92 Life Sciences Masters Degree Programs in Sweden

Students choosing the MSc in Biotechnology: Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering profile will receive a truly interdisciplinary education, with great breadth in biomaterials combined with depth in specific areas. These topics could include medicine, cell, and tissue-oriented biotechnology, as well as materials for medical devices and tissue engineering. You will be contributing to revolutionary new developments in the field and making a tangible difference in healthcare and medical industries worldwide.

How can we produce enough nutritious food, animal feed, materials, and energy in a sustainable manner? How can biotechnology assist in fostering a sustainable society, and a circular economy, while creating job and business opportunities? This Master's programme offers the chance to become a global community builder in roles such as researcher, engineer, or manager.

This 2-year Master's Program allows you to gain a deeper understanding of the ecology, evolution, and diversity of organisms. The Master of Science in Evolutionary ecology is multidisciplinary and builds on the student's knowledge of ecology, evolution, and organism biology in order to explore and appreciate biological diversity.

This program offers broad training at the frontier of research. Molecular life sciences aim is to understand the structure, function, and regulation of biological systems from the molecular to organism level. This rapidly growing field, seeing extensive technological advances and emerging new sub-disciplines, opens up a broad spectrum of career opportunities.

The joint master's programme in Molecular Techniques in Life Science fosters graduates for a professional research career in life science. It has a strong focus on molecular techniques for disease therapies and diagnostic tools, coupled with substantial training in data analysis (bioinformatics and programming). The programme is a collaboration between Karolinska Institutet, KTH and Stockholm University at the Science for Life Laboratory in Stockholm, offering students the unique opportunity to study at all three institutions.

The Experimental and Medical Biosciences master’s program prepares students for a scientific career within the broad field of the life sciences, with particular emphasis on understanding cellular and molecular mechanisms related to health and disease.

This programme is perfect if you would like a European double Master’s degree focusing on the relationships between natural resource uses in Europe and their effects on the environment and society.

Are you interested in how the nervous system works at its most fundamental level? Do you want to study at the frontier where chemistry and biology meet? Then this highly selective master’s program, the only one in Europe dedicated to neurochemistry with molecular neurobiology, could be for you.

The master's programme in Molecular Biotechnology and Bioinformatics trains students to analyse complex biological data from genomics, proteomics, and imaging, tackling global challenges in medicine, food production, and sustainability. Combining biotechnology and bioinformatics, graduates are equipped to lead the fast-evolving data-driven life science sector.

Proteins are the building blocks of life. They play a central role in various disease processes and can also be used for therapeutic purposes. If you want to learn more about these fascinating molecules then the master’s program in Biochemistry with Specialization in Protein Chemistry is for you.

Would you like to work with plants while influencing and participating in future sustainable production and cultivation of horticultural crops? Then this is the right Master’s programme for you.

The master's programme in Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology provides a deep understanding of how to design and operate state-of-the-art life science-based processes with respect to product quality, sustainability and finance. Graduates have the competencies and skills to use cells, cell components and biomolecules to produce commodities such as chemicals, food, biofuels, clean water or soil and biomaterials for the development of a sustainable society.

Thinking about studies and a career in climate change, weather predictions or environmental challenges? Our MSc program lets you customize your studies and apply your knowledge in mathematics, physics, and chemistry to understand the atmosphere and the oceans. Through this interdisciplinary program, you will get a broad comprehension of how physical and chemical processes influence the Earth's climate and how we can explain the relationship between human activity and climate change.

In the Master’s programme in Bioinformatics, you study how data science, computational and statistical approaches are applied to enable novel biological insights. The programme provides a broad insight into the use of bioinformatics, from clinical genetics to plant biotechnology and biodiversity monitoring. You will gain insight from active researchers into the broad diversity of areas where bioinformatics is now essential for advancing biological understanding and translation to societal impacts.

Plant biotechnology is an important tool to solve global problems. How do we produce enough food in the world? How do we develop renewable fuels and manage ecosystems in an environmentally friendly and sustainable manner? The Master’s programme in Plant and Forest Biotechnology gives you specialised competence and skills to recognize, understand and find solutions to these challenges.

Infection Biology is a growing field within biology that combines immunology, microbiology, molecular biology and cell biology. Research and education within this field are important to understand and control various types of infectious diseases in the future.

The master’s programme in Molecular Biotechnology has been developed in close cooperation with businesses working within bioscience and the biotechnology sector. This makes it unique and means that you will learn systems biology methods that are in demand both within the employment market and in research.

Landscape patterns and land use change are important components for understanding ecological processes affecting biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services. As most political and economic drivers are expressed through human activities, having a landscape focus has recently been recognized as important to address many of our current environmental goals. Our education program builds on our research strengths in applied historical ecology, landscape analysis, and resource management, linking community ecology with restoration and management of both terrestrial and marine environments.