181 Master's degrees in Humanities in Netherlands

Culture in the Digital Era that examines how culture, society, and everyday life are shaped by digitalization, mediatization, and shifting boundaries between public and private spheres. This Master's trains you to analyze how digital technologies, platforms, and algorithms influence everyday cultural expressions, communication, identity, and creativity. This is a track of MA Culture Studies.

In the Comparative Literary Studies programme at Utrecht University is designed for students with strong analytical skills and a desire to deepen their understanding of literature as a global, multilingual, and politically engaged practice.

The Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies programme at Utrecht University focuses on interdisciplinary study of the material, social, and intellectual developments in Europe (including the Mediterranean region) from Antiquity through the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

Tilburg University's Children's Literature, Media and Cultural Entrepreneurship (Multiple degree) is a two-year Erasmus Mundus International Master’s program initiated and taught by a consortium of five universities. With this program you deepen your knowledge of children’s literature, media and culture from an international perspective and a multidisciplinary approach. 

The Speech Technology programme at University of Groningen provides production-level skills in neural speech recognition, voice synthesis, and machine learning deployment, combined with a strong foundation in linguistics. 

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.

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.

The Philosophy programme at Utrecht University integrates a strong foundation in the core themes and texts of philosophy with extensive opportunities and flexibility for specialisation. 

The aim of the Master’s the History and Philosophy of Science at Utrecht University is to offer you a thorough training in the history and/or philosophy or foundations of the sciences and humanities. You'll learn to develop and research historical or philosophical research questions.

In this Master's specialisation, you learn to become a competent linguist who has an understanding of language variation and multilingualism, two central and interrelated topics within linguistics.

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.

The Educational Sciences - Learning in Interaction programme at Utrecht University is a small-scale two-year programme, designed to prepare you for a career in research (for example as a PhD candidate), or for work in education policy and consultancy.

The Religious Studies course at Utrecht University is a challenging, research-oriented programme that prepares you for participation in international research and for a career in domains where religious diversity and difference are significant factors - in culture, art, and politics.

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.

This Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies (Research) programme from Radboud University combines joint interdisciplinary training with disciplinary courses in one of the specialisations: Historical Studies, Literary Studies, or Art and Visual Culture. 

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.

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). 

The international political stage is much like a game of chess between multiple players. During the course of the International Relations in Historical Perspective programme at Utrecht University you will gain a greater understanding of the parties involved and of their political agendas and also prepare yourself for a future as a participant in the game of global politics.

In the Literature Today programme at Utrecht University, you will learn to identify and critically evaluate the most recent national and international developments in literature, and to situate these from a historical perspective. You will be equipped with the tools to identify and explain the quality of literary works in times of increasing commercialisation.

The Modern and Contemporary History programme at Utrecht University offers you research-based training in history as an academic discipline. We teach you how to do research, and we challenge you to develop your own ideas on topics of your choice.