44 Master Programmes in Siena, Italy for 2024

The Master in Language and Mind is a highly interdisciplinary program aimed at providing a comprehensive understanding of language as a human cognitive capacity, combining theoretical perspectives in Linguistics and Philosophy with their different and many applications in fields such as Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Text Analysis.

The MSc in Electronics Communications Engineering aims to form a graduate with advanced knowledge of current telecommunications and electronic systems and with the latest skills for their design, development, and maintenance. The program provides studies in key technical areas such as digital communication techniques, information theory, electronic design, and high-frequency techniques. Besides a solid math science/engineering education, the student can improve their skills by tailoring the course to his requirements by choosing among a number of option modules in application fields such as security, safety, energy, and environment.

The Chemistry Master is a high-level degree course with leading professors from around the world. It provides a unique educational opportunity in an international student environment. The core and optional courses present in the program allow a range of learning and training opportunities that allow for a wide range of employment and research opportunities, born from close ties with local and international industrial partners.

The master's degree in Biodiversity, Conservation, and Environmental Quality (BCEQ), entirely taught in English, prepares the highly qualified figure of environmental biologist expert in the multiple aspects of biodiversity, aimed at nature conservation and the assessment of environmental quality.

Social sustainability and welfare management graduate is able to interpret social phenomena in a critical and reflective way. He also acquired the expertise to experiment programs to protect the most vulnerable population groups through an intervention aimed at social innovation, enhancing the relationship with the users of services, as well as with the network of public and private institutions at the local level.

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

The MSc in Electronics Communications Engineering aims to form a graduate with advanced knowledge on current telecommunications and electronic systems and with the latest skills for their design, development, and maintenance. The program provides studies in key technical areas such as digital communication techniques, information theory, electronic design, and high-frequency techniques. Besides a solid math science/engineering education, the student can improve its skills by tailoring the course to his requirements by choosing among a number of option modules in application fields such as security, safety, energy, and environment.

The MSc in Engineering Management provides high-level competencies for mathematical modeling, optimization, decision making, and management of systems and organizations. The study program is focused on managerial economics, data and decision analysis, marketing, game theory, logistics and production planning, and project management.

This second-cycle degree program (laurea magistrale) provides graduates with an advanced level of competence (at least C1) in two languages (chosen amongst English, Russian, Chinese and French), and a solid background in economic and legal studies. In doing so it offers an interdisciplinary preparation which responds to the needs of today’s work world, with particular attention to issues of sustainability and to the increasing demand for skills in the area of linguistic and cultural mediation, including in situations of conflict.

The Master in Geological Sciences and Technologies opens the doors to careers in geological researches and applications, giving job opportunities in Italy and abroad. The master's degree program offers two curricula and includes differentiated specialistic courses in: Applied Geomorphology, Geophysics and Seismic Risk, Geology and Stratigraphy, Applied Geology and Hydrogeology, Applied Petrography, Environmental Geochemistry, Cultural Heritage and Geoarchaeology, GIS, Close and Remote Sensing. Thematic and interdisciplinary field trips, fundamental for geologists’ education, take place in Italy and they are economically supported with Departmental funds.

The Master in Language and Mind is a highly interdisciplinary program aimed at providing a comprehensive understanding of language as a human cognitive capacity, combining theoretical perspectives in Linguistics and Philosophy with their different and many applications in fields such as Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and Text Analysis.

This master’s degree allows to train professionals capable of working in the field of consultancy to individuals and organizations, corporate training, human resource management, project management.

The Laurea Magistrale in Economics, held entirely in English, provides an advanced level of education in economics. The course structure and level of study of the LM correspond to what is offered in the international academic arena as part of an MSc in Economics course. The command of knowledge, tools, and techniques of analysis acquired in this program allows both the continuation of studies to start a career as an economist, and employment as an economic analyst or with functions of responsibility in companies, banks and public and private institutions, and international organizations. The LM draws on the disciplinary skills available in the Department of Economia Politica e Statistica, with its long tradition of research and teaching at the graduate level (the Department has been running a renowned doctoral program in Economics for decades).

The aim of the single-cycle degree course in CTF (PCT) is to provide students with an advanced level of multidisciplinary training for the pursuit of highly qualified activities in the field of pharmaceutical sciences. The multidisciplinary nature of the knowledge enables the graduate to enter various sectors of the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical-food, and cosmetic industry, as well as to work as a Pharmacist and Chemist, or to carry out professional activities in the pharmaceutical, pharmacological, and (bio)chemical fields. School teaching is not precluded. The training pathway aims to train a professional figure capable of operating in complex realities with adequate tools of critical knowledge, and analysis and with specific evaluation and implementation planning skills.

The Second Cycle Degree program prepares students for employment as diplomats, international functionaries, public officials and business managers. It also prepares them for service as officials and managers in non-governmental and non-profit organizations operating in the fields of international relations, human rights, development cooperation and humanitarian aid in critical areas.