24 MSc Degree Programs in Padua Italy

The Master’s degree explores how to produce healthier and safer food following a cross-cutting, farm/field-to-fork approach. Theoretical lessons are mixed with practical training, offering hands-on experience in advanced DNA RNA and protein analysis together with lab sessions in bioinformatics. Focused on the application of innovative biotechnological methodologies in food production and safety, it is the ideal connection between the requests of consumers and producers in the agri- food sector and the research applied to production and food-safety.

The Master’s degree in ICT for Internet and Multimedia captures the evolution of the information engineering profession and represents a modern teaching approach that combines both solid fundamental knowledge and advanced technological skills. Focusing on devices, networks, signals, as well as cross-disciplinary issues (machine learning, big data, photonics, life sciences), the programme offers both strong theoretical courses, laboratory classes and applied research-oriented teaching towards advanced technologies for future society. An internship programme is also available within companies or research labs, thus further enriching the curriculum.

The Master’s degree in Astrophysics and Cosmology aims to provide students with a comprehensive, up-to-date view of the main fields of modern Astrophysics, including astronomical detectors and techniques, black holes and neutron stars, cosmology, gravitational physics, planets, stars, and galaxies. Particular emphasis is placed on a solid background in Physics and the growing ties among Astrophysics and different branches of Physics in the coming era of multi-messenger observations.

The Master’s degree in Physics of Data provides new theoretical and computational tools to tackle the explosion of datasets within the physicist mindset. It combines advanced knowledge in the field of Physics with high-level training in Data Science. The program thus trains the new generation of data physicists, equipped with tools that will allow them to face the challenges that the digital revolution has brought to our society.

The Master’s degree program trains professionals able to interpret, formalize, and solve complex problems related to the design, operation, and optimization of industrial processes where chemical, physical, and biochemical transformations of material and energy are carried out. Focusing on raw materials selection, process and equipment design and operation, safety and environmental management as well as cross-disciplinary issues, the program offers both strong theoretical and application-oriented courses fostering skills and knowledge for sustainable engineering deployment in future society. This is a European-accredited Master engineering program according to the EUR-ACE system.

The Master’s degree explores understanding, management, promotion, and protection of high-value food products. The Italian food production system serves as a model to identify the specific elements outlining the unique value of food products, which are inextricably linked to place (terroir) through historical, social, and cultural ties. This background couples with the most recent developments in technology, nutrition, food safety, diet and health, and sensory science, core elements of a growing international demand for terroir-related high-value foods.

With the steady advancement of Quantitative and Computational Biosciences and analytical tools, all branches of Biological sciences are being swamped with a deluge of data that is calling out for analyst professionals. The QuaCBio Master’s degree combines courses from the biological and hard science realms, with a strong emphasis on hands-on bioinformatics trainings. Through this approach, students with a comprehensive STEM background are expected to get together and cross-contaminate when dealing with Big Data in omics, evolution, ecology and physiology and become the next generation of Computational Biologists.

The Master’s degree program offers a comprehensive view of the environment, key to modern naturalists, by combining theoretical knowledge with high-level scientific and practical training. Students will acquire advanced skills in the system analysis of the natural environment in a changing climate and will learn how to master the scientific method for research in natural sciences, the modern tools for environmental monitoring (e.g. remote sensing), data acquisition, and statistical data analysis and storage, the principles and techniques of geological, floristic and faunistic investigation, and the methods for environmental impact assessments.

This Master’s degree in Mathematics program offers a wide range of specializations in either pure or applied mathematics and relies on scientific and professional contacts established by the Math Department. Various study paths are possible; however, the training tends to focus on the methodological issues in any field to avoid the obsolescence of the acquired skills. Master’s students will acquire in-depth knowledge of current methodologies in one or more specific areas of mathematics and prove the competence achieved through extensive thesis work, which accounts for almost a third of the overall effort.

Materials Engineering is an interdisciplinary and revolutionary sector that has transformed every aspect of modern life by gradually introducing new materials crucial to the development of new technologies and numerous industries. The training is expected to give the students specific professional knowledge, targeted at finding the best solutions for the production of materials and for their transformation and use processes.

The Master’s degree program in Electronic Engineering is aimed at training designers of electronic systems in various sectors, such as electronics for computing and telecommunications, industrial automation and manufacturing, electronics for biomedical applications, electronics for efficient energy conversion and utilization, electronics for domestic use (home, office, transport), electronics for automotive and airborne-space systems.

The Master’s degree in Computer Engineering is designed to convey world-class competencies and abilities for mastering and developing advanced IT systems. The program provides strong methodological foundations as well as the practical skills required to deal with advanced applications in several areas of Computer Engineering.

This Master’s degree in Aerospace engineering program provides key skills to fulfill management, R&D, and production roles in the aerospace industry and in the many industries that provide services or supply components to it. The program offers both strong theoretical courses and applied research-oriented teachings, preparing students to develop advanced technologies for the society of the future. Students may choose one of the two curricula provided within the programme, focusing respectively on Space and Aeronautics technologies.

The Master’s degree in Complex and Data Driven Chemistry program introduces the fundamental concepts of “data-driven chemistry”: statistical learning, chemometrics, and design of experiments. These concepts will be contextualized within the broader context of a Master’s degree program in Chemistry. The fundamental areas where data-driven approaches are most applicable includes the collection of chemical data, the synthesis and design of materials and catalysts, the design of synthetic strategies, and the modeling and study of complex chemical systems.

This Master’s degree in Evolutionary Biology aims to train expert graduates with advanced and operational knowledge in the field of biodiversity, capable of applying such knowledge to the conservation of biological heritage. The subjects covered in the Master’s degree fully utilise the knowledge of the properties of biological systems acquired during the three-year undergraduate programme, delving into topics related to evolutionary mechanisms and dynamics, reproductive and adaptive strategies, and morpho-functional, genetic, and biomolecular plasticity in organism-environment relationships.