Overview

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid offers a Masters program based on cutting-edge neuroscience and neurotechnology to transfer the latest scientific advances to students.

This Master’s degree is an innovative and unique graduate program at institutional, national and even international level. Neurotechnology constitutes a novel and promising branch of biomedical technology, which has the potential to profoundly transform science and technology, with applications ranging from medicine to cognitive enhancement and human-machine integration.

The Master will provide students with a wide range of career opportunities at the intersection of neuroscience and technology, enabling graduates to contribute significantly to future technological revolutions that will profoundly influence the evolution of society and improve people’s quality of life.

UPM)has demonstrable strength in several fields of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology. The UPM professors and researchers who will teach the Masters bring together multidisciplinary expertise, providing a full range of classes including measuring and analysing brain signals, neuroimaging, sensors and advanced materials, simulation, neurodevices, artificial intelligence, brain-computer-interface, neuroprosthesis, neuroethics, etc.

The UPM’s multidisciplinary expertise is the foundation on which this institution seeks to advance the fields of neuroscience and neurotechnology in the coming years, with this Masters program being an essential component of this goal.

Accreditation

The program has been verified by the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA) of Spain.

Programme Structure

The Master’s Degree in Neurotechnology by the UPM is a new and innovative degree, unique at this time in the map of degrees at the institutional, national and international level.

The distribution of credits (ECTS) in the proposed degree is as follows:

Mandatory ECTS: 36

Optional ECTS: 0

External academic internships ECTS: 6

Master’s thesis ECTS: 18

Total ECTS: 60

Summary of the Syllabus

The curriculum has a semester structure. All subjects are taught in English.

1st semester (30 ECTS)

Neuroethics (NRET, 3 ECTS)
Seminars (SEMN, 3 ECTS)
Neuroscience (NRCN, 6 ECTS)
Neurodevices (NRDS, 6 ECTS)
AI in Neurotechnology (IANT, 6 ECTS)
Neurosignals and Neuroimaging (NRSI, 6 ECTS)

2nd semester (30 ECTS)

Neuroprosthetics (NPTS, 6 ECTS)
Interships (PAE, 6 ECTS)
Master’s Thesis (TFM, 18 ECTS)

Lecturers

Lectures are held daily from 9:00 to 13:00 during the first semester and on Mondays afternoon (15:00 to 19:00) on the second semester.

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 9 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-03 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-07-09 00:00:00

More details

https://neurotec.upm.es/en/masters-of-science-in-neurotechnology/enrollment-procedure/

Language

English

Credits

60 ECTS

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Madrid, Spain

Disciplines

Bio & Biomedical Engineering View 6 other Masters in Bio & Biomedical Engineering in Spain

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

The Master’s Degree in Neurotechnology at the UPM is aimed at graduates in biomedical engineering, which will be the recommended entry profile. In addition, graduates in other branches of engineering, such as telecommunication engineering, industrial and automatic engineering, data engineering, or computer engineering, which will constitute the additional entry profile, may also be admitted to the Master’s Degree.

Given that this Master’s degree has a very specialized focus, it is considered that students coming from degrees other than those specified above do not meet the minimum requirements for admission.Once the deadline for admission applications has closed, a series of criteria based on a scoring system (max. 10 points) will be used for the selection of candidates, as detailed below:

Your academic record of the degree that gives you access to the program and University of origin The average grade of the transcript will be valued.
Your interest and motivation, as well as your research experience in related degrees.
Positive reports, in writing, and letters of recommendation or other reports provided. Those from professors of the Program and from other departments or universities will be valued.
Other optional academic or professional merits.

English: When applying for admission, applicants must certify a level of proficiency in English equivalent to B2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Since the totality of the credits of the subjects of this degree will be taught in English, it will not be necessary for non-Spanish speaking students to certify their knowledge of Spanish.In general, the personal characteristics of the appropriate entry profile should correspond to people with a natural interest in neurotechnology, demonstrated self-initiative and capacity for self-organization at work, vocation for the discovery of new knowledge and participation in R+D+i teams, decision-making capacity, leadership in teamwork, and ability to move in multidisciplinary environments both nationally and internationally.

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Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

5040 EUR / full

≈ 5040 EUR / full
EU/EEA Applies to you

Applies to you

EU/EEA Nationals

2700 EUR / full

≈ 2700 EUR / full

Additional Details

https://www.upm.es/Estudiantes/Estudios_Titulaciones/Estudios_Master/Matricula

Living costs

Madrid

Spain

745 - 1260 EUR / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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