenges in present or future markets.
Sociology - Contemporary Social Problems
What is the “right” amount of policing? Can we sustain our healthcare system with a shrinking, aeging population? Under which conditions is it acceptable to enact censorship on social media? These are the type of questions we will tackle in the Sociology - Contemporary Social Problems programme at Utrecht University.

Youth, Education and Society
The Youth, Education and Society programme at Utrecht University is the only Master’s programme in the Netherlands that specifically focuses on innovating pedagogical policy and practice, both nationally and internationally.
Applied Cognitive Psychology
With the Master’s programme Applied Cognitive Psychology at Utrecht University, you will learn to apply knowledge of cognition and behaviour to situations and problems that occur in daily life.
Cultural History and Heritage
The Master's programme Cultural History and Heritage at Graduate School of Humanities is a cross-fertilisation of theory and practice, of pioneering cultural-historical research and accessible public history, of academic knowledge and engagement with today’s societal challenges.
Multidisciplinary Economics
In the MSc in Multidisciplinary Economics at Utrecht University, you learn to cross the borders of economics into other scientific disciplines – a real strength of the Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.) - in order to provide sound research and applicable solutions to real-world problems, now and in the future.