Study at FHML
At FHML, you can choose from five bachelor’s programmes and twelve master’s programmes that prepare you for a future in healthcare. Problem-Based Learning is at the heart of our programmes. This approach to education allows you to learn in an interactive and small-group setting. Together with your fellow students, you form small groups and work on realistic, real-world problems. You collaborate actively, exchange ideas and approach issues from different perspectives.
Problem-Based Learning ensures that you gain more than just knowledge. You learn to think critically, communicate effectively and take charge of your own learning – qualities that will help you further in your career. Thanks to our international learning environment, you’ll come into contact with students from different backgrounds and cultures. You’ll gain a broader perspective on the world and learn to analyse problems from different angles.
Our bachelor's programmes
European Public Health
Explore health and healthcare from a European perspective and discover how the EU shapes policies and addresses issues like ageing populations and cross-border epidemics. Take the first step towards an impactful career in healthcare across Europe.
Health Sciences
Discover how factors of biology, behaviour, and environment influence health. Learn to think from different perspectives and work on solutions for today’s and tomorrow’s complex health challenges.
Medicine
The Medicine programme is centred around authentic professional tasks and focuses on collaborative and self-regulation of learning. Knowledge, skills and attitude are taught using real world tasks from physicians. You practice on each other and simulated patients.
Regenerative Medicine and Technology
Combine science and engineering and apply it in medical applications. This programme teaches you to develop methods that trigger the body to repair or renew itself. You gain all the multidisciplinary knowledge and skills needed to design and market innovative solutions in healthcare.
Our master programmes
Epidemiology
Epidemiology studies the patterns, causes, and effects of diseases in populations. It forms the backbone of public health. This one-year master’s trains you in study design, data analysis, and research communication—preparing you to improve public health.
Global Health
Broaden your perspective, challenge assumptions, and critically assess policies in global health. Rethink health challenges and explore how local and global dynamics shape health. Gain the skills to address health inequities and make a meaningful impact.
Governance and Leadership in European Public Health
Stand in the middle of policy making. This unique master’s prepares you to shape evidence-based health policies and strengthen public health governance. All to lead the transformations of public health systems and to become a future health leader.
Discover Governance and Leadership in European Public Health
Health and Digital Transformation
Healthcare faces complex challenges and digital solutions play a key role. In this master's, you’ll gain the expertise to bridge healthcare, data science, and technology. You’ll lead organisational change and facilitate the digital transformation in care.
Health Food Innovation Management
Ready to shape the future of food? In the Health Food Innovation Management master’s, you’ll turn ideas into products that make a real impact on health. Discover the latest trends, work on real-life cases and expand your network. Your journey starts here!
Health Promotion
Design, implement, and evaluate innovative, evidence-based interventions to create healthy environments and empower people and communities to live healthier lives. By combining theory, research, and practice, you’ll be ready to realise sustainable change.
Healthcare Policy, Innovation and Management
Healthcare is facing rising demands and limited resources. In this master’s, you’ll learn to design innovative solutions, manage health services, and lead transformations for sustainable, equitable care.
Medicine
You will gain experience as a medical intern in hospitals and healthcare institutions. You'll take on responsibilities in patient care and learn to collaborate with other disciplines. After graduation, you will be a medical doctor.
Human Movement Sciences
Discover the science behind movement, health, and performance. In this master’s, you’ll explore how exercise and nutrition impact the body—from patients to athletes. Choose between two specialisations: Health & Rehabilitation or Sports & Nutrition.
Physician - Clinical Researcher
Do you have a biomedical background and want to combine patient care with research? In this master’s, you’ll become a medical doctor and a clinical researcher. You learn to translate research into practice and gain experience in healthcare and research.
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Accreditations and recognitions
The Dutch-Flemish Accreditation Organisation (NVAO)
All bachelor's and master's programmes at Maastricht University have been approved by the NVAO (the Dutch-Flemish Accreditation Organisation). This organisation determines whether higher education in the Netherlands and Flanders is of good quality by checking the learning objectives, the learning environment, the method of assessment and the final level of the programmes.
Association for Epidemiology (VvE)
The Association for Epidemiology (VvE) accredits epidemiology programmes. This accreditation ensures that programmes meet strict content requirements in the areas of theory, research methodology, and statistics. The master's programme Epidemiology meets the Epi-A registration requirements as established by the VvE.
International Union for Health Promotion and Education
The master's programme Health Promotion received the European Health Promotion Accreditation from the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE). This accreditation system recognises the unique set of competencies exercised by the health promotion workforce.
