Are you up for a challenge? Broaden your horizons by adding another degree to your Master’s!
As a student at the University of Twente (UT), you have a lot of opportunities to expand your knowledge beyond your Master’s. If you want to acquire additional multidisciplinary skills and knowledge to respond to societal challenges even more effectively, you can combine your Master’s with another programme.
Combine two Master’s
If you want to expand your knowledge and skills in another domain, you have the opportunity to combine your Master’s in Electrical Engineering with, for example, a Master’s in Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Nanotechnology, Science Education, Embedded Systems, or Robotics.
Usually, combining two master’s results in a programme of approximately three years (180-190 EC) depending on the requirements of each programme.
This type of double master’s programme is always tailor-made. If you are interested in the possibility of combining your Master’s in Electrical Engineering with another programme, contact the programme coordinator for more information.
Master Honours programme
Excellent students can take part in one of our Master Honours Programmes: an extracurricular, broadening programme of 15 EC. Such a programme gives you, alongside your Master’s, the opportunity to enrich your knowledge, skills, and experiences outside your own discipline. Upon successful completion of the programme, you receive a certificate and an Honours Pin.
We advise you to start with your Master's first, before applying for a Master Honours Programme. A couple of months of studying will help you to decide whether a Master Honour Programme will be feasible for you. You can discuss this option with your study adviser.
If you do decide to apply for an Honours programme, note that acceptance is based on a selection procedure. Honours programmes are aimed at master's students who are among the top 10% of their class.
Curious about what students have to say about our Honours programmes? Check out the video below.
Master-Insert ‘Shaping Responsible Futures’
Are you socially engaged and do you want to explore societal challenges beyond your own study programme? University of Twente's DesignLab offers you the Transdisciplinary Master-Insert. In this programme, you will go beyond your normal, academic setting by working on societal challenges with real-world stakeholders. You can follow one, two or all three courses.
Using tools and techniques from across disciplines, you will learn to bring academic, professional, and experiential knowledge together. You become part of a community of transdisciplinary change-makers and earn yourself an official certificate complementary to your master's degree.
Our courses:
- Creative Intelligence (Q2 | 10 EC): Create tools and materials to support creative group activities involving people from a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds.
- Responsible Futuring (Q3 | 10 EC): Proactively take up societal challenges and design interventions that co-shape societies for pluriversal futures.
- Leading Systemic Change (Q4 | 10 EC): Learn how to manage the change-making process by designing, developing, and deploying holistic systems thinking.
The Master-Insert is open to all enrolled master’s students at UT. You can also apply if you are a master's student at ECIU or any of UT's partner universities.