Research Master's

The Groningen Graduate Schools offer a number of Research Master’s and Top Master’s programmes, which are especially geared towards a research career in academia or beyond. The additional second year in the two-year Research or Top Master’s programmes offered by the Graduate Schools is an excellent preparation for a PhD but will also boost your career perspectives. You can write a PhD proposal as part of your Research or Top Master’s degree programme, and the most successful proposals will result in a PhD position.

Graduate School of Behavioural and Social Sciences

• Behavioural and Social Sciences

Graduate School of Economics and Business

• Economics and Business

Graduate School for the Humanities

• Archaeology
• Classical, Medieval and Early Modern Studies
• Clinical Linguistics / EMCL
• Language and Cognition
• Language and Communication Technologies (Double Degree Programme)
• Arts, Media and Literary Studies
• Modern History and International Relations
• Cultural Leadership

Graduate School of Law

• Master of Legal Studies (Dutch only)

Graduate School of Medical Sciences

• Clinical and Psychosocial Epidemiology
  • CPE track Health Systems and Prevention
• Molecular Medicine and Innovative Treatment *
  • International Master in Innovative Medicine (Erasmus+)
• MD/PhD Medicine (general information MD/PhD programme)
• MD/PhD Dentistry (general information MD/PhD programme)
• Human Movement Sciences* (selective)
• Sport Sciences* (selective)

Graduate School of Philosophy

• Philosophy (research)

School of Science and Engineering

• Applied Mathematics*
• Applied Physics*
• Artificial Intelligence*
• Astronomy*
• Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences
• Biology*
• Biomedical Engineering*
• Biomedical Sciences*
• Biomolecular Sciences (selective)*
• Chemical Engineering*
• Chemistry*
• Computing Science*
• Ecology and Evolution* (selective)
• Energy and Environmental Sciences*
• Computational Cognitive Science*
• Industrial Engineering and Management*
• Marine Biology* (selective)
• Mathematics*
• Mechanical Engineering*
• Medical Pharmaceutical Sciences *
• Nanoscience* (Top Master)
• Physics*
• Systems & Control
• Water Technology (joint degree)

Graduate School of Spatial Sciences

• Islands and Sustainability (Erasmus Mundus)
• Spatial Sciences (Top Master)

Graduate School of Religion, Culture and Society

• Theology and Religious Studies (research)
  • Religious Diversity in a Globalised World

* Two-year Master’s degree programme with a strong focus on research, but not registered as a Research Master' degree programme by the Central Accreditation Council (CROHO).