MA in Tourism and Culture
Nijmegen, Netherlands
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
01 Jul 2025*
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 2,601 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* final deadline for EU students | deadline for EU students who want to get assistance with housing: 1 May 2025 | deadline for non-EU students: 1 Apr 2025
** Statutory fee for EU/EEA students | Institutional tuition fee EU/EEA: €13.784 | For non-EU/EEA students: €18.404
Key Summary
Introduction
Municipalities, heritage centres, publishers and travel organisations are increasingly looking for academically trained professionals who can creatively and critically reflect on tourism as a cultural phenomenon and who can provide tourists with enticing ideas and well-informed stories.
This master’s specialisation will train you to analyze and critically reflect on contemporary trends in tourism and heritage management, focusing on the challenges and opportunities of (for instance) dark tourism, film-induced tourism, and sustainable tourism. Enriched with a long term historical perspective and developing projects with and for public and commercial partners, you will not only acquire the academic knowledge and practical skills to work in the field, but also to change the field.
Why study this programme?
- The first Master's in Cultural Tourism Studies in the Netherlands
- Integration of academic research and practical on-the-job training through research projects, policy papers, and workshops with public or commercial partners
- Interdisciplinary approach: combines history, literary and cultural studies, art history, and heritage studies
- Well-established contacts with leading players in the field of cultural tourism, which will help you to build up your professional network and to learn from state-of-the-art expertise
- International fieldwork, for instance at renowned academic institutes (such as the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome)
Admissions
Curriculum
Specialisations
The Master’s specialisation in Tourism and Culture is taught at the Faculty of Arts. It offers you the opportunity to combine theory and practice within its lectures, interactive courses and eventually an individually written Master’s Thesis. The Master’s programme has a course load of 60 ECTS* (one year). All courses are offered as academic seminars with about 15-30 students, from various disciplines and national backgrounds. A schematic overview can be found here.
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Career prospects
As an academic expert in cultural tourism, you will be able to offer a creative, critical and well-informed contribution to the tourism industry and the cultural sector.
Depending on your own initiative and talents, this Master’s specialisation will help you to become (for example):
- A policymaker at a municipality
- A project leader at a heritage site
- A publicist for a lifestyle magazine or travel appendix of a newspaper
- A communication or education officer at a heritage site
- An entrepreneur developing new formats and tours
The combination of solid academic training and hands-on work experience in the field also offers outstanding preparation for journalistic, research and policy functions in other fields than the tourism industry.
Labour market information in the Netherlands Studiekeuze123*
From the graduates of the Master’s programme in Arts and Culture, 45% found a job within their field. The gross starting salary based on 29 hours a week is €1,800. (Source: www.studiekeuze123.nl)
Radboud Career Service
Radboud Career Service can assist students in finding internships, gives career advice and can offer tips and guidance when applying for jobs.