(Maastricht University), founded in
1976 , is the second youngest university in the
Netherlands . It has about 11.500 students and 3000 employees at the moment, 30% of whom are not Dutch.
About half of the courses offered are in
Dutch , the other half in
English , such as Business Administration (''International Business'') at the Faculty of
Economics , (
European Studies ) at the Faculty of Arts and Culture and all the course at the University College Maastricht.
The university is known for its and the
University Of Southern California (USC) at the beginning of 2006.
Various other publications have also rated the university to be the best in the Netherlands. The University is currently accredited by both (
press release ), a rare feat among European universities.
- Faculty of Arts and Culture
- Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
- Faculty of General Sciences
- Faculty of Health Sciences
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Psychology
- Faculty of Life Sciences
- Universiteit Maastricht Business School
- Maastricht Graduate School of Governance (MGSoG)
- Maastricht University College
- CaRe Netherlands School of Primary Care Research
- EPP Experimental Psychopathology
- EURON EUROpean Graduate School of Neuroscience
- Heart and Vascular diseases
- Ius Commune
- 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 IKAT
- School for Human Rights Research
- VLAG Nutrition, food Technology, Agro-biotechnology and Health
- WTMC Netherlands Graduate School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture
- 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 Integrated assessment & Sustainable development
- 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 assosiated institutes (
research website )
