Study Global Governance Law at the University of Helsinki and develop the skills to deal with the challenges of legal globalisation. Globalization has brought about a situation where lawyers are now required to grapple with national, international, European, and transnational laws when they apply norms. In the two-year research-oriented Master's Program in Global Governance Law (GGL), you develop the skills to understand and deal with the challenges of globalizing law.

In your master’s degree studies you will continue studying music subjects, teachers’ pedagogy, and research techniques. The degree requirements also include elective studies, which constitute at least a fifth of your master-level studies. During your studies, you will take part in various music projects as a musician, bandleader, music composer, and arranger. You will gain experience from teaching in schools and other educational institutions, as well as from collaborating with various operators in the field of culture. Three on-the-job training periods in schools are included in the curriculum.

In the two-year Master’s Program in Changing Education, you get an understanding of education as a dynamic and transformable construct from the individual neural level to global policies. You also gain the knowledge and skills to analyze, develop, and influence the practices and structures of education systems, institutions, teaching, and pedagogical issues.

Live Art and Performance Studies (LAPS) is a two-year master’s programme in English that combines critical thinking with experimentation in artistic work and artistic research. We empower you to develop and activate new knowledge of performance and its theory. As a student of our programme, you will be committed to studying full-time.

The community at the University of Helsinki works together towards making the world a better place. We link research and education closely together to provide students with topical, high-level and distinguished Master’s programs. By studying in the Master in Agricultural, Environmental and Resource Economics (AGERE), you qualify as an expert with a set of skills needed to address tomorrow’s questions already today. Which question will you solve?

Come and study at one of the best performing arts universities in the world! We provide the highest level of church music training that prepares you for working in diverse expert and developer roles. Besides focusing on your musical skills, you will also improve your knowledge of pedagogy, theology, and research. You can choose to complete studies that will give you the qualifications for a church musician post within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. Depending on your interests, you can focus on early childhood education, solo musicianship, gospel music, or choral conducting, for example.

All technology around us is based on materials. Master in Materials Research has a great opportunity to solve grand societal problems and find discoveries in the fields of energy, food, water, safety, health and well-being, environment, sustainable use of resources and urbanisation. New fascinating materials with unexpected properties, tailored to the needs of our society, can change the way we live our everyday life.

TRANSMED accepts students from suitable educational backgrounds, such as life sciences and natural sciences, engineering, psychology etc. Students’ diverse backgrounds together with their TRANSMED studies give them a unique skill set for future careers. The Master in Translational Medicine curriculum is organized in close collaboration with researchers and units in the Faculty of Medicine and the Helsinki University Hospital, culminating in clinical rounds in the Helsinki University Hospital.

In the Master’s Programme in Agricultural Sciences (AGRI), you can pursue studies in plant production sciences, animal science, agrotechnology, or environmental soil science, depending on your interests and previous studies. The University of Helsinki is the only university in Finland to offer academic education in this field.

The Master’s Programme in Pharmaceutical Research, Development and Safety offers the opportunity to obtain a comprehensive overview of the life cycle of drugs and their use. The study program combines compulsory and optional courses with study tracks that focus on three possible subdisciplines: 1) drug discovery and pharmacology, 2) drug development and 3) medication safety and effectiveness. The programme combines research-oriented studies and high-quality pedagogical methods and integrates the perspective of Green and Sustainable Pharmacy into the curriculum, essential for managing the global sustainability challenge.

The two-year master’s studies allow more freedom than bachelor’s studies, providing opportunities to engage in independent artistic work. You will actively participate in the planning and implementation of your own studies, as well as in developing the field of art that the degree program represents.

Our Master's Programme in Geography is based on high-quality research groups operating in some of the major fields of geography. It is divided into three study tracks: 1) physical geography, 2) human geography, and 3) geoinformatics.

You will get to lead a trainee orchestra or a choir on a weekly basis, and some of your rehearsals are recorded on video. During the joint feedback sessions, you will be able to exchange thoughts and ideas on your work with your student colleagues and the supervising teachers. Regular collaborations with professional orchestras both in Finland and abroad serve as a bridge between studies and working life. These working methods make our education unique even by international standards. The program in conducting comprises a variety of subjects within music theory and conducting practice. With the help of studies that are tailored to fit your personal goals, you will acquire the skills needed to work in demanding roles in the field of music.

Nordic Master in Jazz (NOMAZZ) is a master’s program in jazz organized collaboratively by the Royal Academy of Music in Denmark (Aarhus/Aalborg), University of the Arts Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy in Finland, and Royal College of Music in Sweden. You will deepen and develop your artistry and technical proficiency, while simultaneously acquiring advanced knowledge of the Nordic jazz scenes. The arranging universities take turns hosting the studies, and the language of instruction is English. Students will be granted a Nordplus study grant for their studies abroad.

The Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research (CDPR) programme offers students a unique opportunity to experience distinctly different forms of dramaturgical thinking and performance cultures, enabling a comparative approach to dramaturgical practice and theory. The programme is the first double-degree program at Uniarts Helsinki. The programme is tailored for process-oriented students who wish to work in international and multidisciplinary contexts such as collaborative productions, research-oriented artistic projects, and other projects and institutions that combine artistic activities and research.