Your future
After your bachelor's, you can choose to follow a master’s programme, where you can further develop your strengths and interests. Of course, you can also enter a master’s programme at another Maastricht faculty or at another university.
Master’s programmes
Maastricht University offers several programmes with an excellent fit to yourbachelor's degree in Arts & Culture. You can be admitted to these programmes without having to fulfil additional requirements:
Arts and Heritage: Policy, Management and Education
Kunst en Erfgoed: Beleid, Management en Educatie
Contemporary Literature and Arts
Modern Political Culture: Ideas and Discourses in Context
The following programmes are also good fits for Arts and Culture graduates. They may have additional admission requirements:
Media Studies: Digital Cultures
European Studies on Society, Science and Technology
Cultures of Arts, Science and Technology Research
Career prospects
As a graduate of the Arts and Culture programme, you will have many career opportunities. Your deep understanding of contemporary challenges and their historical development, your researcher mentality and ability to approach complex problems from a variety of perspectives, and your practical skills, such as discussion leadership, communication and life-long learning, will allow you to work across a wide range of sectors and jobs, including:
- Policy advisor for governmental and non-governmental organisations,
- Media personality, editor, writer, content manager for radio, TV, newspapers, magazines, online platforms.
- Cultural entrepreneur, programmer or curator for cultural institutions such as museums, galleries or publishing organisations
- Politics, consultancy, education or scientific research
Career paths for Arts and Culture graduates
- arts and culture
- management and administration
- marketing and communications
- journalism
- politics and non-governmental organisations
Alumni @ work
Yasmin Gerardts
Heritage Advisor at the province of Flevoland
Year of Graduation: 2019
In this video alumna Yasmin Gerardts tells us more about her experience with the BA Arts and Culture.
Shelly Tsui
PhD Candidate, Eindhoven University of Technology
Year of graduation: 2016
I was drawn to two features that I think made the programme very unique: the cultural lens to studying societal issues, and the emphasis on interdisciplinarity.
Eline Schmeets
Policy Advisor, Maastricht University
Year of graduation: 2014
I am really glad I decided to study Arts and Culture at Maastricht University. Through this programme I have not only learned a lot about the content of the different courses I took, but I have also acquired a number of valuable skills that are useful in a lot of other contexts as well.
Kaatje Lomme
Project Manager, National Institute for Health Research, London
Year of graduation: 2010
When I was in my last year of secondary school I visited a number of universities. As my brother had studied Arts and Culture at Maastricht University and was very positive about it I decided to visit the open day. I had never been to Maastricht before and really liked the city and the university.
Katja Weitering
Head of the Project Office. Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht
Year of Graduation: 1999
Since 2000 I am employed in the museum sector. In recent years, the domain of museums and heritage has changed radically. The commercialisation of cultural institutions, increasing emphasis on public participation and debates on inclusiveness and postcolonial perspectives are a few examples.
Lotte van Boxem
Professional Photographer
Year of Graduation: 2005
In this video Lotte van Boxem tells you more about her experience as an alumna of Arts & Culture and how her study helped her in her career. Lotte continued her studies at the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences with the master's programme European Studies on Society, Science and Technology.
