The Master program Metropolitan Analysis, Design and Engineering (MSc MADE) focuses on our cities and metropolitan regions, which face the challenges of sustainability and quality of life in a fast urbanising world. Issues of mobility and logistics, water and waste management, energy and food security, health and wellbeing are at risk. Therefore, MSc MADE brings together multidisciplinary teams of students in Amsterdam to address questions such as: How to keep our metropoles connected? How to safeguard its vitality? How to aim for the circular city?
At the heart of the AMS Institute's educational activities is the two-year master program MSc MADE. MSc MADE aims to provide innovative education and deliver excellent, interdisciplinary engineers with the theoretical grounding and practical skills to deal with the complex challenges of cities. The two-year master program will be offered as a joint degree program in Amsterdam by Wageningen University & Research and Delft University of Technology.
“Urban challenges demand smart and interdisciplinary solutions that are developed in close collaboration with both citizens and industry. In turn, these challenges require urban professionals who see opportunities in the most complex sustainable problems.”
Nina Bohm
Research Fellow
What you will learn
Students learn how to act in an environment where a variety of systems and networks shape the metropolitan region and flows in the city, and where a broad range of human actors and entities are influencing the whole. Students learn how to create understanding by making use of new technologies, enabling a much faster and accurate use of data on cities, and at larger scales than ever before.
Students learn the competencies of entrepreneurial and innovative thinking and acting in order to skill themselves as unique inter- and trans-disciplinary analyst, designer and engineer in the metropolitan environment. In addition, tailor-made, self-designed tracks in Wageningen or/and Delft facilitate specialization. Graduation projects are carried out in the second year. The living laboratory of Amsterdam supports cooperation with one of the private or public partners in the Amsterdam metropolitan region, or a more individual entrepreneurial project.
The two-year MSc MADE program is a combination of in-situ and online education, a thorough training in academic skills and project work, connected to the research portfolio of AMS Institute and our industrial and societal partners.
“Entrepreneurship is a vehicle for students to truly work on actionable ‘solutions’ for metropolitan challenges, and learn to continuously redefine the context they work in.”
Thomas Lans, Course Coordinator MSc MADE
After graduation
As an MSc MADE graduate you will be an expert on the one hand and an integrator on the other, able to create synergy between specialists from other disciplinary backgrounds. You will be a boundary spanner at a firm or at a government, a pioneering researcher aiming for a PhD, or an innovator ready to start your own business.
“It is important to challenge, educate and create awareness for students about the current problems in the world and give them tools to take action for a sustainable future.”
Gwenhwyfar Spil, MSc MADE student
Application and admission
Please note that one of the additional requirements for starting the master is that you have successfully finalized the self-paced MOOC Sustainable Urban Development, Discover Advanced Metropolitan Solutions, launched in March 2017. This MOOC is at the same time a good preparation for the master itself. You can show proof of this at a later stage by handing in the verified Edx certificate.
For application, please visit the Wageningen University & Research website.
MADE in the news
Amsterdamse studenten storten zich op grootstedelijke problemen, Het Parool (22-08-2017)
Masteropleiding gebruikt Amsterdam als laboratorium, Het Parool (04-03-2018)
Urban planners of the future, Resource (29-03-2018)