138 Natural Sciences Masters Degree Programs in Italy

Our MSc. A degree in Materials Science and Nanotechnology offers a multiple-view approach to tackling new tasks for research and technology innovation, with a focus on sustainability. We strive to create individuals who can provide innovative solutions to complex challenges facing the world today.

The program provides a broad choice of activities including hands-on sessions at the in-house optical telescope, data analysis of observations taken from the best instruments available at top facilities, high-performance numerical simulations of complex astrophysical systems and advanced classes in the new field of gravitational wave astrophysics.

The Master’s degree captures the evolution of professional engineers proposing an advanced study program that combines both solid fundamental knowledge of physical processes and deep theoretical and technological competences. It provides students with a multidisciplinary high-level education lying between engineering and applied mathematics, giving them advanced skills in the field of mathematical modelling of physical or financial processes together with advanced computational engineering expertise.

This Master’s degree combines solid fundamental knowledge on the Earth’s processes and history with cutting-edge geological techniques and data processing. Through applied research-oriented teaching, field activities and laboratories, the Program offers advanced education and training in the geosciences, fostering innovative thinking on diverse issues crucial for future societies such as the prevention and mitigation of geohazards, land planning and environmental management, Climate Change, prospection and sustainable exploitation of georesources, geomaterials, cultural heritage protection, planetary exploration. A student exchange international Program is active with the Department of Geosciences of the University of Frankfurt (Germany).

The MS forms a " planner " with skills that allow him to assume a role of coordinating project teams engaged in territorial and urban planning, landscape planning activities, and development of strategies, policies, and projects of urban and territorial transformations.

The Master’s degree aims to train marine biologists with the skills needed for understanding key processes and patterns in marine and coastal ecosystems, for the conservation and sustainable use of marine resources, and for the development of methods and technologies for the breeding of economically relevant commercial species. The knowledge of Biology acquired during the Bachelor will be deepened with course units on evolutionary processes; reproductive strategies; adaptation, morphological and functional plasticity; genetics; molecular biology; marine ecology and conservation; climate changes and other anthropogenic impacts on the environment; experimental design and data analysis.

The master degree course has the aim of adequately prepare graduates for getting jobs in both public and private sector; this by providing capacities for the treatment of large databases, for planning and implementing sample surveys in various fields, with major focus on socio-economic and environmental sectors.

Our Master of Science (MSc) in Forensic Biology is specifically designed for students who wish to consolidate their knowledge in this field further, increasing their specific skills and professional capacity. The program approaches the subject from different perspectives: the ethical-legal and the purely scientific and analytical. The course of study guarantees theoretical training and a solid specialized education obtained through research activities and practical laboratory sessions.

The goal of the Molecular Biology of Cell course is to train biologists in advanced biomolecular research, to address present and future scientific challenges. Both theoretical and practical aspects of biomolecular research will be addressed in English, providing students with a global understanding of the field. The MBC course covers all principal areas of the LM-6 Biology course, with a unique focus on biomolecular subjects that distinguishes it from other courses of the same LM Class. The main goal of the MBC course is to train biologists in advanced biomolecular research, to address present and future scientific challenges.

The Molecular Biotechnology and Bioinformatics master's degree aims to provide students with advanced skills in molecular biotechnology, computational biology, and bioinformatics, with a strong focus on the most advanced tools and approaches for the analysis of genomes, proteomes, and metabolomes. The main goal of the MB&B Master's degree is to give the students the broad theoretical and practical background needed to apply their knowledge to various biological/biotechnology problems.

Health Informatics is a joint Master's Degree course resulting from the strategic collaboration between Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and Politecnico di Milano, two institutions of excellence in medical and technical informatics education. This two-year program, taught in English, aims to develop the most advanced informatics skills applied to the field of medicine, preparing highly sought-after professionals for today's and tomorrow's job market.

This two-year program, taught in English, aims to develop the most advanced informatics skills applied to medicine, preparing highly sought-after professionals for today's and tomorrow's job market. The realization of this revolution in medicine and biomedical research necessarily involves training new talents capable of integrating advanced computer science skills with a solid and broad understanding of the specific healthcare context.

The main educational objective of this Master of Science program is to prepare an engineer able to “produce” innovation both in the industrial environment as well as in basic research and which is highly competitive in the global market, with particular reference to the physical and optical technology, nanotechnology and photonics sectors.

This programme has the objective of preparing professionals able to deal with issues relating to complex systems with an engineering mentality, harmonising a solid scientific background with a command of advanced methodologies e technologies.