Universiteit Maastricht Totally Explained

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Universiteit Maastricht (abbreviation: UM) (or in the English language: Maastricht University), founded in 1976, is the second youngest university in the Netherlands, and consistently ranks among the top universities in The Netherlands in terms of education.
Maastricht University has about 11.500 students and 3000 employees, 30% of whom are foreign students. The university is renowned for its Problem-based learning method as an innovative way of teaching. About half of the bachelors programmes are fully offered in English, while the other half is taught in Dutch. Most of the postgraduate programmes are in English.

Rankings

The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) university ranking: place 111 in 2007; 172 in 2006. In the category foreign students, Maastricht University scored 99/100 (cf. Harvard 91/100).

Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OC&W): In 2004, Maastricht University was ranked first (of all Dutch Universities) in a report on quality of education (press release

). In 2005, the university came in first again. From 2006 onwards, the ministry no longer publishes a ranking list.

Keuzegids Hoger Onderwijs: In 2006, eight of the twelve bachelor programmes were designated as best programme in the Netherlands by students (European Studies, Economics, Econometrics, International Business, Psychology, Medicine, Health Sciences and Molecular Life Sciences). From the other four programmes, three came in second place.

Dutch Magazine Elservier: At the beginning of the academic year 2005-2006 the university was once again ranked number one in the Netherlands by the Dutch publication Elsevier. In 2007 many degrees were again recognized as best in the Netherlands with exceptional grades given to the international opportunities in the International Business and Economics degrees.

German Magazine Wirtschaftswoche: In 2005, the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration was regarded better than the same faculty at Oxford University (website

Financial Times: In 2007 the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FEBA) participated in the Financial Times’ ranking for Masters in Management programmes for the first time and its International Business programme scores a 28th place in the top 40 of European institutes that offer such programmes: website

. The programme even made the 4th place on the list "Best in International Business" and 3rd in the category "Value for Money" website

Faculties

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences offers two bachelor programmes, seven undergraduate minors, eight postgraduate programmes, and has a Graduate School for Ph.D. students. These programmes are:

B.A.: Arts and Culture, European Studies

Minor: Arts and Culture, Crucial Differences, European Studies, Globalisation and Diversity, Governing Europe, Law and Policy Making, Living with the Life Sciences

M.A.: Analysing Europe, European Studies, European Public Affairs, Arts and Heritage: Policy, Management and Education, European Studies on Society, Science and Technology, Arts and Sciences, Media Culture,

CM.Phil: Cultures of Arts, Science and Technology

Ph.D.: Arts and Social Sciences

Faculty of Economics and Business Administration / Business School

The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration is currently accredited by EQUIS (press release

), AACSB (press release

) and Association of MBAs (AMBA). This Triple Crown accreditation has only been achieved by 28 other business schools, including INSEAD, IMD and the London Business School. Students from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration have also successfully participated in the case competitions at McGill University (MMICC) and the University of Southern California (USC) in 2006 (website

). In 2007, the university was once again invited and partipated at CBS Case Competition ((External Link

)).
The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration is also the home of the Universiteit Maastricht Business School.

Faculty of Humanities and Sciences (formerly Faculty of General Sciences)

Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences

Faculty of Law

Faculty of Psychology

Maastricht Graduate School of Governance (MGSoG)

University College Maastricht

Research Schools and institutes

Main research schools

CaRe Netherlands School of Primary Care Research

CARIM http://carim.unimaas.nl (Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht) Heart and Vascular diseases

EPP Research School Experimental Psychopathology

EURON EUROpean Graduate School of Neuroscience

Ius Commune (External Link

)

METEOR Maastricht Research School of Economics of Technology and Organisations The UM participates in the following research schools:

Huizinga Institute UM participation in the research institute CWS

ICO UM participation in the research Institute of Medical Education

iBME integrated Biomedical Engineering. Co-operation with the University of Twente.

SIKS UM participation in the research institute MICC

School for Human Rights Research [www.law.uu.nl/english/orm/]

VLAG Nutrition, food Technology, Agro-biotechnology and Health

WTMC Netherlands Graduate School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture

Research institutes

CAPHRI Care and Public Health Research Institute

CARIM Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht

CWS Arts and Culture Research

EPP Experimental Psychopathology

GROW Research Institute Growth & Development

H&G Maastricht Brain & Behaviour Institute.

ICIS International Centre for Integrative Studies

MICC Maastricht ICT Competence Center (former: IKAT Institute for Knowledge and Agent Technology)

Maastricht Centre for Human Rights

METRO Maastricht European Institute for Transnational Law Research

METEOR Maastricht Research Institute/School of Economics and Organizations

NUTRIM Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute Maastricht

ROA Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market

UNU-MERIT (Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology), UNU-MERIT is also part of the United Nations University There are faculty research units and associated institutes (research website

)

Notable Professors

Wiebe Bijker: Professor of Technology and Society, member of the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) and together with Trevor Pinch the founder of Social Construction of Technology (SCOT)

Franz Palm: Professor of Econometrics, member of the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)

Maurits Allessie: Professor of Physiology, member of the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)

Andre Knottnerus: Professor of General Practice, member of the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), President of the Health Council of the Netherlands

Luc Soete: Professor of General Economics, Director of research institute UNU-MERIT (which is also part of the United Nations University), member of the group of key thinkers for the Lisbon Strategy

Geert Hofstede: Emeritus Professor of Organizational Anthropology and International Management. Founder of Institute for Research on Intercultural Cooperation (IRIC)

John Hagedoorn: Professor of Strategy and International Business and professorial fellow with the United Nations University - MERIT

Theo van Boven: Profesor Emeritus of International Law, Former UN Director for human rights and UN Special Rapporteur for Torture

Rainer Goebel: Professor of Neurocognition, Director of the Maastricht Brain Imaging centre, Winner of the German Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz award for cognitive sciences in 1993Further Information

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