Rankings & accreditations

UM is ranked as the most international university in the Netherlands, and the lecturers’ level of English is rated the highest. Most UM programmes also score high on preparing for a professional career.

This ‘Keuzegids’ researches student opinions using the National Student Survey. Student satisfaction is summarised on five themes: Content, Teachers, Testing, Career Preparation and Atmosphere. The labour market perspective is given for clusters of programmes (e.g. all programmes) and does not offer any specific outcomes for UM programmes. 

• Two following Master's programmes are rated excellent: 'Global Supply Chain Management and Change' and 'Learning and Development in Organisations'.  
• The master's programme Health Innovation Food Management also received a very good rating.

In the annual ‘Best Studies’ edition of the Dutch magazine Elsevier, universities are ranked based on the quality and variety of their programmes, facilities, curriculum, teaching quality, testing standards and overall organisation and communication.
 

Elsevier also publishes results for the master’s programmes. 

• 3 UM master's programmes were ranked 1^st: Artificial Intelligence, Health Sciences (Research) and Cultures of Art, Science and Technology (Research) 
• The master’s programme Economics and Operations Research shows a significant improvement in student satisfaction. Learning and Development also has very satisfied students. 

* The results of the 2019 edition are identical to the results of 2018, since both are based on the National Student Survey 2018. 

The ‘Institutional Quality Assurance Assessment’ focuses on university-wide internal quality assurance for study programmes. The six-year, university-wide accreditation means UM has first-rate education and is supported by an overarching system that ensures the continuous high quality of the curricula.  

For this certificate, NVAO evaluated; 

• the quality of the assurance system,  
• the planning and control cycle,  
• the improvement of programmes, 
• the governance and organisational structure, and  
• the way the process of university decision-making promotes the quality of education. 

In 2013, UM was awarded the NVAO’s Distinctive Quality Feature for Internationalisation. According to the NVAO, internationalisation is ‘in UM’s DNA’.

A number of programmes from Maastricht University have been awarded the 'Distinctive Quality Feature for Internationalisation' from the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO). For this quality feature, NVAO uses the Frameworks for the Assessment of Quality in Internationalisation that were created by the European Consortium for Accreditation in Higher Education (ECA).  The ECA is the first quality assurance agency to assess the quality of internationalisation in compliance with current international quality assurance practices. Once a programme is awarded the NVAO quality feature, they can apply for the ECA Certificate for Quality in Internationalisation.

The following programmes have been awarded both the  (View the full ECA report) : 

School of Business and Economics 

BSc in International Business 

MSc in International Business 

MSc in Information & Network Economics 

MSc in Management of Learning 

MSc in Global Supply Management & Change 

Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences 

BSc in European Public Health 

MSc in European Public Health 

MSc in Global Health 

MSc in Health Professions Education 

The University College Maastricht bachelor’s programme and the master’s programme in Forensic Psychology received the special NVAO quality label 'small-scale and intensive'. 

In 2008, University College Maastricht was the first to receive an NVAO quality label for the excellent achievement level of its graduates. It is an exceptional additional certificate, on top of the regular accreditation, for programmes that excel in a specific area. Only two higher education programmes have been awarded this label. 

The UM School of Business and Economics is internationally accredited by the renowned AACSB (American), EQUIS (European) and AMBA (UK), and therefore part of an elite group of international schools with all three accreditations. This means graduates can get their degree worldwide.