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’
Do you envision what the future should look like and are you socially engaged? Do you have the ambition to go beyond your comfort zone and create societal impact? The University of Twente offers you the opportunity to incorporate the Transdisciplinary Master-Insert within your Master's. This is a full-time study programme of six months (30 EC) which means you put your regular Master's on hold for half a year.
You can also follow parts of the Master-Insert, through packages of 10 or 20 EC, making it easier to incorporate it into your Master's. In some cases, you can even use (part of) your elective space to follow part of the Master-Insert, as long as it complies with your own Master's.
Using tools and techniques from across disciplines, you will work in transdisciplinary ways on addressing complex societal challenges, aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Together with curious, passionate, and inspiring students and enthusiastic academics from all over the university, you become part of a unique learning community that allows you to become an accomplished boundary-crosser and build confidence as a future change-maker.
The Master-Insert is open to all enrolled master’s students at UT. However, admission is based on your motivation. On successfully completing the full programme, you will receive a certificate in Shaping Responsible Futures.