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Maastricht University (abbreviated as UM; nl, Universiteit Maastricht) is a
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in
Maastricht Maastricht ( , , ; li, Mestreech ; french: Maestricht ; es, Mastrique ) is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It is the capital and largest city of the province of Limburg. Maastricht is located on both sides of the ...
, Netherlands. Founded in 1976, it is the second youngest of the thirteen
Dutch universities Dutch universities are supported by state funding (with the exception of University Nyenrode) so that universities do not have to rely on private funding to facilitate tuition. All citizens of the Netherlands who complete high school at the pre-a ...
. In 2021, 22,383 students studied at Maastricht University, 56% of whom were foreign students, with over 4,000 employees. About half of the
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's programmes are fully offered in
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, while the other half is taught wholly or partly in
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. Most of the
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's and
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programmes are in English. Besides traditional programmes, Maastricht University also has three honours liberal arts colleges:
University College Maastricht University College Maastricht (UCM) is an English language, internationally oriented, liberal arts and sciences college housed in the 15th century ''Nieuwenhof'' monastery in Maastricht, Netherlands. Founded in 2002, it is the second of its kind ...
and the
Maastricht Science Programme Maastricht Science Programme (abbreviated as MSP) is an English language liberal arts and sciences programme, founded in 2010. The programme is part of Maastricht University ( nl, Universiteit Maastricht) and offers an honours programme. It is l ...
in the same liberal arts tradition. The satellite
University College Venlo University College Venlo, often referred to as UCV, is a bachelor programme offered at the satellite location of Maastricht University, Campus Venlo. It welcomed its first students in September 2015. UCV was ranked second at the national Elsevier ...
opened in 2015. Maastricht University regularly ranks as one of Europe's leading universities. The university has been placed in the top 300 universities in the world by five major ranking tables. Maastricht University was at 88th place in the Times Higher Education World Ranking in 2016 (127th as of 2021), and 4th among Young Universities (6th in 2021). Amongst others, Maastricht University's master's programme in International Business is ranked 25, being in the top 25 of the best business programmes in the world according to the
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, and its Law Faculty is ranked in 3rd place within the European Union and 23rd worldwide by the Times Higher Education World Ranking for the 2021-2022 period. In 2013, Maastricht University was the second Dutch university to be rewarded the ‘Distinctive Quality Feature for Internationalisation’ by the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO).


History

Maastricht University was officially established in 1976. Faced with a shortage of medical professionals, the Dutch government decided in the late 1960s that a new public institution of higher education was needed in order to expand the country's medical training facilities. Political leaders in the province of
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, most notably Sjeng Tans, the chairman of the Labour Party and former member of the Limburg provincial council and Maastricht city council, successfully lobbied for the new medical school to be established in Maastricht. This academic institution would be vital to sustain the intellectual life of the city, and indeed the whole province. Moreover, it was argued that the establishment of a university in Maastricht could contribute to the government's restructuring efforts in this part of the Netherlands, which was experiencing economic challenges following the collapse of the Limburg coal mining industry. The newly established school chose not to await official recognition but to start its educational programme in September 1974, adopting an innovative approach to academic education in the form of
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. About 50 students enrolled in the first academic year. By the end of 1975, the
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eventually passed the statute needed for the institution to acquire national educational funds and to be able to award academic degrees. The new university, named ''Rijksuniversiteit Limburg'' (State University of Limburg), was officially established on the 9th of January 1976, when
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signed the university's founding charter at a ceremony in the
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. Sjeng Tans became the university's first president. Soon after its establishment, the university gained political support to increase its funding and to expand into other academic fields. The Faculty of Law was created in 1981, followed by the Faculty of Economics in 1984. In 1994, the Faculty of Arts and Culture and one year later the Faculty of Psychology were established. The Faculty of Humanities and Sciences started in 2005, containing a variety of organisational units, such as the Department of Knowledge Engineering and the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance. Together with the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (established in 2007 as a merger between the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine) Maastricht University currently has six faculties. The university was renamed ''Universiteit Maastricht'' in 1996 and added its English-language name in 2008. As of 2010, Maastricht University consists of six faculties offering 17 bachelor programmes, 56 master programmes and several Ph.D. programmes.


2019 cyber attack

On December 23, 2019, Maastricht University suffered a major cyber-attack, more specifically a Microsoft Windows ransomware attack using "Clop". The ransomware encrypted almost all Windows systems used by Maastricht University, making it impossible for students and staff members to access any university online services during the Christmas break. A ransom was set from the offenders, which allowed a decryption of the university systems after Maastricht University paid $217,000 in a
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transfer. The lessons resumed with no delays on the 6th of January, with most online services again available to both students and staff members.


Campuses

Maastricht University is located in buildings in two separate locations in Maastricht. The arts, humanities and social science departments are housed in a number of historic buildings in the city center, while psychology, the medical and life sciences are based in the modern Randwyck campus on the outskirts of the city.


City Centre Campuses

The university's arts, humanities and social sciences faculties are located in Maastricht's city centre, west of the river
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. Most of the university's inner city properties have official monumental status. As many of these buildings were facing abandonment at the time of their acquirement, the development of an urban university campus has contributed to the preservation and liveliness of Maastricht's historic city centre.Beijer, Hans et al. (2006). ''MonUMent'', published to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of Maastricht University.


University buildings in Jekerkwartier

The first building that was obtained by the university was the former
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monastery and seminary at Tongersestraat, largely dating from the 1930s. Here, in 1974 the newly established medical school started. After the Faculty of Medicine moved to premises closer to the newly constructed university hospital, the Jesuit monastery became home to the Faculty of Economy, which is now the university's largest academic unit in terms of student numbers. The building was expanded in the 1990s to include the university restaurant (''mensa'' in Dutch) and a large lecture hall designed by Dutch architect
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. The Faculty of Law is housed in the building known as ''Oud Gouvernement'' in Bouillonstraat, which was completed in 1935 as the provincial government building. It was acquired by the UM in 1986 after the provincial government had moved to its new premises on the river
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in the southeastern part of the city. Opposite lies ''Slijpe Court'', a 17th-century mansion that in 2002 was refurbished to house the Department of Knowledge Engineering of the Faculty of Humanities and Science. The university's administrative headquarters is located at ''Minderbroedersberg'', in a former
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monastery, which dates back to 1699 and was later used as a court house and prison. The UM acquired the building in order to make it their administrative center in 1999. The Minderbroedersberg, with its ''Aula'' (main hall), also serves as the university's primary location for official academic ceremonies, such as Ph.D. conferrals. At the bottom of the hill lies the former convent of the ''Bonnefanten'', now the university's Student Service Center, as well as a visitor center, including a gift shop. This building, which dates back to 1627, served as a convent for nuns originally from
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who were referred to as "''bons enfants''", "good children". In the twentieth century, the city's art museum was established here and later took its name from the building,
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. In 1979 the building became the main branch of the university library, until the library moved to its current location. The oldest part of the library building at Grote Looiersstraat was constructed in 1755 and served as the city's
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and military hospital. In the 1970s, the city's public library was built in the garden. In 1999 the city library moved to its current location at Centre Ceramique. The old library was then acquired by the UM. After major renovation and expansion works, the university library relocated here in 2003.
University College Maastricht University College Maastricht (UCM) is an English language, internationally oriented, liberal arts and sciences college housed in the 15th century ''Nieuwenhof'' monastery in Maastricht, Netherlands. Founded in 2002, it is the second of its kind ...
is located at Zwingelput in a 15th-century
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, named ''Nieuwenhof''.
Maastricht Science College Maastricht Science Programme (abbreviated as MSP) is an English language liberal arts and sciences programme, founded in 2010. The programme is part of Maastricht University ( nl, Universiteit Maastricht) and offers an honours programme. It is ...
has its new home since 2012 in the renovated ''Hustinx Mansion'' in Kapoenstraat, which has a richly ornamented façade and a courtyard that is now covered. Since 2013, the university has acquired several buildings on the site of the former Tapijn barracks, adjacent to the city park (''Stadspark''). Although outside the medieval centre, the area is still part of the Jekerkwartier. In 2019 the main U-shaped buildings were refurbished and enlarged with an underground atrium. They now house UM Learning Spaces. Other buildings at the Tapijn Campus are used temporarily by Knowledge Engineering and to help start-up enterprises. File:Maastricht, Tongersestraat02.jpg, Tongersestraat: former Jesuit Monastery, School of Economics File:University - Maastricht, Holland - panoramio.jpg, Bouillonstraat: former provincial parliament, Faculty of Law File:UM, Minderbroedersberg.jpg, Minderbroedersberg: former Franciscan Church, administrative seat File:2018-Maastricht, Bonnefantenklooster, Ezelmarkt.jpg, Ezelmarkt: former Bonnefanten Monastery, Student Service Centre


University buildings elsewhere in the city centre

Several other university institutions are housed in buildings elsewhere in the city centre. The UM Language Centre is based in an old canon's house at Sint Servaasklooster. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) currently occupies three adjacent buildings on Grote Gracht. '' Soiron Mansion'', built by the architect Matthias Soiron for his two brothers, canons of Saint Servatius Church, the former Ursuline girls schools, and ''Tilly Court'', built for the Count of Tilly, the military governor of Maastricht, both date from the 18th century. File:Maastricht, Sint Servaasklooster 04.jpg, Sint Servaasklooster: canon's house, Language Centre File:Maastricht - rijksmonument 27014 - Grote Gracht 82 20100718.jpg, Grote Gracht: Soiron Mansion, FASoS File:GroteGracht37.jpg, Grote Gracht: Ursuline schools, FASoS File:Maastricht - rijksmonument 27017 - Hof van Tilly - Grote Gracht 90-92 20100516.jpg, Grote Gracht: Tilly Mansion, FASoS


Randwyck Campus

The Randwyck campus was developed from the 1970s onwards and has become the center for the university's psychology, health, medicine and life science activities. Here, plans for the Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus are aimed at strengthening the scientific and economic impact of Randwyck. The Randwyck and Brightlands campuses are not to be confused with the failed Calatrava Campus, also in Randwyck, which in 2008 had to be abandoned after construction had already begun, because the cost spiraled out of control. The focal point for the Randwyck campus is the academic hospital (azM), which moved here from its original location on the West bank of the
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river in 1992. Some of university buildings are physically connected to the hospital, built in the 1990s. The university and the AZM work together in the Maastricht University Medical Center+, established in 2008. In 2019, UM bought an existing office blok in Paul-Henri Spaaklaan, which after refurbishment will house the Department of Knowledge Engineering. File:2019 Maastricht-Randwyck, MUMC+ (11).jpg, Faculty of Medicine File:2019 Maastricht-Randwyck, MUMC+ (03).jpg, University hospital File:Maastricht, Randwyck, UM building1.jpg, Peter Debyeplein 1 File:2019 Maastricht-Randwyck, Paul-Henri Spaaklaan 1 (2).jpg, Paul-Henri Spaaklaan 1


Satellite campuses

In recent years, the university has opened offices in the northern Limburg city of
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, the Belgian capital of
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and the city of
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. The
Maastricht University, Campus Venlo Maastricht University Campus Venlo is a satellite campus of Maastricht University located in Venlo, approximately 80 km north of Maastricht. History Maastricht University opened a front-office in Venlo in 1999 to strengthen the knowledge e ...
is located in the renovated "Raad van Arbeid" building at Nassaustraat, close to the center of
Venlo Venlo () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the southeastern Netherlands, close to the border with Germany. It is situated in the province of Limburg (Netherland ...
. Maastricht University currently offers two Master's programmes (Global Supply Chain Management, and Health Food Innovation Management) and a Bachelor's programme (University College Venlo) at this campus . Courses at
University College Venlo University College Venlo, often referred to as UCV, is a bachelor programme offered at the satellite location of Maastricht University, Campus Venlo. It welcomed its first students in September 2015. UCV was ranked second at the national Elsevier ...
started in September 2015.


Organisation


Governance

At the central level, the university is governed by the Executive Board, consisting of a president, a vice-president and a rector. The Executive Board appoints faculty deans, other administrators and professors and has general management responsibilities. It is advised by the Supervisory Council that vets for instance the budget. The University Council, an elected body representing all members of staff and students at the university, has a limited number of decision-making powers as well as general advising responsibilities regarding the university's teaching and research programmes and in organisational and budgetary matters. Maastricht University's teaching and research programmes are primarily carried out along the lines of faculties. Within faculties, teaching and research activities may be further decentralised through departments, schools, institutes or colleges. The names of organisational (sub)units, however, do not necessarily indicate their position within the university's organisational hierarchy. In 2009, for example, the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration was renamed School of Business and Economics, even though it maintains the rank of a faculty. The Board of Deans, consisting of all faculty deans and the Rector, acts as a coordinating and consulting body at the central level and is responsible for awarding doctoral degrees and honorary doctorates.


Faculties


Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences

The Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML) was established in 2007 as a merger between the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine. The latter was the first faculty to be established at Maastricht University. In 1980 the Faculty of Health Sciences was founded. The broad range of disciplines it offered in
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s, made the faculty unique, not only in the Netherlands, but also in Europe. The format allowed students to integrate their discipline and research work into all areas related to society, health and disease. A one-year master's program in global health is available. The two united faculties have developed into a community of approximately 1950 students, with a staff of around 1200 (academics, administrative and support staff). Since 1992 staff and students are based in the Randwyck district, near the University Hospital (''Academisch Ziekenhuis Maastricht'' or AZM) which opened in 1991. The AZM has been renamed MUMC+ (Maastrichts Universitair Medisch Centrum Plus).


Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience

Founded in 1995, the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN) is specialised in two contemporary approaches in psychology:
cognitive psychology Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which ...
and biological psychology. It is home to around 1,500 students and 250 staff. The faculty offers a Dutch and English bachelor's programme in psychology, two English-taught master's programmes and one research master's programme. The one-year master's programme in psychology offers specialisations in
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,
developmental psychology Developmental psychology is the science, scientific study of how and why humans grow, change, and adapt across the course of their lives. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult deve ...
,
cognitive neuroscience Cognitive neuroscience is the scientific field that is concerned with the study of the biological processes and aspects that underlie cognition, with a specific focus on the neural connections in the brain which are involved in mental proces ...
, health and social psychology, psychology and law, work and
organisational psychology Industrial and organizational psychology (I-O psychology), an applied discipline within psychology, is the science of human behavior in the workplace. Depending on the country or region of the world, I-O psychology is also known as occupational ...
. In conjunction with the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, the two-year research master Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience offers six different specialisations: cognitive neuroscience, fundamental neuroscience, neuropsychology, drug development and neurohealth, neuroeconomics and
psychopathology Psychopathology is the study of abnormal cognition, behaviour, and experiences which differs according to social norms and rests upon a number of constructs that are deemed to be the social norm at any particular era. Biological psychopatholo ...
. The selective two-year master programme
Forensic Psychology Forensic psychology is the development and application of scientific knowledge and methods to help answer legal questions arising in criminal, civil, contractual, or other judicial proceedings. Forensic psychology includes both research on various ...
in English, offers theoretical, research and skills courses, to educate students to become scientist-practitioners in the field of forensic psychology and psychiatry. The faculty's unique research infrastructure – including hypermodern high field MRI scanners – allows for groundbreaking research into the brain and behaviour.


School of Business and Economics

The School of Business and Economics (SBE) was founded in 1984. It is currently the biggest faculty within UM in terms of student numbers. Of the 4,200 students enrolled, more than 60% come from abroad. As a business school, SBE is accredited by
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,
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and the
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. According to the school's website, this
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has only been achieved by 1% of business schools worldwide. SBE offers bachelor's programmes (B.Sc.) in International Business, Business Engineering, Economics and Business Economics, Fiscal Economics, and Econometrics and Operations Research, as well as a number of master's programmes, executive master's programmes and
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's. SBE students are represented by
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, the School's general student association.


Faculty of Law

Maastricht University's Faculty of Law (FL) was founded in 1981. Times Higher Education (THE) ranks the university's Law programme at 40th in the world in 2020. It started with a programme in
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, designed in line with UM's problem-based learning principles. Ninety students enrolled in the first year. In the 1990s, the faculty introduced a new programme entitled the European Law School (ELS), which focused on European, comparative and international law. The programme was taught partly in English. A fully English-language ELS programme was established in 2007. It was the first English-language bachelor's programme in law in the Netherlands. The faculty currently consists of about 2,500 students and 150 members of staff. It offers four bachelor's (
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) programmes: Dutch law, tax law, the Dutch-language ELS and the English-language ELS. In addition, the faculty offers seven master's ( LL.M.) programmes and three advanced master's programmes, most of which are taught in English. In research, the faculty's Graduate School of Law has built a reputation in the areas of international, European and comparative law. The faculty participates in two national research schools, the School of Human Rights and the Ius Commune Research School, and is home to several research institutes: the Institute for Transnational Legal Research (METRO), the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights, the Institute for Globalisation and International Regulation (IGIR), the Montesquieu Institute Maastricht, the Institute for Corporate Law, Governance and Innovation Policies (ICGI), and the Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI). The faculty was initially located at the Nieuwenhof béguinage, currently home to University College Maastricht. With the number of students growing quickly, the faculty moved to its current location in 1990. This building, the former seat of the provincial government of
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, consists of tutorial rooms, lecture halls as well as staff offices. The building underwent major renovation works around 2009, which included a new common room and lunch counter for students, a garden terrace, and an additional lecture hall in the former ballroom.


Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, also known as FASoS, was founded in 1994. Currently FASoS hosts approximately 2000 students and around 240 staff members. Over 70% of the students are non-Dutch. Research and education is internationally oriented and all of the programmes are offered in English. The faculty is located in the centre of Maastricht, in four buildings on the Grote Gracht. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences offers two three-year bachelors programmes: Cultuurwetenschappen/Arts and Culture; and European Studies, and eight one-year masters programmes: European Studies; Globalisation and Development Studies; European Public Affairs; European Studies on Society, Science and Technology; Arts and Heritage; Policy, Management and Culture; Media Culture; Art, Literature and Society; and Politics and Society. Furthermore, two two-year research masters are offered: Cultures of Arts, Science and Technology; and European Studies. The Research Institute for Arts and Social Sciences encompasses all research of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. The Research Institute comprises four programmes: 1. Politics and Culture in Europe, 2. Science, Technology and Society, 3. Cultural Memory and Diversity and 4. Globalisation, Transnationalism and Development. The research area overlaps both the humanities and the social sciences. The faculty has a graduate school with an intake of about 10 PhD candidates each year.


Faculty of Science and Engineering

The Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE), formerly the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, consists of: *
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(UCM) *
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(UCV) * Department of Advanced Computing Sciences (DACS) *
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(MSP) *
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(FP) * TIER: Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research


Tuition and financial assistance

Tuition fees at Maastricht University vary, depending on nationality and study programme. Regular tuition fees for public universities in the Netherlands are determined annually by law. Statutory tuition fees currently amount to €2,060 annually for both bachelor's and master's programmes. Under European regulations, regular tuition levels are also applicable to foreign students from the
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, which includes all
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member states. All other students pay institutional tuition fees, ranging from €7,500 to €10,000 annually for bachelor's programmes and €13,000 or more annually for master's programmes. Since 2012, students at the University College pay a surcharge on top of the statutory or institutional tuition fees to fund additional facilities, a student grants programme and student organisations at the college. An earlier plan to introduce a separate institutional fee at the University College was shelved after criticism from staff and students. Ph.D. candidates ('promovendi') at Maastricht University do not pay tuition as they have the rank of junior members of the academic staff. Ph.D. candidates are employed by the university or faculty on full-time, four-year contracts with regular, entry-level wages and employee benefits. Ph.D. appointments usually involve teaching responsibilities and limited administrative duties. The Limburg University Fund, a fundraising foundation associated with the UM, administers a scholarship fund for students from emerging markets.


Academic life


Staff

Maastricht University's academic staff consists of about 1,900 members with a male/female ratio of 54/46. The number of support staff members amounts to 1,600, of which about 62% is female. Nearly 20% of UM's staff members hold a foreign nationality. In 2014 about 17% of professors at Maastricht University were women, which is more or less the average in the Netherlands.


Teaching

Maastricht University awards degrees at all levels up to the title of ''
doctor Doctor or The Doctor may refer to: Personal titles * Doctor (title), the holder of an accredited academic degree * A medical practitioner, including: ** Physician ** Surgeon ** Dentist ** Veterinary physician ** Optometrist *Other roles ** ...
''. Teaching at Maastricht University is founded on the educational principles of
problem-based learning Problem-based learning (PBL) is a student-centered pedagogy in which students learn about a subject through the experience of solving an open-ended problem found in trigger material. The PBL process does not focus on problem solving with a define ...
(PBL). According to its website, UM is the only university which applies the problem-based learning approach in all its educational programmes. In 1974, Maastricht's newly established Faculty of Medicine was only the second in the world to adopt the problem-based learning method. As PBL was originally designed for medical education, other faculties have developed a PBL approach that corresponds with the needs of their academic disciplines. At the heart of Maastricht's PBL philosophy is the idea that students are personally responsible for their own academic education. A typical UM course revolves around so-called 'tutorial groups'. A tutorial group usually consists of 14 to 16 students, meeting once or twice a week to discuss self-identified problems on the basis of cases or situations described in the course manual. Each tutorial meeting consists of two parts: a post-discussion, where problems which have been identified at the previous session are discussed on the basis of assigned literature and sometimes with additional library research, followed by a pre-discussion of topics to be discussed at the next meeting. The tutorial group is chaired by a student member, who is expected to structure the discussion and ensure that every member of the group is able to participate. The instructor, typically named 'tutor', plays only a limited role during tutorials. Tutors will monitor discussions, provide feedback, and, where needed, help students in identifying relevant problems. Courses usually take seven weeks of tutorials followed by a final exam, but may also include writing or speaking assignments. Even though traditional lecture-based teaching is at odds with the primarily self-guiding PBL approach, it has become customary in many programmes at Maastricht to include at least some lectures in courses to supplement the tutorial-based structure. Also, electronic learning methods are increasingly being used. As PBL courses are intensive, students can take only two or three courses at a time depending on the number of credit hours per course. The university's Language Centre offers an introduction to Maastricht's PBL approach for international students.


Rankings and reputation

According to ''
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2016'', Maastricht University occupied 88th (121st as of 2021) position in the world ranking.
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2017/18 ranked Maastricht University as the 200th best university in the world, while ''
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'' (or ''Shanghai Ranking'') counted Maastricht among the world's top 300 universities, since 2011. In the ''
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'', which ranks the top 50 universities under 50 years old around the world, UM reached the 19th place in 2021. In a similar list published by THE ('' THE 100 Under 50 universities 2021''), Maastricht University was placed at the 6th in the world. In terms of specific areas of studies, THE ranks Maastricht University at 23rd in the field of "Law," 64th in "Clinical & health" and 72nd in "Business & Economics" in the world for 2022. The ''
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'' places the School of Business and Economics at the 60th place in 2016. The School of Business and Economics has been awarded the '
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' by the prestigious
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,
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and
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. In addition to excellent medicine, business, and law programs, Maastricht University may perhaps be best known for the excellent reputation of its psychology department attracting students and researchers from across the world. Within the domain of biological psychology, Maastricht University is ranked 5th in the world. Among its excellent facilities, Maastricht University has one of only 5 fully operational Tesla 9.4 MRI scanners found worldwide allowing for ground breaking research in fields of psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience. Furthermore, Maastricht University is also ranked 5th in the world in fields of education and educational research.


Research

Research at Maastricht University concentrates on three major themes: Quality of Life, Learning and Innovation and Europe and a Globalising World. Examples of issues addressed through UM research are: healthy ageing, climate change, demographic changes, sustainability, the impact of technological developments, population ageing, healthy and affordable food, and the
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process. A lot of this research is conducted in multidisciplinary teams and in institutes such as CARIM, the School for Cardiovascular Diseases. A noted research platform is Scannexus (formerly known as: Brains Unlimited): a scanning lab at the Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus, offering three MRI scanners with ultrahigh magnetic fields, including one of only four 9.4 Tesla scanners worldwide. Professor Rainer Goebel, director of the affiliated Maastricht Brain Imaging Centre (M-Bic), has been rewarded several large international research grants. The internationally renowned Tissue Regeneration group of Professor Clemens van Blitterswijk moved to Maastricht University in February 2014. His presence fits in the large investment programme ''Kennis-As Limburg'', that aims to strengthen the provincial knowledge economy. So does the Institute of Nanoscopy, led by Professor Peter Peters. In 2011 the number of
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at the University of Maastricht had reached 213; the number of scientific publications 3,567. Most
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programmes take place in faculty research units (so-called
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) or associated institutes.


Research and graduate schools

* Research and graduate schools affiliated to the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences: ** Netherlands School of Primary Care (CaRe) ** School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), linked to CaRe and WTMC ** School for Cardiovascular Diseases (CARIM) ** School for Oncology and Developmental Biology (GROW) ** School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM) ** School of Health Professions Education (SHE), linked to ICO * Research and graduate schools of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience: ** Graduate School Psychology and Neuroscience (GSPN), linked to EPOS, EPP, EURON, Psychology and Health, and M-Bic ** European Graduate School of Neuroscience (EURON) ** School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHeNS), linked to EURON * Research and graduate schools of the School of Business and Economics: ** Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE) ** International Centre for Integrated assessment and Sustainable development (ICIS) ** METEOR, Maastricht Research School of Economics of Technology and Organization, an umbrella for research schools affiliated with the UM School of Business and Economics: *** KAANS, monitoring school careers of youngsters in Limburg *** Limburg Institute of Financial Economics (LIFE) *** Maastricht Academic Centre for Research in Services (MAXX) *** Maastricht Accounting and Audit Research Centre (MARC) *** Network Social Innovation (NSI) *** Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) * Graduate schools of the Faculty of Law: ** Maastricht Graduate School of Law (MGSL) ** Ius Commune ** School of Human Rights Research * Graduate schools of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: ** Graduate School of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASOS), linked to WTMC, NIG, Huizinga Institute, OSL, Posthumus Institute, NICA, CERES, NOG, RMeS, and OPG * Graduate schools of the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences: ** Maastricht University graduate School of susTainability science (MUST), linked to SENSE ** Maastricht Graduate School of Governance (MGSoG)


Independent research institutes

* Maastricht Centre for Human Rights * Maastricht European Institute for Transnational Law Research (METRO), publishes the ''Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law'' * Montesquieu Institute, Centre for European Parliamentary History and Constitutional Development (in
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and Maastricht) *
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, Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology, part of
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Knowledge transfer, entrepreneurship

As elsewhere, ongoing research at Maastricht University is translated into practice, leading to new products to be launched on the market. UM cooperates with businesses and socially relevant organisations through various programmes and institutes, like the Maastricht Centre for Entrepreneurship, Service Science Factory, BioMedbooster, BioPartner Center Maastricht, Contract Research Centre and SME Portal Maastricht University. UM Holding is the corporate venture firm of UM spin-off companies and participations. Brainport 2020 is the name of a programme that aims at campus development in four locations in the province of Limburg, in cooperation with the local government, business sector and knowledge institutions in the region: * Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus in Maastricht-Randwyck, specialising in health and wellbeing * Chemelot Campus in
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, focusing on chemistry and materials * Smart Services Hub in
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, focusing on finance, administration and informational services * Greenport Campus in
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, focusing on food and horticulture, with links to logistics and manufacturing


Student life

In 2013, nearly 16,000 students studied at Maastricht University, 47% of whom were foreign. Students in Maastricht can affiliate with a number of student associations, international associations or debating societies. They present themselves during the annual INKOM, the general introduction week for new Maastricht students. Furthermore, Maastricht offers several cultural and sports activities in and around the city.


Student housing

Like most other Dutch universities, UM itself does not provide regular student housing. However, the university participates in a student housing foundation, offering mediation services to students. About 2,700 rooms and apartments offered through the Maastricht student housing foundation are provided by local housing associations Woonpunt, Servatius and Maasvallei. Some 8,000 other accommodations are provided by private landlords. Most units are located in houses or small apartment complexes across the historic city centre or in its immediate surrounding neighbourhoods. Many foreign exchange students live at the UM Guesthouse in Annadal, which provides short-term housing.


Student Service Centre

UM's Student Service Centre is located in the former Bonnefanten monastery and offers financial, legal and other forms of advise to students. Part of the Student Service Centre is the ''Studium Generale'' cultural programma, offering lectures on a broad range of topics and other cultural activities to members of the university community and the general public.


Observant and BreakingMaas

The university's independent newspaper, ''Observant'', is published on a weekly basis and distributed throughout the university. It provides news, background articles, columns and educational information in Dutch and English, directed primarily at the university community. Since 2012 a television programme named ''BreakingMaas'' provides news and entertainment for students in English. The programme is available on the local TV broadcaster RTV Maastricht as well as on
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and
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Notable professors

*
Wiebe Bijker Wiebe E. Bijker (born 19 March 1951, Delft) is a Dutch professor Emeritus, former chair of the Department of Social Science and Technology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Early life Bijker's father was an engineer involved in imp ...
, professor of
Technology and Society Technology society and life or technology and culture refers to the inter-dependency, co-dependence, co-influence, and co-production of technology and society upon one another. Evidence for this synergy has been found since humanity first starte ...
, member of the
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(KNAW) and together with
Trevor Pinch Trevor J. Pinch (1 January 1952 – 16 December 2021) was a British sociologist, part-time musician and chair of the Science and Technology Studies department at Cornell University. In 2018, he won the J.D. Bernal Prize from the Society for ...
the founder of
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(SCOT) *
Michel Dumontier Michel Justin Dumontier (born 1975) is a Distinguished Professor of Data Science at Maastricht University. His research focuses on methods to represent knowledge on the web with applications for drug discovery and personalized medicine. He was p ...
, professor of Data Science *
Mark Post Marcus Johannes "Mark" Post (born 20 July 1957) is a Dutch pharmacologist who is Professor of Vascular Physiology at Maastricht University and (until 2010) Professor of Angiogenesis in Tissue Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology. ...
, professor of Vascular Physiology. In 2013 he was the first in the world to present a proof of concept for
cultured meat Cultured meat (also known by other names) is meat produced by culturing animal cells ''in vitro''. It is a form of cellular agriculture. Cultured meat is produced using tissue engineering techniques pioneered in regenerative medicine. Jason Ma ...
. *
Jan Dietz Jean Leonardus Gerardus (Jan) Dietz (born 20 June 1945) is a Dutch Information systems researcher, Emeritus Professor of Information Systems Design, and part-time Professor of Enterprise Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, known for ...
, professor of
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at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, developer of the
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theory and methodology *
Hein Schreuder Hein Schreuder (born December 24, 1951) is a Dutch economist and business executive, former executive vice-president corporate strategy & acquisitions at DSM and former professor at the University of Maastricht. especially known for his work on "Eco ...
, professor of
Business Economics Business economics is a field in applied economics which uses economic theory and quantitative methods to analyze business enterprises and the factors contributing to the diversity of organizational structures and the relationships of firms with ...
,
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and
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, later Executive Vice-President Corporate Strategy and Acquisitions at Royal
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*
Luc Soete Luc Soete (born 15 September 1950, Sint-Jans-Molenbeek) is a Belgian economist. He is a Professor and the Dean of thBrussels School of Governance He is also a member of thAdvisory Board of the University of Sussex Business Schooland of the Advi ...
, professor of General
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, director of
UNU-MERIT The ''United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology'' (UNU-MERIT) is a research and training institute of the United Nations University which cooperates closely with Maastricht Universi ...
(part of
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), member of the group of key thinkers for the
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*
Geert Hofstede Gerard Hendrik (Geert) Hofstede (2 October 1928 – 12 February 2020) was a Dutch social psychologist, IBM employee, and Professor Emeritus of Organizational Anthropology and International Management at Maastricht University in the Netherla ...
, emeritus professor of Organizational Anthropology and International Management, founder of Institute for Research on Intercultural Cooperation (IRIC) *
Theo van Boven Theodoor Cornelis (Theo) van Boven (born 16 May 1934, Voorburg) is a Dutch jurist and professor emeritus in international law. In 1977, he was appointed director of the United Nations' Division for Human Rights, a precursor of the UN Human Rights ...
, professor Emeritus of
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, former director of
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and UN Special Rapporteur on torture * Jan Smits, professor of European Private Law, director of the Maastricht European Private Law Institute, visiting professor of Comparative Legal Studies at the
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, member of the
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*
Ferdinand Grapperhaus Ferdinand Bernhard Joseph "Ferd" Grapperhaus (born 8 November 1959) is a Dutch politician who served as Minister of Justice and Security in the Third Rutte cabinet from 26 October 2017 until 10 January 2022. He is a member of the Christian Democ ...
, professor of European
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, member of the
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, minister of Justice and Security * Peter Van den Bossche, professor of
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, head of Department of
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&
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; Director, Institute for Globalisation & International Regulation (IGIR), former counselor to the WTO Appellate Body, acting director of WTO Appellate Body Secretariat. *
Maurits Allessie Maurits Allessie (born 1945) is an emeritus professor of physiology at Maastricht University. As an electrophysiologist he developed better insights in atrial fibrillation. Career Allessie was born in 1945 in Gemert, the Netherlands, and was raise ...
, professor of
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, member of the
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*
Clemens van Blitterswijk Clemens A. van Blitterswijk (1957, The Hague) is a Dutch tissue engineer who contributed to the use of biomaterials to heal bone injuries, especially using osteoinductive ceramics. In collaboration with Jan de Boer and others, he has contribut ...
, professor of regenerative medicine * Cees van der Vleuten, professor of
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, chairman of Department of Educational Development & Research of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, scientific director School of Health Professions Education (SHE), honorary professor at the
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,
King Saud University King Saud University (KSU, ar, جامعة الملك سعود) is a public university in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Established in 1957 by King Saud bin Abdulaziz to address the country's skilled worker shortage, it is the first university in the K ...
and
Radboud University Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, nl, Radboud Universiteit , formerly ''Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen'') is a public research university located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The university bears the name of Saint Radboud, a 9th century D ...
, recipient of the Hubbard Award 2005 for most outstanding researcher in medical education. File:Jan Dietz portret.jpg, Jan Dietz File:Portretphoto Wim Naudé.jpg, Wim Naudé File:Jan Smits.jpg, Jan Smits File:VanBlitterswijk.JPG, Clemens van Blitterswijk


References

* Beijer, H., e.a., ''Monument''. Maastricht, 200
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External links

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Maastricht University Datasets
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