Master der Verkehrswissenschaften

Transportation drives our society

A modern and international transport system is important for moving people, goods, and information in a local, regional, and (inter)national context. Moreover, it is connected to economic growth! A continuous increase in traffic volumes, for passenger transport as well as freight forwarding transport, leads to major challenges concerning land use, impact on urban areas, traffic safety issues, traffic flow, atmospheric pollution, and travel behavior.

A unique and multidisciplinary master's program

The international master’s program of Transportation Sciences of Hasselt University is a multidisciplinary master’s program, which trains students to identify transportation and traffic safety issues and come up with solutions themselves, taking into account several parameters: economy, society, urban development, environment, and infrastructure. Several transport and traffic safety issues are thus highlighted in an overall multidisciplinary manner.

A pronounced international orientation

Since transportation is a cross-border field, it is also important to focus on international aspects of this domain. As a Master in Transportation Sciences, we offer you an opportunity to regularly exchange views with experts from home and abroad. Teachers within the master’s program are regarded as experts in their field - both at home and abroad. Students can also exchange views and experiences with fellow international students in the program.

Key Benefits

• High-quality international master program of 2 years or 120 ECTS, fully accredited
• Multi-disciplinary take on transportation and traffic safety, including psychological, social, urban, environmental, and infrastructural aspects
• Students gain professional experience through an (international) înternship
• Taught by renowned professors from a leading university and Transportation Research Institute specializing in transportation and traffic safety
• In the heart of Europe : in between Germany, the Netherlands, France, and the UK
• Low tuition fees for Belgian, EU, and international students

Hasselt University is a young, dynamic centre of expertise for teaching, research, and service provision. It regards it as its social responsibility to contribute actively to a sustainable and innovative region. It aspires to be a hub in this innovation web. Hasselt University, therefore, attaches great importance to cooperation with other centres of expertise, companies, government agencies and organizations in Limburg and beyond.

As one of the drivers of regional innovation, Hasselt University focuses specifically on:

• educating students so that they become highly skilled, employable professionals;
• conducting applied and fundamental research in specific fields and encouraging practical applications from that research;
• spreading its knowledge and expertise through collaboration with industry and other external partners;
• developing foreign partnerships.

Basic principles in the implementation of these key roles are academic and scientific freedom, social engagement, attention to ethical standards and awareness of wider implications – without ideological discrimination.

For Hasselt University, the development of the human potential of all its students and staff comes first.

Facts and figures

6.433 students

604 doctoral students (of which 43% international students)

1.400 members of staff

• independent academic staff
• assisting academic staff
• administrative and technical staff

2 campuses

• Diepenbeek Campus
• Hasselt Campus

17 Bachelor programmes

30 Master programmes (5 English taught)

6 faculties + 2 school

• Architecture and Arts
• Business Management
• Medicine and Life Sciences
• Engineering Technology
• Law
• Rehabilitation Sciences
• Sciences
• • School of Transportation Sciences
• • School of Educational Studies

4 Research institutes + 3 Researh Centres

• Biomedical Research Institute (BIOMED)
• Data Science Institute (Censtat)
• Institute for Materials Research (imo-imomec)
• Institute for Environmental Sciences (CMK)
• Expertise Centre for Digital Media (EDM)
• Transportation Research Centre (IMOB)
• Limburg Clinical Research Centre (LCRC)