MA/MS in Public Policy and Human Development

Offered in collaboration with United Nations University's Maastricht institute, UNU-MERIT, this one-year master's examines how public policy can support innovation-based growth, strengthen social protection systems, and shape effective migration policy. The programme centres on how public policy connects to effective, efficient governance, working through both the design of policy and its implementation in practice. Students build a mix of numerical and qualitative abilities, methods, and background knowledge intended for direct professional use, preparing them to work in policy-related roles across public, private, and non-profit organisations internationally. The emphasis throughout is on developing the analytical capacity to evaluate and shape public policy responses to concrete governance questions, rather than on policy theory in isolation, giving graduates a skill set transferable across different policy domains and institutional settings.