Master's degree
An graduate degree supplements the undergraduate degree and leads to the second highest university degree (Master). It can serve to scientifically deepen previous studies or open up new areas of knowledge.
At Freie Universität Berlin, there are a variety of master's degree programs with different durations, admission requirements, and costs.
Study Programs in Cooperation with national and international Universities
New study offer for the winter semester 2024/25 (partly conditional on approval by the senate administration responsible for higher education):
- Critical Dance Studies (M.A.)
- Economic Systems (M.Sc.)
- Science, Technology and Medicine in the Ancient World (M.A.)
Master´s programs
- Applied Landscape and Field Archaeology
- Applied Literary Studies - Contemporary Literature
- Arabic Studies
- Archaeology of the Ancient World
- Art History in a Global Context: Focus on Africa
- Art History in a Global Context: Focus on East Asia
- Art History in a Global Context: Focus on Europe and America
- Biochemistry
- Biodiversity, Evolution, Ecology
- Bioinformatics
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Chinese Studies
- Classical Archaeology
- Classical Philologies
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Computational Sciences
- Computer Science
- Culture and Media Management
- Dance Studies
- Data Science
- Digital Studies of Ancient Texts
- Dutch Studies in International Context
- East European Studies
- Economic Systems
- Economics
- Educational Research
- Egyptology
- English Studies: Literature, Language, Culture
- Film Studies
- Finance, Accounting and Taxation
- Gender, Intersectionality and Politics
- General and Comparative Literature
- Geographical Environmental Research
- Geographies of Global Inequalities
- Geological Sciences
- German Literature: Focus on Medieval Literature
- German Literature: Focus on Modern Literature
- German as a Foreign Language: Teaching Cultural Studies
- Global East Asia
- Global History
- History
- History and Cultures of Ancient Western Asia: Focus on Archaeology of Ancient Western Asia
- History and Cultures of the Ancient Near East: Focus on Ancient Oriental Studies
- Information Systems
- Integrated Chinese Studies
- Integrated Japanese Studies
- Integrated Korean Studies
- Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies of the Middle East
- Iranian Studies
- Islamic Studies
- Japanese Studies
- Jewish Studies
- Korean Studies/East Asian Studies
- Linguistics
- Management & Marketing
- Mathematics
- Media and Communication Studies
- Media and Political Communication
- Meteorology
- Modern Greek Language and Literature
- Music, Sound, Performance
- North American Studies
- Pharmaceutical Research
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Planetary Sciences and Space Exploration
- Political Science
- Prehistoric Archaelology
- Psychology: Focus on Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
- Psychology: Focus on Work, Organizational and Health Psychology
- Public Economics
- Public History
- Religious Studies
- Romance Literatures
- Semitic Studies
- Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Sociology – European Societies
- Theater Studies
- Turcology
Master of Education
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Classical Greek Philology
- Computer Science
- English Studies
- Ethics/ Philosophy
- French
- German
- History
- Italian
- Latin
- Mathematics
- Physics
- Politics/Political Education
- Primary Education
- Q-Master
- Spanish
- Special Needs Education
Continuing education
Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy
- Biochemistry (Master´s programs)
- Biodiversity, Evolution, Ecology (Master´s programs)
- Biology (Master of Education)
- Biology (Master´s programs)
- Chemistry (Master´s programs)
- Chemistry (Master of Education)
- Computational Sciences (Master´s programs)
- Pharmaceutical Research (Master´s programs)
Department of Earth Sciences
- Computational Sciences (Master´s programs)
- Geographical Environmental Research (Master´s programs)
- Geographies of Global Inequalities (Master´s programs)
- Geological Sciences (Master´s programs)
- Meteorology (Master´s programs)
- Planetary Sciences and Space Exploration (Master´s programs)
Department of Education and Psychology
- Cognitive Neuroscience (Master´s programs)
- Educational Research (Master´s programs)
- Futures Studies (Continuing education)
- Primary Education (Master of Education)
- Psychology: Focus on Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (Master´s programs)
- Psychology: Focus on Work, Organizational and Health Psychology (Master´s programs)
- School Development in Line with Teaching of Democratic Principles and Social Skills (Continuing education)
- Special Needs Education (Master of Education)
Department of History and Cultural Studies
- Applied Landscape and Field Archaeology (Master´s programs)
- Arabic Studies (Master´s programs)
- Archaeology of the Ancient World (Master´s programs)
- Art History in a Global Context: Focus on Africa (Master´s programs)
- Art History in a Global Context: Focus on East Asia (Master´s programs)
- Art History in a Global Context: Focus on Europe and America (Master´s programs)
- Chinese Studies (Master´s programs)
- Classical Archaeology (Master´s programs)
- Digital Studies of Ancient Texts (Master´s programs)
- Egyptology (Master´s programs)
- Global East Asia (Master´s programs)
- Global History (Master´s programs)
- History (Master of Education)
- History (Master´s programs)
- History and Cultures of Ancient Western Asia: Focus on Archaeology of Ancient Western Asia (Master´s programs)
- History and Cultures of the Ancient Near East: Focus on Ancient Oriental Studies (Master´s programs)
- Integrated Chinese Studies (Master´s programs)
- Integrated Japanese Studies (Master´s programs)
- Integrated Korean Studies (Master´s programs)
- Interdisciplinary Studies of the Middle East (Master´s programs)
- Iranian Studies (Master´s programs)
- Islamic Studies (Master´s programs)
- Japanese Studies (Master´s programs)
- Jewish Studies (Master´s programs)
- Korean Studies/East Asian Studies (Master´s programs)
- Prehistoric Archaelology (Master´s programs)
- Public History (Master´s programs)
- Religious Studies (Master´s programs)
- Semitic Studies (Master´s programs)
- Turcology (Master´s programs)
Department of Law
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
- Bioinformatics (Master´s programs)
- Computational Sciences (Master´s programs)
- Computer Science (Master´s programs)
- Computer Science (Master of Education)
- Data Science (Master´s programs)
- Mathematics (Master of Education)
- Mathematics (Master´s programs)
- Physics (Master of Education)
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
- Applied Literary Studies - Contemporary Literature (Master´s programs)
- Classical Greek Philology (Master of Education)
- Classical Philologies (Master´s programs)
- Culture and Media Management (Master´s programs)
- Dance Studies (Master´s programs)
- Dutch Studies in International Context (Master´s programs)
- English Studies (Master of Education)
- English Studies: Literature, Language, Culture (Master´s programs)
- Ethics/ Philosophy (Master of Education)
- Film Studies (Master´s programs)
- French (Master of Education)
- General and Comparative Literature (Master´s programs)
- German (Master of Education)
- German Literature: Focus on Medieval Literature (Master´s programs)
- German Literature: Focus on Modern Literature (Master´s programs)
- German as a Foreign Language: Teaching Cultural Studies (Master´s programs)
- Italian (Master of Education)
- Latin (Master of Education)
- Linguistics (Master´s programs)
- Modern Greek Language and Literature (Master´s programs)
- Music, Sound, Performance (Master´s programs)
- Philosophy (Master´s programs)
- Q-Master (Master of Education)
- Romance Literatures (Master´s programs)
- Spanish (Master of Education)
- Theater Studies (Master´s programs)
Department of Physics
Department of Political and Social Sciences
- Gender, Intersectionality and Politics (Master´s programs)
- Media and Communication Studies (Master´s programs)
- Media and Political Communication (Master´s programs)
- Political Science (Master´s programs)
- Politics/Political Education (Master of Education)
- Social and Cultural Anthropology (Master´s programs)
- Sociology – European Societies (Master´s programs)
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Institute for East European Studies
Institute for Latin American Studies
John-F.-Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
School of Business and Economics
A - D | E - G | H - K | L - Q | R - Z |
A - D
- Applied Landscape and Field Archaeology (Master´s programs)
- Applied Literary Studies - Contemporary Literature (Master´s programs)
- Arabic Studies (Master´s programs)
- Archaeology of the Ancient World (Master´s programs)
- Art History in a Global Context: Focus on Africa (Master´s programs)
- Art History in a Global Context: Focus on East Asia (Master´s programs)
- Art History in a Global Context: Focus on Europe and America (Master´s programs)
- Biochemistry (Master´s programs)
- Biodiversity, Evolution, Ecology (Master´s programs)
- Bioinformatics (Master´s programs)
- Biology (Master of Education)
- Biology (Master´s programs)
- Chemistry (Master´s programs)
- Chemistry (Master of Education)
- Chinese Studies (Master´s programs)
- Classical Archaeology (Master´s programs)
- Classical Greek Philology (Master of Education)
- Classical Philologies (Master´s programs)
- Cognitive Neuroscience (Master´s programs)
- Computational Sciences (Master´s programs)
- Computer Science (Master´s programs)
- Computer Science (Master of Education)
- Culture and Media Management (Master´s programs)
- Dance Studies (Master´s programs)
- Data Science (Master´s programs)
- Digital Studies of Ancient Texts (Master´s programs)
- Dutch Studies in International Context (Master´s programs)
E - G
- East European Studies (Master´s programs)
- Economic Systems (Master´s programs)
- Economics (Master´s programs)
- Educational Research (Master´s programs)
- Egyptology (Master´s programs)
- English Studies (Master of Education)
- English Studies: Literature, Language, Culture (Master´s programs)
- Equine Medicine (Continuing education)
- Ethics/ Philosophy (Master of Education)
- European and International Business, Competition, and Regulatory Law (Continuing education)
- Film Studies (Master´s programs)
- Finance, Accounting and Taxation (Master´s programs)
- French (Master of Education)
- Futures Studies (Continuing education)
- Gender, Intersectionality and Politics (Master´s programs)
- General and Comparative Literature (Master´s programs)
- Geographical Environmental Research (Master´s programs)
- Geographies of Global Inequalities (Master´s programs)
- Geological Sciences (Master´s programs)
- German (Master of Education)
- German Literature: Focus on Medieval Literature (Master´s programs)
- German Literature: Focus on Modern Literature (Master´s programs)
- German as a Foreign Language: Teaching Cultural Studies (Master´s programs)
- Global East Asia (Master´s programs)
- Global History (Master´s programs)
H - K
- History (Master of Education)
- History (Master´s programs)
- History and Cultures of Ancient Western Asia: Focus on Archaeology of Ancient Western Asia (Master´s programs)
- History and Cultures of the Ancient Near East: Focus on Ancient Oriental Studies (Master´s programs)
- Information Systems (Master´s programs)
- Integrated Chinese Studies (Master´s programs)
- Integrated Japanese Studies (Master´s programs)
- Integrated Korean Studies (Master´s programs)
- Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies (Master´s programs)
- Interdisciplinary Studies of the Middle East (Master´s programs)
- Iranian Studies (Master´s programs)
- Islamic Studies (Master´s programs)
- Italian (Master of Education)
- Japanese Studies (Master´s programs)
- Jewish Studies (Master´s programs)
- Korean Studies/East Asian Studies (Master´s programs)
L - Q
- Latin (Master of Education)
- Linguistics (Master´s programs)
- Management & Marketing (Master´s programs)
- Mathematics (Master of Education)
- Mathematics (Master´s programs)
- Media and Communication Studies (Master´s programs)
- Media and Political Communication (Master´s programs)
- Meteorology (Master´s programs)
- Modern Greek Language and Literature (Master´s programs)
- Music, Sound, Performance (Master´s programs)
- North American Studies (Master´s programs)
- Pharmaceutical Research (Master´s programs)
- Philosophy (Master´s programs)
- Physics (Master´s programs)
- Physics (Master of Education)
- Planetary Sciences and Space Exploration (Master´s programs)
- Political Science (Master´s programs)
- Politics/Political Education (Master of Education)
- Prehistoric Archaelology (Master´s programs)
- Primary Education (Master of Education)
- Psychology: Focus on Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (Master´s programs)
- Psychology: Focus on Work, Organizational and Health Psychology (Master´s programs)
- Public Economics (Master´s programs)
- Public History (Master´s programs)
- Q-Master (Master of Education)
R - Z
- Religious Studies (Master´s programs)
- Romance Literatures (Master´s programs)
- School Development in Line with Teaching of Democratic Principles and Social Skills (Continuing education)
- Semitic Studies (Master´s programs)
- Small Animal Science (Continuing education)
- Social and Cultural Anthropology (Master´s programs)
- Sociology – European Societies (Master´s programs)
- Spanish (Master of Education)
- Special Needs Education (Master of Education)
- Theater Studies (Master´s programs)
- Turcology (Master´s programs)