Branches of study

Second-cycle study programmes are conducted as university or professional graduate studies. The university or professional graduate study that a student enrols in after a three-year university or professional undergraduate study lasts two years, and upon its completion at least 120 ECTS credits are acquired. A university or professional graduate study that a student enrols in after a four-year university or professional undergraduate study lasts one year and upon its completion at least 60 ECTS credits are acquired or lasts two years and upon its completion at least 120 ECTS credits are acquired. The total number of credits accumulated during the first and second-cycle programmes is at least 300.

According to the Register of Study Programmes, there are 641 second-cycle study programmes. 

Number of study programmes by scientific field:

• Biomedicine and Healthcare: 31

• Biotechnical Sciences: 50

• Social Sciences: 172

• Humanities: 129

• Natural Sciences: 51

• Technical Sciences: 109

• Art Field: 59

• Interdisciplinary Fields: 40

Admission requirements

A person who has completed a corresponding university undergraduate study or a university integrated study can enrol in a university graduate study. A person who has completed a corresponding professional or university undergraduate study can enrol in a professional graduate study. Exceptionally, a person who has completed a corresponding professional undergraduate study in accordance with the general act of the higher education institution that conducts that study can also enrol in a university graduate study, if they pass differential exams determined by the higher education institution. The enrolment conditions for a university or professional graduate study are determined by the higher education institution.

Curriculum

For more information on this topic, see section 7.2.1 Bachelor. 

Teaching methods

For more information on this topic, see section 7.2.1 Bachelor. 

Progression of students

For more information on this topic, see section 7.2.1 Bachelor. 

Employability

The Agency for Science and Higher Education (ASHE) encourages higher education institutions to systematically support students and staff in strengthening their competences for managing their own careers. The Agency provides support to higher education institutions in developing professional guidance services and the sustainability of career centres, as well as strengthening the competences of career counsellors in order to better respond to the professional requirements and challenges they face when working with students. 

The Agency supports career centres of higher education institutions with standards for evaluating the quality of higher education institutions in the reaccreditation process, by implementing educational activities and holding workshops for networking and strengthening competences for managing one's own career. 

The Agency regularly updates the overview of higher education institutions with established career centres and monitors activities in the field of career guidance.

Student assessment

For more information on this topic, see section 7.2.1 Bachelor. 

Certification

Upon completion of the studies, the student is issued a diploma and a diploma supplement.

Upon completion of the university graduate study the academic title of University Master with reference to a specialisation (univ. mag. with reference to a specialisation) is acquired, and in the field of technical sciences and some programmes in the field of biotechnical sciences, the academic title of University Master of Engineering with reference to a specialisation (univ. mag. ing) is acquired with reference to a specialisation).

Upon completion of the professional graduate study the professional title of Master with reference to a specialisation (mag. with reference to a specialisation) is acquired and in the technical field the title of Master of Engineering with reference to a specialisation (mag. ing. with reference to a specialisation).