MSc Applied Cognitive Neuroscience
Groningen, Netherlands
DURATION
12 Months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
01 May 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
01 Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 20,800 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* EU/EEA students: €2530 | non-EU/EEA students: €20800
Introduction
In addition, you will learn to apply theories and methods from cognitive neuroscience to real-world scenarios: economic decision making, education, marketing, clinical practice, policymaking, etc. During the master's, you will combine your scientific knowledge and your creativity to develop your own project that brings cognitive neuroscience from the lab into the world.
Finally, you will acquire the skills for designing, programming, and conducting cognitive-neuroscience experiments; and you will learn how to analyze complex data sets. Through hands-on experience, you will gain practical skills that are crucial in today's job market, both in academia and business.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Year 1
- Data collection and analysis for cognitive neuroscience
- Repeated Measures
- Trends in Cognitive Neuroscience
- Internship
- Master's thesis
- Applied Cognitive Neuroscience
- Test Construction
Program Outcome
Credits: 60 ECTS
MSc in Psychology
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
After you have finished the master Applied Cognitive Neuroscience, you will be able to work with human data in the broadest sense, and this is a unique set of skills that is relevant in many areas of today's job market.
For example, you will be able to
- measure and improve the effectiveness of marketing campaigns;
- work with large sets of human data as a data analyst
- help companies and governmental organisations to design, implement, and test human-friendly systems and environments;
- evaluate and improve traffic situations.
And finally, but just as importantly, you will have a deeper understanding of the human mind.
Job examples
Researcher
CPP graduates are well prepared for a career as researcher, for example as PhD student at a university, but also in the private (Philips, Unilever) or government sector (ministries, TNO), or with NGOs(SWOV)
Advisor/Consultant
You can use your skills and knowledge as CN-graduate to advise companies, NGOs of the government about the latest developments in applied cognitive neuroscience, for example in the context of human-computer interaction, or on recent developments such as neuromarketing.