In total, international students can choose from more than 30 Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes offered by eight faculties. Most international students study at the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Social Studies and the Faculty of Economics and Administration. However, a large number of foreign students also study at the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Pharmacy and the Faculty of Informatics. And to attract even more talented students from abroad, Masaryk University is opening additional degree programmes that respond to global trends and labour market demand.
Applied Health Economics programme
For example, a new Master’s programme in Applied Health Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Administration is unique not only in the country but also across Europe. It will welcome its first students in September 2025 and will be taught by faculty members from six MU faculties. The main aim of the programme is to provide students with a comprehensive education in health economics, public health, epidemiology, pharmacy, health law and health services.
“There are very few professionals with such an interdisciplinary skill set, although more and more healthcare providers and insurance companies are recognising their importance. That’s why we’ve created this programme, which allows students to specialise in different areas – for example, data analysis, health policy development and evaluation, and health technology assessment. This will provide our graduates with a wide range of practical opportunities and the ability to work in highlevel positions,” says programme guarantor Jana Soukopová.
A new Data Analytics programme to attract data analysts
The new Data Analytics programme, which welcomed the first students to the Faculty of Science in September, is also designed to respond to emerging labour market trends. Designed for future data professionals, the programme addresses the need for an increasing number of businesses and corporations to integrate data science into their structures. Several students from Ukraine, who have been granted temporary protection in the Czech Republic and are exempt from tuition fees, have also started studying in the programme.
“We are opening the programme in a hybrid form and our main motivation is to reach a specific target group that until recently did not exist in populations around the world: young digital nomads who are already successful in their field. For these people, it is no longer desirable to start studying a standard degree programme because they are no longer beginners and cannot afford to spend so much time at school. They want to work first and study second, not the other way round,” says Jan Slovák from the Faculty of Science, who is responsible for the programme.
The new interdisciplinary programme will provide such students with the mathematical foundations and an applied view of data analysis, while helping them acquire the data-based thinking and practical problem-solving skills they need. The new programme will also work closely with the commercial sector, connecting students with professional and industry communities.
In addition to Data Analytics, the Faculty of Science will also open a new Biology and Biochemistry Bachelor's programme and a new Biochemical and Cellular Technologies follow-up Master’s programme.
Seven programmes completed their first year
Applied Health Economics master’s is not the only programme the Faculty of Economics and Administration will launch. The first year of teaching has been completed by the Master’s degree programme Regional Development and Tourism as well as the inter-university degree programme Public Administration (Administration publique), conducted in cooperation with Université de Rennes in France.
Last September, the Faculty of Education also welcomed new students to its new programme Education for Diversity and Inclusion, which combines approaches from social pedagogy, psychology and special and inclusive pedagogy. The Faculty of Science also welcomed its first students to the Geography of Global Environmental Change programme, which focuses on the geographical aspects of climate change and related phenomena.
The Faculty of Social Studies has been teaching two new programmes since last September – Global Challenges: Society, Politics, Environment; and Politics, Media, and Communication. The most recent programme to expand the study offerings at the Faculty of Arts last year was the Bachelor’s programme Culture, Media and Performing Arts, which combines history, film, theatre and media studies in a Central European context. Last year was thus a record-breaking year in terms of new study programmes opened at Masaryk University