Overview

Program and courses

This Master's program is focused on social issues, research, and policy, and is taught through small, interactive workgroups. You address social questions related to issues such as populism, class difference, and globalization. You will focus on the theory through research and gain practical skills by translating these issues into policy and investigating the effect of policy on behavior. You study societal issues related to politics, from a micro (individuals, e.g. voters), meso (e.g. social movements, political parties) and macro (e.g. political institutions) perspective.

• The Extended Master's program adds one semester to the total program to provide you with a research internship to enhance your skills and gain relevant work experience.
• With a Double Degree program, you have the opportunity to earn a degree from both Tilburg University and one of our partner universities:
  • Double degree in Sociology and Social Research (with the University of Trento - Trento, Italy)
  • Double degree in Sociology and Population Studies (with the Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona, Spain)
  • Double degree in Sociology (with the University of Bamberg - Bamberg, Germany)

As a graduate of the program, you are able to make a significant contribution to the analysis and solutions of today's social problems. You are specialized in sociological research of social issues and the impact of policy in areas such as labor, employment, culture, welfare, education, or healthcare. You could work as a researcher, policy officer, advisor, or in management. 

Graduates work, for example, as:

• Policy Officer
• (Junior) researcher
• Lecturer
• Consultant
• Scientist
• Journalist