All Master programmes
Study programmes taught in English leading to Master's degree
Advanced and Applied Chemistry
Learn how to develop and design materials and products through knowledge of chemistry, for example, development of pharmaceuticals.
Agricultural Development
Agricultural Development deals with the development of agriculture in the developing countries. You will learn about how, through knowledge on nutrition, environment and economics, you can create better conditions for people and nature in the individual countries.
Agro-Environmental Management
The programme focuses on the pressure that agricultural production and climate changes put on nature and the environment.
Agrobiology
The programme is about agriculture, both animal production and plant production. You will learn about agriculture in a global perspective and about organic farming.
American Studies
The programme deals with the culture, political system and foreign policies in the USA. It is an interdisciplinary programme, which includes components from humanistic and social studies.
Applied Cultural Analysis
You will gain insight into cultural analysis and will be able to work with intercultural communication, management and innovation.
Applied ICT
The programme is about developing services and solutions using Information and Communications Technology.
Aquatic Science and Technology
The programme combines biological, technological and mathematical courses. It gives you qualifications for working with global issues within climate, environment and food supply.
Architectural Design
In the advanced Architectural Design programme, you work with the design of city neighbourhoods, industrial productions, digital design, etc. You will follow courses in both technical and aesthetic subjects, enabling you to solve concrete projects.
Architectural Engineering
The programme combines engineering with design and architecture. You will work with planning, design and operation of buildings.
Asian Studies
The programme combines Chinese or Japanese culture and language with international business administration. Through knowledge of Asian culture, language and economics, you will be able to work for and with companies in East Asia.
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics combines mathematics, biology and computer science. You will learn how to use mathematical methods and computer models to examine biological data.
Biology-Biotechnology
The Biology-Biotechnology programme deals with how you use plant cells, animal cells and microorganisms in, for example, production of foods, pest control or making biological treatment systems for environmental use.
Biosystems Engineering
This programme combines biology and technology. You specialise in either automation or environmental technology.
Biotechnology
Biotechnology deals with the production of products with the help of living organisms, for example, yeast in beer production or the baking of bread. In biotechnology, you use gene-spliced organisms to, for example, produce medicines.
Biotechnology (Engineering)
By studying cells and the chemical properties of cells, you learn to develop, for example, new and improved medicines, foods or environmentally friendly forms of energy.
Biotechnology, Chemistry and Environmental Engineering
You will study the chemical and biological processes applied in different areas of production. You will, for example, work with the production of pharmaceuticals, foods or clean water.
Building and Construction
In this programme, you can specialise in Building Structures, Building Services, Soil and Water Mechanics, Urban and Construction Management, or Indoor Environmental Engineering.
Business Administration
Business Administration is a broad course of study, which gives you a fundamental academic knowledge of economics. You learn about corporations and their interaction with the rest of society.
Business, Language and Culture
In the programme, you learn both language and economics in order to prepare you for a job in the global market. You will study, among other things, foreign cultures and the problems or challenges that an international corporation may have to face.
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering is the engineering field dealing with development of products and production processes requiring chemical, biochemical and physicochemical transformations of raw materials. The programme is centered on methods with general applicability, fx to chemicals, pharmaceuticals, advanced materials, or fuels.
Chemistry
Chemistry is a part of everything in our surroundings. In the Chemistry programme, you learn about how different types of matter are combined and what properties they possess. This could be, for example, the matter found in food or medicine.
Chemistry (Engineering)
You will study and research in chemical and biological processes in for example food products, washing powder, medicine and alternative energies.
Cognition and Communication
The programme will give you a theoretical and empiric insight into the basic aspects of human cognition.
Cognitive Semiotics
Semiotics is the study of signs. In the programme you will work with various sign systems, such as language and images, and you will learn to work with classic models of signs and their functions.
Communication
You learn how to write text for various individuals and media. It can be anything from people at a work place, radio listeners, or patients in a hospital. You will work with different types of media, for example websites, video and radio.
Computer Engineering (Software)
As a student of Computer Engineering (Software), you will learn to develop different kinds of software solutions, for example business applications, games, network applications and basic software.
Computer science
Computer Science is a theoretic programme in IT, which provides you with a broad comprehension of how IT systems function. You will also acquire the scientific tools needed to solve IT problems and develop new systems.
Computer Science and Engineering
Using tools from both traditional electrical engineering and computer science, you will learn to design and develop computer software and hardware systems.
Corporate Communication
The programme focuses on strategic management of communication processes in private or public companies, organisations and institutions. You will be qualified to undertake management positions in areas such as communication, public relations or corporate branding.
Creative Business Processes
The Management of Creative Business Processes programme deals with the work processes that go on in a production company.
Cultural Encounters
The Cultural Encounters programme deals with the opportunities and challenges that occur when people from different cultures meet. You will study, among other things, how language is affected and changed when cultures come together.
Culture, Communication and Globalisation
The focus of the Culture, Communication and Globalisation programme is the communicative, cultural, social and political aspects of global processes. You will be able to work for example as a project manager in an international company or organisation.
Design and Innovation
The programme will teach you methods to design new products and systems so they will be easier and cheaper to manufacture. Examples are mobile phones, kitchen appliances and computer systems.
Development and International Relations
You will study, among other things, the relationship between countries in the Third World and countries in the West. You will learn about different theories within development and work in areas like economics, politics and culture.
Economics
Economics is closely connected to developments in society. Material values, such as money, to a great degree, control how a society appears.
Economics and Business Administration
In the Economics and Business Administration programme, you get specialised knowledge within a business administrative profession. Interdisciplinary studies and specialisation enables you to solve the problems within society and the business community.
Electrical Engineering
Study the interaction between software and hardware in electrical circuits and areas like acoustics, wireless engineering, electric power engineering and automation and robot technology.
Electronics and Information Technology
You learn to design and build electronic equipment and electrical apparatus. This can be anything from small components like transistors and microcomputers to complete computer systems.
Engineering Design and Applied Mechanics
You will study the design and development of mechanical components and production equipment and specialise in energy systems or coastal and maritime engineering.
English
The English programme deals with language, literature and culture in the English-speaking parts of the world, for example Great Britain, USA and Australia.
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
In the programme, you will study the correlation between economics and the environment. You will learn, for example, about how you make the most of different forms of natural resources, for example oil. You will also learn about the problems with pollution and what you can do to avoid them.
Environmental and Resource Management
This programme combines science and technology with social science. You will learn to identify and solve environmental problems while maintaining the balance between the environment, business and the society.
Environmental Biology
Environmental Biology deals with living organisms and their physical surroundings. You will study living organisms of all sizes from cells to large mammals. Environmental biologists also examine how humans affect nature.
Environmental Chemistry
The programme gives an understanding on how we affect the surrounding ecosystems when we utilise the natural resources. You will study topics like ecology, the greenhouse effect and heavy metals.
Environmental Chemistry and Health
In this programme, you will study the effects that harmful substances have to the environment and to humans. You will develop ways to avoid the adverse effects that chemical substances have on the environment and on the people's health.
Environmental Engineering
In the programme, you learn to prevent and solve environmental problems. You will study society's environmental concerns and learn how they can be resolved technically.
Environmental Management
The Master of Science Programme in Environmental Management at Aalborg University is directed at science and engineering students who are interested in topics related to sustainability and environmental management. The programme is designed to meet these new challenges, by integrating inputs from the social and human sciences into the study of planning and engineering. The focus is on how firms, governments, and other organisations can support sustainable development in an economically efficient and socially acceptable manner.
European Studies (Humanities)
In the European Studies programme, you will work with European history, politics and culture. You will study the historical development of democracy and examine the roles that religion, war and science have played in Europe.
European Studies (Social Science)
In the European Studies programme, you learn how the European countries and the EU have developed historically, and why Europe looks the way it does. You will become familiar with the EU's institutions and work processes.
Film Studies
You will study the aesthetic, psychological, institutional, and cultural aspects of film and other audiovisual media such as TV, video, computer media.
Food Science and Technology
You will learn about foods and their production and about health. You will gain a broad knowledge of the most important foods, from harvest to dinner table.
Food Technology
Food Technology is about designing and developing food products. You will learn to use advanced techniques of biotechnology, microbiology and bioinformatics.
Forest and Nature Management
Forests and nature have many important functions. They protect the biological diversity, provide pure drinking water, produce trees and give us experiences such as hunting, fishery and recreation. Forests are important for the well being of the entire earth – animals, plants, humans, the climate and the environment rely on them.
Geology-Geoscience
The Earth's formation and development is a geological discipline. You will learn about which minerals and rock forms the Earth is made of, how the Earth has developed and how humans can uncover and use the Earth's raw materials.
Horticulture
Horticulture is the study of gardening. The subject spans from biology to economics and gives you the scientific background to work with fruit and plant production.
Human Biology
Human Biology is an interdisciplinary, science oriented study. Focus is on the basic science disciplines of importance for our understanding of human health and disease.
Information Architecture
In the Information Architecture programme, you learn how to design and develop content and structure in digital information systems - for example on the internet.
Innovation and Business
The programme deals with developing ideas for new products. You will learn to develop ideas for products and businesses. At the core is the idea of being creative and having technical knowledge and good business sense.
Innovative Communication Technologies and Entrepreneurship
The programe combines a technical knowledge of communications technologies and converging media (mobile, Internet and digital TV) with creativity, market and user awareness.
International Business and Politics
The programme is a study in the relationship between international business administration, governments and other organisations. The programme combines business administration with politics in an international and global perspective.
International Studies
The International Studies programme focuses on international corporations and organisations.
International Tourism and Leisure Management
Through a combination of socio-economic, language and culture studies, the programme gives you qualifications in the areas of tourism, leisure and culture. The primary language is English, the secondary German.
IT Product Design
You learn how to design intelligent IT products that focus on on people and their needs. You will study the design process and develop methods and techniques to engage the users.
Library and Information Science
You will learn to structure information and knowledge for example on the Internet, within a library or in a company.
Lifelong Learning: Policy and Management
The programme is aimed at professionals who wish to develop the field of lifelong learning and gain specialised expertise in lifelong learning policy or management.
Maritime Archaeology
In the Maritime Archaeology programme, you work with excavating historical relics underwater, such as shipwrecks. You will study underwater excavations and how you best preserve maritime cultural heritage.
Master of Disaster Management
The programme will provide the student with a new interdisciplinary mind set: Balancing the three main processes in Disaster Management: Disaster Risk Reduction, Response and Recover, the student will be able to effectively prevent and manage disaster situations.
Materials Science and Engineering
In the programme, you will work with materials such as plastic, concrete and metals. You will learn about the composition and production of materials and about which materials are suitable for different products
Mathematical Modelling and Computation
Study and develop mathematical models and methods for industrial applications, agriculture, information services, financial institutions and government.
Mathematics
Mathematics is a theoretical subject, where you learn to solve problems with the help of numbers and symbols. You will learn to think logically and abstractly with the help of mathematical methods and terms.
Mechatronics (Engineering)
You will learn to use technologies such as mechanics, electronics and software - and you will be able to develop user friendly products of the future that combine these technologies. The study programme will focus on the whole process - from idea to final product.
Media Studies
You will gain insight into the fundamental theories and methods for understanding the role of media in modern society, and you will learn how to associate theoretical knowledge of media and communication with practical presentation and communication.
Media Technology and Games
In the Media Technology and Games programme, you learn to develop and design the technology behind the reproduction of images, sound, speech and graphics.
Medialogy
Medialogy is both a technical and creative programme. You will learn to use modern technology to create, among other things, computer games, films and music.
Medicine and Technology
You will learn to develop computer based methods to examine, diagnose and treat illnesses.
Middle East Studies
You will study the politics, history and culture of the Middle East countries since 1920. You can focus on subjects like the war in Iraq, refugee issues or the social development of the Middle East.
Molecular Biology
The study of cells, and the molecules that make them up, are the core of molecular biology. You will have subjects such as gene splicing, genetics, biochemistry and microbiology.
Molecular Biomedicine
You will study human genes to learn how they interact with disease e.g. cancer, and how the results can be used in the development of new medicines.
Molecular Nutrition and Food Technology
The programme gives you an insight in the relationship between food production and human health. You will study molecular biology, food technology and nutrition.
Nanotechnology
In this programme you will learn to develop new materials and products using nanotechnology, e.g. new kinds of medicine or small industrial robots.
Parasitology
Parasites are tiny animals, plants or organisms that live off of sucking nutrients from others. They are often the cause of disease and illnesses. Parasitology is the study of parasites and their damaging effects.
Pharmaceutical Sciences
The programme focuses on the various phases of the drug development process. You will learn about pharmaceuticals from the discovery and development of new active substances to their effect and use in patients. An MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences will qualify you to work in in the pharmaceutical industry and in research and teaching.
Philosophy
Philosophy is about how people perceive and understand life. In the course of this programme, you will study both ancient and modern philosophy. You will also study the fields of logics, history of knowledge, ethics and political philosophy.
Physics and Nanotechnology
You will work with both scientific techniques and modern processing methods at molecular scale level. For example development of nano-structured materials with tailored electrical, magnetic, mechanical and chemical properties or modelling of complex, biological systems.
Physics and Technology
You will learn how to use physics to develop new materials and products that reproduce light and sound. In the programme, you will specialise in either acoustics (the study of sound), optics (the study of light) or in material studies.
Process Analytical Technology
In the Process Analytical Technology programme, you learn to control, develop and improve the production of various products, such as food or medicine. You learn how to ensure that the product, for example a pill, is up to standards.
Product Development and Innovation
The programme combines theory and business related projects. You will be able to work in counselling, with project management or the development of refrigeration and control systems.
Production
You will learn to develop technological products. You will learn to manange the development, production, sale and servicing of for example industrial robots, wind mills or health care activities.
Public Administration
You will study the structure of the public administration and the relationship between citizens and politicians. You will be qualified to work in international companies or organisations.
Public Health
In the programme, you learn about the health condition of the general public and about the prevention of disease and promotion of health issues amongst the population. The study is interdisciplinary and combines health, social and natural science subjects.
Refrigeration
The programme is about developing refrigeration systems that are energy-conserving and environmentally friendly.
Robotics
The programme focuses on the robotics development of the future, for example the new personal service robots, modern industrial robots and the design of the car of tomorrow.
Service Management
In this programme, you learn to manage service companies and organizations in a global context. You can focus on either trade, tourism and hotel management, travel and transportation or meeting and event activities.
Software Construction
You will learn to develop different kinds of computer systems. The focus is on the areas of programming, computer architecture and information seeking.
Software Development and Technology
You will learn to understand, analyse and create software and IT systems.
Sustainable Energy
You will learn about environmentally friendly energy techologies and systems. You can specialise in for example Electrical Energy Systems or Energy Savings.
Sustainable Energy Planning and Management
The global demand for sustainable energy, combined heat and power, and higher energy efficiency is growing rapidly. Utilities, local communities, and governmental authorities all over the world face new challenges in planning and implementing these technologies on local, national and international scales.
