57 Master's in Sound Engineering in Europe

If you’re new to the field or already working in industry, this Sound Design programme from Leeds Beckett University will foster your talent and develop your skills in planning, creation and manipulation of audio soundtracks.

Sound Design from Edinburgh Napier University is made up of three parts: taught classes, work-based learning, and a research project.

The Sound Design and Audiovisual Practice programme of the University of Glasgow provides advanced training in creative practice with sound and audiovisual technologies. The programme offers topics relevant to practicing musicians, artists, and the creative industries, such as sound shaping and design, audiovisual composition, field recording, creative and experimental approaches to technology.

Bournemouth University, the first UK university to offer the Sound Design programme, providing a blend of practical and theoretical learning to develop the creative, technical and collaborative skills you need to work professionally in the film, TV, games and VR industries. 

The Filmmaking (Sound Recording, Post-Production & Design) programme, offered by Goldsmiths, University of London, is housed in a new purpose-built media facility equipped with state-of-the-art teaching spaces including a film studio for sound shooting.

The major in Computer, Communication and Information Sciences - Acoustics and Audio Technology at Aalto University equips students with a fundamental understanding of human hearing, audio perception, and physics of sound. The skills they acquire enable, for example, reducing noise pollution, planning harmonic environments and designing coherent sound experiences.

The Master's in Acoustics from Ecole Centrale de Lyon provides training in a wide range of acoustic fields, including perception, medical ultrasound, aeroacoustics, air transport, vibroacoustics, land transport and construction.

The master's degree in Acoustics and Musicology at Aix-Marseille University enables students to acquire expertise in their specialty (either engineering and sound design or musicology and creation).

Nottingham Trent University proudly presents the Sound Engineering and Audio Production MS, an innovative program designed to cultivate the skills and expertise of aspiring audio professionals. This MS offers a comprehensive curriculum covering advanced topics in sound engineering, audio production, and music technology.

Paying due attention to the sustainability of the planned solutions, in setting up the new departmental organizational model, it was intended to give greater weight to the integration of research with teaching, identifying short, medium and long-term objectives. Learn more with Telecommunications engineering from University of L´Aquila.

The Music Production, Technology, and Innovation program from Berklee College of Music (Valencia Campus) explores cutting-edge developments and forward thinking techniques in music and beyond. While strengthening sophisticated skills on the most current digital tools, students are challenged to disrupt the status quo while inventing the future of music.

Discover ReSound, an innovative Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Programme that reimagines the role of sound in culture, society, and the creative industries. This two-year, four-semester journey goes beyond the screen, elevating sound as a fully-fledged discipline and a starting point for exploring its profound connection to image, space, and experience. *This programme is subject to validation*

The Sound in New Media from Aalto University programme combines art, design and media driven aspects of sound, covering a wide range of disciplines from concept design to live performance and from storytelling to programming. Teaching is fully in English, and students can write their Master's thesis in Finnish, Swedish or English.

The Music, Communication and Technology programme of the University of Oslo will give you the personal skills and technical tools required to work out solutions to contemporary societal challenges in international and interdisciplinary teams.

Students of the Sound Design study track in the Interaction, Media and Sound Design Master’s degree program at FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences develop knowledge of sound design, media preparation and technical processing.

The Sound for the Moving Image at The Glasgow School of Art offers the opportunity for postgraduate students to engage with the craft and creative practice of sound production applied to film, animation, television, new media, electronic games and visual art, as well as equipping students with the tools required to develop a research project within this field. 

Do you want to dive deep into innovative and creative ways to work with music? Would you like to explore cutting edge music production? While simultaneously developing your listening skills to know exactly which tools to use to get the sound you want? Then you should apply for the Creative Music Technology programme at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)!

The Acoustics program from INSA Lyon is a two-year graduate program offered by the Université de Lyon, in the framework of the Centre Lyonnais d'Acoustique, a partnership between the main research teams working in acoustics in Lyon.

The Industry Master of Engineering Acoustics programme at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) covers a wide range of topics within acoustics—including the fundamentals of sound propagation, advanced measurement techniques, and understanding and modelling of the human hearing system.

Digital Arts (Sound Art and Design) from University of Malta promotes practice-based research in art and design.