MA/MS in Applied Mathematics

Mathematics provides tools to answer practical questions such as predicting when something will go viral, detecting disease through medical imaging, or understanding brain activity during an epileptic seizure, and the programme applies these tools to challenging issues across a range of sectors, teaching students to identify new patterns and predict them using mathematical models. Within a chosen specialisation, students have room for a number of electives and complete an internship or project with an outside company or organisation, in the Netherlands or abroad, with considerable freedom in choosing the topic for both the internship and the master's thesis. Employers across technical, financial, medical and social sectors increasingly look for mathematicians able to produce practical solutions.