34 Master's degrees in Media Studies & Mass Media in Netherlands

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. 

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.

During the one-year New Media and Digital Culture programme at Utrecht University, you will delve into the many aspects of what it means to live in an age of new media. 

The Media, Art and Performance Studies programme at the Utrecht University is an interdisciplinary and internationally oriented research-based programme which offers an advanced training in academic research skills appropriate for today's highly dynamic and interdisciplinary field of media, visual arts and performance.

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.

In the Executive Media Innovation (Online) programme at Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas) is designed for ambitious professionals who want to lead change in the dynamic world of digital and interactive media. 

If you're interested in a critical approach to the main contemporary forms of power, from capitalism to whiteness, and from patriarchy to coloniality, this master's programme Power, Publics and Engagement from Erasmus University Rotterdam is for you.

Learn to deal with broader, intercultural and international communication challenges with this International Communication Management course from The Hague University of Applied Sciences.

In this Arts and Culture - Comparative Arts and Media Studies programme from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam you will gain media literacy skills to historically contextualise a fast-paced audiovisual culture.

The Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image (Media Studies) programme of University of Amsterdam invites students to critically engage with current practices of collecting and selecting, preserving and restoring, making accessible, presenting and curating moving images and sound.

The one-and-a-half-year Archival and Information Studies (Media Studies) programme of the University of Amsterdam focuses on contemporary archival theory and practice, training students in the science and craft of recordkeeping, and providing insight into the archives of the past and future.

The master in Literature in Society. Europe and Beyond offers specialised knowledge on the role and impact of literature in society. Novels, poetry, theatre and new literary media from both 'high’ and ‘popular’ culture reflect social issues but also shape them.

In this Media, Culture and Society programme from Erasmus University Rotterdam, you will dive into the production, reception and content of various media as well as their social and cultural meanings and uses.

Why do some posts go viral on social media and others do not? How can social media analysis be used in business and policy decisions? This Social Media and Society programme at University of Groningen offers a critical exploration of social media within contemporary networked societies and trains students to work with (big) data in a responsible way. 

The Media Design program at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, part of the Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design, is an intensive project-based research degree that will equip you to create a distinctive voice as an artist/designer in the contemporary media landscape.

In a world where the transformation of media culture has a tremendous impact on the media environment as well as our culture, politics and everyday life, it is vital that we thoroughly understand and evaluate these ongoing transformations. Learn more with the Media Studies programme of the University of Amsterdam.

The two-year Journalism, Media and Globalisation programme of the University of Amsterdam provides aspiring and practicing journalists with a more critical understanding of their profession, to create more academically sound, critical, and globally minded media professionals. 

The Film Studies (Media Studies) programme of the University of Amsterdam approaches the study of film as a multi-faceted phenomenon, and trains students to critically and effectively engage with important shifts in film and cinema culture. 

The Non Linear Narrative course, offered by the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague  is a two-year master’s programme that merges investigative methods of journalism and forensics with processing technologies of computer science and visual arts into a contemporary progressive design approach: non-linear storytelling.

The master's specialisation Economic and Consumer Psychology makes you an expert in the field of the psychological determinants of economic and consumer decision making (e.g., why people buy certain products or services). The Leiden programme in Economic and Consumer Psychology has a core curriculum with a focus on the integration of psychological and economic theories and practice.