Occupational fields
After successfully completing the Master's degree programme in Digital Humanities, you will have a wide range of academic and professional prospects in a growing, interdisciplinary field.
Career opportunities
As a graduate, you will work in areas where digital methods meet humanities, cultural or social science issues. Typical fields of activity are
- Cultural and memory institutions
Digitisation, digital collections, metadata management, digital exhibition development - Research and project work
Cultural analytics, computational literary studies, digital musicology, digital film studies, computational social studies, empirical cultural studies, digital editions, scientific infrastructure projects - Information and knowledge management
Research analytics, information processing, content strategies - Data and language processing
Text mining, natural language processing, annotation and analysis projects - User experience & digital communication
UX research, web and interaction design, evaluation of digital offerings - Data-related activities in companies or NGOs
Data analysis, data literacy, data-based decision support - By combining expertise in the humanities with digital methods, you will have a profile that is increasingly in demand in cultural institutions, research institutions, media, administration and data-oriented organisations.
- A career in science
The degree programme offers numerous opportunities for research-oriented specialisation - for example through project seminars and the Master's thesis. This prepares you well for a doctorate in digital humanities or a related humanities or information science subject.