Bachelor

Health Sciences

Are you interested in a healthy lifestyle? Do you want to help people to become a healthy and happy 100-year old? Shouldn't you first know why the body of one person falls ill and that of another doesn't? Do exercise, nutrition and lifestyle influence this? If so, should we not convince (or oblige?) everyone to exercise more, stop smoking and eat superfoods? And once they are 100, how can we offer them good and affordable health care? Maybe by implementing more digital innovations in care?

If these questions make you think, then you are in the right place at Health Sciences. Because during that bachelor's you view health in combination with behaviour, nutrition, environment, social environment and health care. Read more >

Fast facts

small-scale education and mentor guidance
first year: orientation on all aspects of healthcare
second and third year: specialising in biology, policy/management, digital technology, mental health or prevention
international study experience: international fellow students, minor abroad
honours programme for extra depth
3-year, full-time bachelor's, taught in Dutch
starts in September

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New! Specialisation Digital Technology and Care

Do you want to study the effects and the application of new digital technologies on the health domain? As from September 2019 Health Sciences will offer the specialisation Digital Technology and Care within the curriculum of the Health Sciences bachelor.

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Health Sciences in Maastricht is a broad-ranged study programme. In our first year we were able to orientate ourselves and find out where our interests lied."

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Eline and Lieke Willems (the Netherlands), Health Sciences