24 Master's degrees in British Studies in Germany

English Studies - Literature, Language, Culture from Freie Universität Berlin moves beyond the traditional disciplinary segregation within English studies and seeks to combine literature, linguistics, and cultural studies of the English-speaking world except North America. 

The English and American (Literary and Cultural) Studies MA course offered at the University of Paderborn explores the literature and cultures of English-speaking regions and is combined with language training and job-related education as well as mandatory practical experiences.

If you love literature, this English Literatures and Literary Theory programme from University of Freiburg is the ideal course for you. You will get to read a large number of exciting novels, short stories, plays, poems, essays and letters besides looking at films and seeing performances of great drama on stage or on DVD. 

Components of the Master of Arts in English and American Studies at Friedrich Schiller University Jena include the English language, its description and analysis in the context of current research, and the academic study of anglophone literatures and cultures from the Middle Ages to the present. 

The English Literatures and Cultures program at University of Bonn covers the literatures and cultures of Great Britain and the post-colonial world.

The MA in British, American and Postcolonial Studies is coordinated by the English Department at University of Münster. It offers graduate students the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the methods and theories of literary and cultural studies, linguistics, and book studies through course work and through active, independent research. 

In Saarland University’s American Studies, British Studies, English Linguistics course, students acquire a variety of scientific and key cultural competencies. Graduates of the course are able to take part in the scientific dialogue at home and abroad at a high level.

This British and American Cultures - Texts and Media MA programme from University of Hamburg focuses on the literature and culture of Great Britain and the United States of America. It takes an innovative approach to seminal works, theories, and methodologies in British and American studies. 

This English Literature and Culture course offered by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz offers a program oriented to literature and cultural studies, which teaches advanced knowledge of the diverse manifestations of British society in literary, historical, political and cultural contexts. 

The objective of the English language studies component of this degree programme from Heidelberg University is to expand and strengthen the fundamental methodological and specialised knowledge that has been acquired as part of a Bachelor’s degree in English Studies as well as to provide practice in research-based learning.  

This Cognitive, Digital and Empirical English Studies Master's program, taught in English from RWTH Aachen University , is an innovative interdisciplinary course of study linked to this current research activity in the humanities, cognitive, and technical sciences.

The academic concept of the MA in Global British Studies at Leipzig University follows the structure of the new European approach to philology, which relies on the three individual subject areas of linguistics, literature and cultural studies, as well as on interdisciplinary cooperation between these fields.

The English Studies programme from Heidelberg University is dedicated to the investigation of the English language, literature and culture in their various present-day forms and in their historical development.

The Anglophone Literatures, Cultures an Media program offered by Goethe University Frankfurt is focused on literature, cultural, and media studies and is taught entirely in English.

This English Literatures and Cultures program from University of Tübingen delves into the rich tradition of English literature in Great Britain, as well as the newer literatures that have emerged in English across the globe. 

English-Speaking Cultures - Language, Text, Media from University of Bremen  is a programme for students with a background in English Studies, North American Studies, English Linguistics, Comparative Studies (with a focus on English Linguistics or Literatures and Cultures in English). 

Students on the English Studies programme at Leibniz University Hannover acquire the specialist and teaching skills required to work successfully as a grammar school teacher.

The program in English Studies: Literature, Language, Culture from Freie Universität Berlin focuses on the literatures and cultures of the Anglophone world (with the exception of North America), in the past and the present.

In British and American Studies Master's from Bielefeld University students learn to do research independently and academically thoroughly and to grow further as writers of academic papers in literary and cultural studies as well as in linguistics and to understand the discipline inherent differences with linguistics as an empirical science and literary and cultural studies as a philology.

British Studies programme from Humboldt University Berlin  course is an interdisciplinary teaching programme over 2 years. Having successfully completed the Certificate Phase during the first year, students receive a British Studies certificate.