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Life after CogSci

Master and PhD programs related to Cognitive Science

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Master programs in Germany

Osnabrück

M.Sc. Cognitive Science, Osnabrück

M.Sc. Cognitive Computing, berufsbegleitend, Osnabrück
Language: English

M.Sc. Cognitive Science, online

  • Language: English
  • Exclusively reserved for international students (= students who did not get their Bachelor's degree in Germany, do not reside in Germany and are not German nationals)
  • No applications possible at the moment (Info from 07.2023)

Aachen

M.Sc. Data Analytics and Decision Science, RWTH Aachen
M.Sc. Simulation Sciences, RWTH Aachen

Augsburg

M.A. Philosophie - Deutung – Wertung – Wissenschaft
Requirements: German C1, 60 CP in Philosophy (check study regulations)

Bamberg

M.A. Public Ethics
Zulassungsvoraussetzungen:

  • 2 Fremdsprachen
  • BA-Mindestnote 2,5
  • mind. 45 ECTS in Philosophie / Theologie / Politikwissenschaft

M.A. Survey Statistics and Data Analysis

  • mind. 2,5 Bachelor
  • statistischer und/oder quantitativ-methodischer Orientierung im Umfang von mindestens 30 ECTS-Punkten

Berlin

M.Sc. Computational Neuroscience, BCCN Berlin
M.Sc./M.A. Mind and Brain, Berlin School of Mind and Brain

M.Sc. Cognitive Neuroscience, FU Berlin
M.Sc. Data Science, FU Berlin

M.Sc. Scientific Computing, TU Berlin
M.Sc. Human Factors, TU Berlin

M.A Design and Computation

  • Language: German, C1 B2, many Courses in English
  • Requirements: Finished Bachelor of any kind
  • Notes: Entrance via portfolio review, it helps to go to online Tutorials beforehand
  • check out newpractice.net

Bochum

M.Sc. Cognitive Science, Ruhr Universität Bochum
M.A. History, Philosophy and Culture of Science
M.Sc. Applied Computer Science, Ruhr Universität Bochum

Bielefeld

M.Sc. Intelligente Systeme

  • Possibility to do a double-degree with University of Bologna

M.A. Interdisciplinary Studies of Science

M.Sc. Behaviour: From Neural Mechanisms to Evolution

  • Suitable for coxis who want to pivot to animal cognition/behaviour and are primarily interested in an academic career
  • Small group of students, close contact with lecturers and the involved research groups, very practically oriented
  • Rather intense schedule in the first year that makes having a part-time job near impossible; however, HiWi jobs in the research groups are rather easy to come by starting with the second year
  • Requirements: 60 credits in relevant fields, 30 of which are easily filled with CogSci classes. For animal behaviour, my bachelor thesis with the Comparative BioCognition group was acknowledged as well as a few psychology seminars that included animal topics - don't be afraid to mention even small things that might not add up to 30 ECTS

Braunschweig

M.A. Kultur der technisch-wissenschaftlichen Welt

Bremen

M.A. Angewandte Philosophie

  • mind. 45 CP im Fach Philosophie

M.Sc. Neurosciences

Chemnitz

M.Sc. Sensorik und Kognitive Psychologie
M.Sc. Neurorobotik

Darmstadt

M.Sc. Autonome Systeme
M.Sc. Cognitive Science
M.A. Data and Discourse Studies
M.A. Linguistic and Literary Computing
M.A. Technik und Philosophie

Dortmund

M.Sc. Data Science
M.Sc. Automation and Robotics
M.A. Wissenschaftsjournalismus

Dresden

M.Sc. Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience

Duisburg

M.Sc. Angewandte Kognitions- und Medienwissenschaften

Düsseldorf

M.Sc. Translational Neuroscience
M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence and Data Science

Frankfurt am Main

M.Sc. Bioinformatik (German)
M.A. Empirische Sprachwissenschaft (German)
M.A. Linguistics (English)
M.Sc. Interdisciplinary Neurosciences
(English)

M.Sc. Inclusive Design - Intelligente Systeme, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
(German)

Freiburg

M.Sc. Neuroscience

M.Sc. Environmental Science -
Environmental Modelling and Data Sciences
(English)

  • For students focusing on AI, ML and the like but want to work applied on climate problems.
  • Master offerst multiple tracks including ecology, biodiversity, transformative energy systems. Courses from other tracks may be attended but do not in general count towards your degree.
  • Note that the university of Freiburg does not accept the proof of language proficiency as awarded by the University of Osnabrueck. Only studies in english within english-speaking countries are recognized. However, sometimes your a-levels might be enough to proof C1 english sufficiency. You can talk to the program administration about it.

Gießen

M.Sc. Bioinformatik und Systembiologie

  • Language: German
  • Requirements: mindestens 18 CPs in Mathematik/Statistik, Biologie und/oder Informatik, Einzelfallprüfung durch Prüfungsausschuss, kein NC

M.Sc. Human Movement Analytics - Biomechanics, Motor Control, and Learning

  • Language: English

M.Sc. Mind, Brain, Behavior

  • Language: English

Göttingen

M.A. Digital Humanities
M.Sc. Neurosciences

  • All courses are in English
  • 18 months
  • Possibility to directly change to the doctoral program without writing a Master’s thesis (3 years)
  • Rather biologically oriented (if you get accepted to the first application round, you'll be invited to a biology test (similar to GRE-biology) or an online interview testing your basic knowledge of biology)

M.Sc. Angewandte Informatik

M.Sc. Developmental, Neural and Behavioral Biology
Eligibility:

  • at least 75 ECTS (about 1800 hours) in Biology and
  • at least 30 ECTS (about 750 hours) in Mathematics/Physics/Chemistry/Informatics

M.Sc. Applied Data Science
Academic qualifications: At least 60 ECTS in Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics or Statistics.

Hamburg

M.Sc. Intelligent Adaptive Systems
M.Sc. IT Management & Consulting

Hannover

M.A. Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Prerequisites: English B2 + undergraduate degree in related field

Heidelberg

M.Sc. Computational Linguistics
M.Sc. Angewandte Informatik
M.Sc. Mathematik und Scientific Computing

Jena

M.Sc. Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
M.Sc. Computational and Data Science, german only currently

Kaiserslautern

M.Sc. Cognitive Science, TU Kaiserslautern
M.Sc Embedded Computing Systems, TU Kaiserslautern
M.Sc. Sozioinformatik, TU Kaiserslautern

Karlsruhe

M.A. Wissenschaft - Medien - Kommunikation, KIT

Kiel

M.Sc. Data Science, FH Kiel

Konstanz

M.A. Speech and Language Processing

Köln

M.Sc. Biological Sciences
Language: English
Specializations:

  • Computational Biology
  • Ecology, Evolution, and Environment
  • Mechanisms of Aging and Aging Associated Diseases
  • Molecular and Developmental Genetics
  • Molecular Plant and Microbial Sciences
  • Neurobiology: Genes, Circuits, and Behavior

Prerequisites:

  • strong focus on biological science during Bachelor's programme
  • incl. practical/hands-on training
  • Bachelor overall grade ≤ 2.7

M.A. Linguistik und Phonetik
Language: German
Prerequisites: 40 ECTS in Linguistics during Bachelor's + English B2
M.Sc. Experimental and Clinical Neurosciences
Language: English
M.Sc. Psychologie, forschungsorientiert
Language: German, English
Prerequisites: "Bewerber, die keinen B.Sc. in Psychologie erworben haben, müssen eine Gleichwertigkeitsprüfung bei der Auswahlkommission [] beantragen"
M.Sc. Sociology and Social Research
Possibility to do a double-degree in Groningen (NL)
Language: English
Prerequisites:

  • ≥ 18 ECTS in Sociology or Social Psychology
  • ≥ 12 ECTS in the field of Methods in Quantitative Social Sciences, Applied Quantitative Empirical Social Research, or Statistics
  • English: B2
  • Bachelor overall grade ≤ 2.7

M.A. Theorien und Praktiken professionellen Schreibens
Prerequisites:

  • ≥ 40 ECTS in Linguistics, Philosophy, etc.
  • Bachelor overall grade ≤ 2.5
  • Good German skills (DSH, Stufe 2))
  • Entry test: 3000-5000 character long text (literary or journalistic)

Leipzig

M.Sc. Data Science
M.Sc. Digital Humanities
M.A. Linguistics
Language: English

M.A. Literarisches Schreiben

  • Bewerbung
  1. Textprobe des Manuskripts, das während des Studiums weiterentwickelt werden soll (30 Seiten)
  2. Exposé der Planung des Projekts (max. 3 Seiten)
  • Eignungsprüfung: Gespräch mit Lehrenden und Studierenden (1 Std)

M.Sc. Sport and Exercise Psychology

  • Language: English
  • Possibility to do a double-degree with the University of Thessaly (Greece)

Lübeck

M.Sc. Entrepreneurship in digitalen Technologien

  • Language of instruction: German (ein paar Wahlpflichtkurse können auf English sein)
  • Hochschule: Universität zu Lübeck, Institut für Entrepreneurship und Business Development
  • Start: Sowohl zum WiSe als auch zum SoSe möglich.
  • Zulassungsvoraussetzungen (Stand 2024):
    • Bachelorabschluss in einem Informatik- oder informatik-nahen Studiengang (Cognitive Science zählt dazu, solange man genügend Erfahrungen im Informatik-Bereich gesammelt hat; es gibt jedoch keine harten Vorgaben, z.B. wie viele ECTS Informatikkurse ausmachen müssen)
    • Abschluss des Erststudiums mit einer Gesamtnote von mindestens 2,7
    • Motivation(sschreiben)
    • Ausreichende Kenntnisse der deutschen Sprache (internationale Studierende müssen dies evtl. nachweisen)
  • Fachliche Ausrichtung:
    • Offiziell handelt es sich um einen Informatik-Master mit Wirtschaftswissenschaften als Nebenfach.
    • Der informatisch-technische Bereich besteht aus einem 6 ECTS Pflichtkurs (es kann aus zwei Kursen gewählt werden) und Wahlpflicht-Kursen im Umfang von 36 ECTS. Die Wahlpflichtkurse können sehr frei aus den Master-Kursen der verschiedenen Informatik-Institute der Universität gewählt werden (IT-Sicherheit, Informationssysteme, Robotik & Kognitive Systeme, Medieninformatik, Medizinische Informatik / Medizintechnik, Technische Informatik, Theoretische Informatik, Telematik).
    • Der wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Bereich besteht aus Pflichtkursen im Umfang von 44 ECTS mit Fokus auf Intra- und Entrepreneurship sowie Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement.

Sollte man die formalen Zulassungsvoraussetzungen erfüllen, ist es sehr sicher, dass man auch einen Platz erhält, weil aufgrund von wenigen Bewerbungen i.d.R. nie alle Studienplätze vergeben werden.

Allgemein lässt sich sagen, dass die Atmosphäre am Institut sehr familiär ist. Trotzdem kann man viele tolle Leute kennenlernen, da man die meisten Kurse mit verschiedenen Informatikstudierenden, Studierenden der Technischen Hochschule oder anderen zusammen belegt. Besonders wenn man daran interessiert ist, das innovative CogSci-Denken in die Wirtschaft zu bringen (z.B. in Form eines Start-Ups), ist der Studiengang sehr empfehlenswert. Dazu kommt, dass Lübeck als Weltkulturerbe- und Hansestadt auch einiges außerhalb der Uni zu bieten hat.

Magdeburg

M.Sc. Integrative Neuroscience
M.Sc. Philosophie-Neurowissenschaften-Kognition
M.Sc. Computervisualistik
M.Sc. Data and Knowledge Engineering
M.Sc. Digital Engineering

Mainz

M.Sc. Anthropologie
Module:

  • Humangenetik/Molekulargenetik
  • Historische Anthropologie
  • Pharmakogenetik/Populationsgenetik
  • Bioarchäometrie/Palaeopopulationsgenetik
  • Projektarbeit
  • Erweiterte Qualifikationen
  • Masterarbeit

M.Sc. Computational Sciences - Rechnergestützte Naturwissenschaften
Prerequisites:

  • 6 CP Programmierung
  • 20 CP Mathematik
  • 20 CP Naturwissenschaften

M.A. Digitale Methodik in den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften

M.Sc. Epidemiologie

  • vorausgehende Bachelor: in Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik, Informatik, Sozialwissenschaften, Geisteswissenschaften
  • Auswahlgespräch
  • Verfahrensnote: 70% vorheriges Studium, 30% Auswahlgespräch

M.A. Journalismus

  • Voraussetzung: abgeschlossenes Fachstudium, keine vorgegebene Fachrichtung
  • Eignungsprüfung

M.A. Philosophie / Philosophie: imaginaire et rationalité, dt.-frz. Studiengang

  • mind. 55 ECTS aus Philosophie/Ethik im Bachelor
  • Französischkenntnisse: B2 (oder 5 Jahre Schulfrz. (mind. 5 Punkte erreicht))
  • zulassungsfrei
    1. Jahr in Mainz, 2. Jahr in Dijon
  • Mögliche Drittlandaufenthalt (3. Semester):
    • Université de Sherbrooke (Kanada)
    • Università di Bologna (Italien)

M.Sc. Human Factors

Mannheim

M.A. Sprache und Kommunikation
M.Sc. Data Science
M.Sc. Psychologie mit Schwerpunkt Kognitive und Klinische Psychologie

Marburg

M.Sc. Kognitive und Integrative Systemneurowissenschaften
M.Sc. Molekulare und Zelluläre Neurowissenschaften
M.Sc. Data Science
M.A. Klinische Linguistik
M.A. Linguistik: Kognition und Kommunikation

München

Technische Universität München (TUM)

TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology
TUM School of Engineering and Design

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)

LMU Fakultät für Mathematik, Informatik und Statistik
LMU Fakultät für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften
LMU Fakultät für Psychologie und Pädagogik
LMU Fakultät für Biologie
LMU Fakultät für Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft

Offenburg

M.Sc. Renewable Energy and Data Engineering, Hochschule Offenburg
3 semesters
Language: English (1st semester) / German (2nd semester)

Oldenburg

M.Sc. Neuroscience
M.Sc. Neurocognitive Psychology

Potsdam

M.Sc. Cognitive Systems: Language, Learning and Reasoning
M.Sc. Cognitive Science - Embodied Cognition
M.Sc. International Experimental and Clinical Linguistics

Saarbrücken

M.Sc. Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
M.Sc. Visual Computing
M.Sc. Language Science Technology

Siegen

M.Sc. Human Computer Interaction

Stuttgart

M.Sc. Computational Linguistics

Trier

M.A. Computerlinguistik (in German)
M.Sc. Digital Humanities (in German)
Description for both courses above

Tübingen

M.A. Allgemeine Rhetorik

  • in German
  • only requirement: having a Bachelor degree (any)

M.Sc. Computational Linguistics
M.Sc. Kognitionswissenschaft

  • German
  • "zulassungsfrei", d.h. kein Auswahlverfahren aber Voraussetzung von relevantem Bachelor mit mindestens 2.5

M.Sc. Machine Learning
M.Sc. Quantitative Data Science Methods – Psychometrics, Econometrics and Machine Learning

Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience - International Max Planck Research School

Ulm

M.Sc. Cognitive Systems, Ulm
M.Sc. Molecular and Translational Neuroscience, Ulm
M.Sc. Psychologie

  • mostly German
  • notwendig: 45 ECTS in Psychologie (mind. 28 ECTS in Methodenlehre und Diagnostik) (Stand SoSe 21)
  • mind. 2,6 BSc Note (Stand SoSe 21)

M.Sc. Künstliche Intelligenz

  • deutsch
  • Gesamtnote mind. 2,3
  • mind. jeweils 30 ECTS in Informatik und Mathematik

M.Sc. Mathematical Data Science

  • deutsch
  • mindestens 50 ECTS in Mathematik
  • Die Gesamtnote ihres Bachelorabschlusses ist 2.5 oder besser ODER die Note Ihrer Bachelorarbeit ist 2.0 oder besser.

M.Sc. Mathematische Biometrie
Folgende Kriterien können Ihnen bei der Einschätzung helfen, ob ihr Bachelorabschluss
genügend mathematische Inhalte hat:

  • mind. 50 ECTS an mathematischen Modulen erbracht.
  • Sie besitzen mathematische Kenntnisse, die über das hinausgehen, was in einführenden Mathematikmodulen in ihrem Bachelorstudiengang vermittelt wurde.
  • Sie haben ausreichende Kenntnisse in Statistik.

Würzburg

M.Sc. eXtended Artificial Intelligence

  • Language: English
  • Field of AI and XR (= extended reality, AR & VR)

M.Sc. Human-Computer Interaction

  • mind. 60 ECTS studienrelevant
  • schriftliche Eignungsprüfung

Master's programs abroad

International programs

M.Sc. Image Processing and Computer Vision

  • 1st semester: PPCU, Budapest
  • 2nd semester: UAM, Madrid
  • 3rd semester: UB, Bordeaux
  • 4th semester: internship/master thesis

Middle European interdisciplinary master's programme in Cognitive Science (MEi:CogSci)

Joint master's programme offered by:

  • Comenius University in Bratislava
  • Eötvös Loránd University Budapest
  • University of Ljubljana
  • University of Vienna
  • Medical University of Vienna.

EIT Digital, Masterschool

Programmes:

M.Sc. Human Computer Interaction and Design
M.Sc. Data Science
M.Sc. Embedded Systems
M.Sc. Autonomous Systems
M.Sc. Fintech

Completion of two one-year stay at different universities:

  • Aalto University (Aalto), Finland
  • Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Hungary
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm), Sweden
  • Technical University of Berlin (TUB), Germany
  • University of Trento (UNITN), Italy
  • Université Côte d’Azur (UCA), Nice, France

Austria

M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence, Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz
M.Sc. Psycho-, Neuro- und Klinische Linguistik, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg
M.Sc. Verhaltens-, Neuro- und Kognitionsbiologie, Universität Wien

Canada

Industrial Masters in Machine Learning, Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (Mila), Montréal

To study at Mila, you must be supervised by one of its affiliated professors according to the rules of that professor’s home department and university, and the rules of the program for which you are registered.

Requests for supervision are made via a Mila application form, while registrations are administered by the universities themselves.

M.Sc Informatique (program taught in French), Université de Montréal
M.Sc. Computer Science, McGill, Montréal
M.Sc. (Integrated path in) Neurosciences, McGill, Montréal

School of Interactive Art and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

  • Master of Arts
  • Master of Science
  • PhD

Croatia

Masters in Cognitive Sciences | Cognition and the Mind, University of Rijeka

  • 24 month programme
  • Taught in English
  • Scholarships available
  • Annual Tuition Fees for 2023/24: €1025 for both EU and non-EU students

Denmark

M.Sc. Cognitive Science, Aarhus
Taught in English, lots of methods, advanced stats, and programming

M.Sc. IT and Cognition, University of Copenhagen
M.A. Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen
M.Sc. Neuroscience
M.Sc. Social Data Science
Admission requirements: >= 30 ECTS from social sciences courses, at least one practical methods course.

Social sciences courses include, among other things:

  • social statistics courses,
  • ethnography courses
  • other courses on qualitative or quantitative data collection and analysis
  • courses on culture
  • organisation
  • management
  • related topics which involve empirical data collection, processing or analysis

Finland

M.Sc. Data Science, Helsinki
M.Sc. Neuroscience, Helsinki
M.Sc. Theoretical and Computational methods, Helsinki
M.Sc. Linguistic Diversity and Digital Humanities, Helsinki

M.Sc. Human Neuroscience, Turku

France

M.Sc. Cognitive Science, Université Paris Sciences & Lettres
Master 2: Mathematics, Vision, Learning, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Prerequisites: Completion of the 1st year of a master program (Master 1)

M.Sc. Sciences Cognitives - Parcours Cognition Naturelle et Artificielle, Grenoble INP Institut d'ingénierie et de management, in English

M.Sc. Biobanks Complex & Data Management, Nice, in English
M.Sc. Modeling of Neuronal and Cognitive Systems, Sophia Antipolis, in English
M.Sc. Data Sciences & Artificial Intelligence, Sophia Antipolis, in English
M.Sc. Smart-EdTech, Co-Creativity and Digital Tools for Educational Innovation, online, 2 intensive weeks in Nice, in English
M.Sc. Affluencers & Luxury Business, Cannes, in English

M.Sc. Sciences Cognitives, Nice, Language: French

M.Sc. Sciences Cognitives - Ingénierie Cognitive, Interaction, Intelligence Artificielle, Nancy, in French and sometimes English with students from the NLP Erasmus Mundus master degree.

M.Sc. Neurosciences, University of Bordeaux
Ingénieur en cognitique, INP Bordeaux
Language: French

Hungary

M.Sc. Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience, Budapest

India

Language of Instruction: English

M.Sc. Cognitive Science, CBCS Allahabad
M.S. Cognitive Science, IIT Kanpur
M.Sc. Cognitive Science, IIT Delhi
M.Sc. Cognitive Science, IIT Gandhinagar

Ireland

M.Sc. Cognitive Science, University College Dublin

Italy

M.Sc. Cognitive Science, Trento

  • Cognitive Neuroscience track
  • Language and Multimodal Interaction track

Netherlands

M.Sc. Applied Cognitive Neuroscience, Groningen
M.A. Arts, Cognition and Criticism, Groningen
M.Sc. Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences (research), Groningen
M.Sc. Computational Cognitive Science, Groningen
M.Sc. Voice Technology, Groningen/Leeuwarden

M.Sc. Cognitive Neuroscience (research), Leiden

M.Sc. Neuroscience and Cognition, Utrecht

M.Sc. Cognitive Neuroscience (research), Radboud University, Nijmegen
M.Sc. Cognitive Computing, Radboud University, Nijmegen
M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence: Intelligent Technology, Radboud University, Nijmegen
M.Sc. Data Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen

M.Sc. Cognitive Neuropsychology, Amsterdam
M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence, Amsterdam
M.Sc. Brain and Cognitive Sciences (research), Amsterdam
M.Res. Human Language Technology, Amsterdam

M.Sc. Cognitive Neuroscience (1 year), Maastricht
M.Sc. Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience (research, 2 year), Maastricht

Norway

M.Sc. Neuroscience, NTNU Trondheim
M.Sc. Simulation and visualisation, NTNU Trondheim

M.Sc. Data Science, University of Oslo
M.Sc. Informatics: Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Oslo
Requirements:

  • 40 ECTS of basic informatics, of which at least 10 ECTS programming
  • 40 ECTS informatics within at least two of the following topics:
    • Digital system design, embedded systems and FPGA, or computer architecture
    • Robotics, or mechatronics
    • Signal processing, or image processing
    • Machine learning, or artificial intelligence
  • 20 ECTS mathematics, or statistics

M.Sc. Informatics: Language Technology, Oslo
Requirements:
80 ECTS credit informatics, mathematics/statistics, language/linguistics or cognitive science, including 30 ECTS credit of courses at the lowest level (1000 courses) and 20 ECTS credits on advanced level (2000- and 3000 courses) included:

  • 20 ECTS credits programming
  • 20 ECTS credits language technology, or machine learning

Spain

M.Sc. Brain and Cognition, Barcelona
1 year
M.Sc. Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, University of the Basque Country
1 year
M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence, Barcelona
1,5 year, english, cooperation between 3 universities
M.Sc. Biomedical Data Science, Online
2 years, english, cooperation between 7 universities

Sweden

M.Sc. Machine Learning, Stockholm
M.A. Language Science with Specialisation in Bilingualism, Stockholm

M.Sc. Language Technology, Uppsala

M.Sc. Machine Learning and Statistics, Uppsala

very international city, close to Stockholm, small classes, everything in english

M.Sc. Image Analysis and Machine Learning, Uppsala

very international city, close to Stockholm, small classes, everything in english

M.Sc. Bioinformatics, background Computer Science or Biology, Uppsala

very international city, close to Stockholm, small classes, everything in english

M.Sc. Language Technology, Göteborg

M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence, Umeå
M.Sc. Cognitive Science, Umeå

Language of the program is english, fairly heavy on neuro (from what i've heard) /WB

M.Sc. Cognitive Science, Linköping

Unfortunatelly most courses are in swedish, but offers human factors as a specialty /WB, current student

M.Sc. Human Ecology - Culture, Power and Sustainability, Lund

Decolonial/feminist/ecological theory, connection between humans and their environment; very international city, close to Malmö, small classes, everything in english. (I guess credits in critical philo courses would be good but they mostly decide based on the motivational letter)

Switzerland

M.Sc. Neural Systems and Computation, University and ETH Zurich

M.Sc. Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences, University and ETH Zurich

M.Sc. Applied Information and Data Science, HS Luzern

M.Sc. Evolutionary Language Science, University of Zurich


PhD programs (incl. fast track)

Fast track PhD programs are open for both Bachelor and Master students.

Various cities (DE, UK, NE)

(Fast-track) Doctoral program at the Max Planck School of Cognition

Berlin

International Doctoral Program, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin
PhD program in Health Data Science, Charité Berlin
One of the requirements: Secured funding for the duration of the doctorate program.

Frankfurt am Main

Neural Circuits - Fast-track PhD program at the international Max Planck Research School for Neural Circuits and Neuroscience

Göttingen

Fast-track Doctoral Neuroscience Program - International Max Planck Research School
The Master is included in the program - students only interested in a PhD should look further into other doctoral programs in Göttingen

München

Fast-track PhD at Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences
Tracks:

  • Computational Neuroscience track
  • Systemic-Cellular-Molecular Neuroscience track

Tübingen / Stuttgart

International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS)

Fields of research:

  • Computational Cognitive Science
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Vision
  • Control Systems
  • Haptics
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Machine Learning
  • Micro- and Nano-Robotics
  • Perceptual Inference
  • Robotics

Tübingen

Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience / IMPRS for Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
Graduate school Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience
Graduate school Neural & Behavioural Sciences
Graduate school Neural Information Processing

Oldenburg

Neurosensory Science and Systems (fast-track)

Osnabrück

Institute of Cognitive Science - PhD program

Austria

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

  • funded (5 years)
  • large range of research topics
  • possible to apply with a Bachelor's degree

Japan

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology - PhD program

  • Neuroscience is one of the research discipline represented at OIST

Sweden

Linköping University,Department of Computer and Interaction Science

The COIN PhD program at LiU is mostly focused on design or human-robot interaction. Situated/distributed cognition are strong research areas /WB

Note. PhD positions in Sweden are paid positions and require a 1 or 2 years masters degree to be eligible. You apply to them in a similar way to how you would apply to a job. Some information on the application process at LiU /WB

United Kingdom

University of Edinburgh, The Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation

University College London, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit


Theses opportunities

ROSEN Group

Internships

IBM
IBM offers jobs, dual Master's programmes (paid, Master@IBM) and theses opportunity. Cogsci relevance: AI and Data Science.

Deutsches Luft- und Raumfahrt Zentrum

Institut für Medizinische Psychologie und Systemneurowissenschaften, Uniklinikum Münster

Companies that hire CogScis (in Osnabrück)

greenbone

  • hardware and software company. Security and vulnerability management. Networking stuff. Security is a growing market.
  • all English company. international from all over the world
  • they want to use more python in the company (info from June 2021). They are aware of static type like mypy, but don't or only ocasionally or so use them
  • offer thesis projects

VisioLab

  • Startup from Osnabrück, developing an AI based self-checkout PoS (Point of Sale).
  • You can find open positions here.

Feelspace

  • develop a belt with multiple vibrating motors that aid blind people. E.g. navigation through a city. But also augments able-bodied people with an additional "compass sense".
  • mobile app makes heavy use of accessibility features (e.g. text to speech, vibration feedback)
  • orginated from a Project by Peter König (neuroscience).

DeepSight

  • NLP stuff

LobVR

  • Startup: (alcohol) addiction therapy and prevention in VR

Companies that hire CogScis (not in Osnabrück)

Mindpeak

  • image recogntion of cancer cells in x-ray images
  • Felix Faber (CEO) reported about difficulties to do image recognition due to differences in the images from different hospitals among other things (CogSci Futures Alumni Talk 2022)
  • Hamburg

PSIORI

  • doing AI stuff. E.g. computer vision and reinforcement learning to operate a crane: https://crane.psiori.com/
  • Freiburg / Hamburg / Wilhelmshaven

alcemy

  • creating cement with less CO² emissions
  • Berlin

Wissenschaft im Dialog (mostly German) non-profit organization

  • Science communication. Trying to represent science in a fair manner without misrepresentation. Help scientists communicate to the public.
  • They also create platform, and standards for good communication.
  • CogSci Alumni Katharina Stein (Tinka) gave a talk at CogSci Fall School 2022.
  • Berlin

Research institutes with CogSci topics

  • Dr. Katharina Wilmes: Postdoctoral researcher for Neuroscience at Bern University
  • Jun. - Prof. Dr. Sascha Fink: Junior Professor for Neurophilosophy at the Otto von Guerike Universität in Magdeburg
  • PhD Carlos Zednik: Assistant Professor for Philosophy of AI at TU Eindhoven
  • PhD Marlene Meyer & Dr. Sarah Jessen: Post doctoral fellow in the BabyBRAIN group at Radboud University Nijmegen & Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Neurology at University of Lübeck
  • Jan Hendrik Kirchner: PhD Candidate, International Max Planck Research School

CogSci alumni you can contact

  • André Kovac Data Scientist & Software Engineer (also freelance web & react native development)
  • Patrick Schulz (Data Scientist)
  • Anke Haas Consultant Cognitive Computing at IBM Deutschland

Cogsci (Alumni) Network

  • We provide a communication and networking platform for alumni and current students, faculty, and staff
  • We support and host alumni and student events
  • We support students in their early academic careers by granting subsidies for visiting conferences and other academic events
  • We support student initiatives and innovative ideas in the field of Cognitive Science

Further information

Study opportunities - Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft e.V.
Academic programs - Cognitive Science Society
Similar list found on the internet

Neuroschools - 2020
Studienführer Neurowissenschaften - Spektrum

Landkarte Künstliche Intelligenz und Data Science in Deutschland

Network of European Neuroscience Schools FENS