Social Protection (MSc)

Programme Contents

The Master’s programme “Social Protection” offers an inter-disciplinary and in-depth study of social protection systems. Graduates will be able to analyze and reform systems that are effective, affordable, and flexible enough to meet future socio-economic challenges.

We want our graduates to

• Gain deeper insights into the constitutive elements, driving forces, and instruments of social protection systems, covering low-, middle- and high income countries
• Know how to use different methods of analysis for designing and re-organizing social protection systems
• Have a solid understanding of how to institutionalize and sustainably finance social protection systems
• Be comfortable using state-of-the-art management methods to implement interventions effectively and efficiently
• Establish a network of national and international experts

Career Prospects

Graduates will have career prospects in a wide variety of sectors, i.e. as policy planners, managers, and advisors to

• Ministries
• Government agencies
• Social security institutions
• NGOs
• International (development) organisations
• Private insurance companies and many more