540 Master's degrees in Social Sciences in Netherlands

Are Transatlantic relations in a crisis? Which values and interests connect or divide us? This interdisciplinary program pursues such questions, combining the historical and contemporary, the political and cultural, and the theoretical and practical.

Join the Communication, Cognition and Digital Culture - Linguistics Anthropology course at Tilburg University and become fully skilled to initiate and conduct your own high-quality research in the domain of communication sciences: an excellent preparation for a PhD or a career at a research agency.

Become an expert in managing a culturally diverse workforce within companies and organizations with the Management of Cultural Diversity program from Tilburg University. Research multilingualism, gender inequality, and intercultural competences. Develop policies solving important societal challenges such as equal opportunities, in educational, healthcare and the participation of refugees.

Join the Data Science and Society - Media course at Tilburg University and employ advanced text, image and video analysis with LLMs and other extraction techniques to generate insights about how people communicate or spread (dis-)information across a variety of mediums.

Contribute to fair and effective solutions to today’s environmental challenges. This specialisation examines who benefits from and who bears the costs of environmental change, and how governance can support just sustainability transformations.

Uncover the economic and political dimensions of global issues and power struggles behind policy choices. Learn to understand and explain the world from the perspectives of different stakeholders.

The Psychology of the Digital Media programme from Erasmus University Rotterdam focuses on the role of digital media in human thought and behaviour.

What is the nature of reality? What does it mean to be human? In the Research Master in Metaphysics and Philosophical Anthropology, you explore fundamental questions about reality and subjectivity in relation to contemporary existential challenges.

What does Mondrian tell us with his painting 'Victory Boogie Woogie' and how can we understand Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'? Who actually pays for art and culture? What role models does Hollywood provide us with? If these are questions that interest you, then you should definitely consider the Master’s in Arts and Culture. 

Explore how digitalization affects the communication between companies and their (potential) customers and other stakeholders, and the possibilities digital media offer for both internal and external communication. Become an all-round communication expert, or specialize in marketing-, internal- or corporate communication. This is a track of the MSc Communication and Information Sciences.

Geopolitics and persistence influences global injustices for present day human mobility worldwide. We pay attention to processes of colonial and post-colonial arrangements around borders, calling for a comprehensive epistemology of the impact which policy has on mobility perspectives, and it requires critical empirical approaches to these dynamics that take all actors, migrants included, on board.

By combining art historical, literary and other approaches, and by integrating academic research with practical challenges, Tourism and Heritage will train you as an academic expert and an innovative professional in the field of tourism and heritage.

In the Communication, Health and Life Sciences programme at the Wageningen University and Research, you will study complex social challenges around health or life sciences from various perspectives. 

Studying archaeology at Leiden University is all about studying societies and cultures from the past, trying to reconstruct them and bring them back to life. You will apply your interest in the past to make a meaningful contribution to resolving present-day societal issues, such as migration, globalisation and climate change.

In the MSc Communication and Information Sciences offered at Tilburg University you become an all-round communication expert by gaining insights from communication science, psychology, digital health, marketing, AI, and cognitive science. Follow a broad program or specialize in Business Communication and Digital Media, Communication and Cognition, Digital Health, or New Media Design.

The Governance of Migration and Diversity degree offered by Erasmus University Rotterdam integrates knowledge from various disciplines with a focus on how public and private organisations can respond to the opportunities offered and the challenges posed by migration and diversity.

Address economic problems and issues related to human behavior and behavior change. Become an economist trained to consider both the economics and the psychology of behavior and how it can be affected by policy and strategy. This is a track of the MSc Economics.

Learn the latest modelling techniques in economics, econometrics, statistics, and big data methods to solve actual challenges such as: choosing the best economic policy, designing labor markets and capital investments, regulating competition, and recommending strategic behavior for firms and consumers. Tilburg University offers the Econometrics and Mathematical Economics programme.

This exciting MSc, Master of Business Management - Digital Marketing and Communication  offered at Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences, challenges students to study at a high academic standard, combining case studies and research.

Are you intrigued by the complexity of human behaviour? Are you inspired to learn more about emotions, motivations, and the cognitive aspect that regulates human behaviour and decision-making? This Behavioural Science (Research) programme from Radboud University might be just for you!