MA in Applied Cognitive Science
A joint graduate programme of two University of Zagreb faculties, built around one question: what can you do once you understand how minds work?
A joint graduate programme of two University of Zagreb faculties, built around one question: what can you do once you understand how minds work?
Few professionals move between a laboratory setting, a codebase and a meeting without losing the thread. The purpose of this degree is training people who do.
Cognitive science opens many doors. The programme studied here is built so that the student can choose one and walk through it purposefully. Modules to dive deep into, partner projects to resolve, or an original thesis — we confront the discipline in many different ways, applying the knowledge we gain to solve actual problems.
Four semesters across two faculties, ending in a thesis of your own.
An electrical engineer, a chemist and a linguist walk into a bar…
One of the guiding ideas in designing the programme was to make the most of the interdisciplinarity of the field, and of the very different educational backgrounds our students arrive with. To do this, the programme runs along three dimensions at once.
You go deep in something. The startup electives in the first year exist so that whatever you did not study as an undergraduate stops being a gap, and whatever you did study can go further.
You learn to work with people whose methods are not your own — a skill with its own literature, its own failure modes, and a place on the timetable.
You collaborate, innovate and communicate in a business setting, and you do project-based and problem-based work with real partners, from the first year through to the thesis.
Before any of this was designed, two related standards were written: the Standard of Occupation and the Standard of Qualification. That work is why the programme is rooted in what the market needs, and why its content follows what employers, entrepreneurs and innovators told us they could not find.
You will be taught by two faculties at once, choose most of your own path through six modules, and finish by making something that did not exist before.
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