Bachelor

University College Venlo

At University College Venlo (UCV), you have the opportunity to focus on health, nutrition and business in an interdisciplinary manner. You design your own curriculum by choosing from a broad range of courses from the Social sciences (e.g. psychology, sociology, economics, health management, public health or law) and Life sciences (e.g. biology, chemistry and informatics and physiology). For example, you can study the topic Nutritional Pharmacotherapy (medicine 2.0) together with Social Psychology.
With the help of your personal academic advisor, you build a tailor-made bachelor's programme, perfectly adapted to the master’s programme or professional position you aim for.

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  • Center for Healthy Eating and Food Innovation

    Solving world issues through food

    Tuesday, October 11, 2022

    "In ten years more than a thousand students here will be working on social issues around agriculture, sustainability and nutrition," predicts Dean Thomas Cleij of Maastricht's Faculty of Science and Engineering.

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  • 'Gut is our second brain'

    Monday, October 10, 2022

    Our intestines are oh so important, but in science they get the short end of the stick. Microbiologist Koen Venema is doing research with artificial intestines. "They are the key to your health."

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  • Madhura Rao

    Concerns about daily bread

    Tuesday, June 28, 2022

    In the Netherlands, more than a million people live below the poverty line. For them, it is not a matter of course that they can buy enough healthy and affordable food.

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  • Pim Martens

    The biggest animal lovers don't have pets themselves

    Tuesday, June 21, 2022

    No, the animals on the livestock farm do not have it best. But that applies just as much to many of our pets, says Professor Pim Martens in his book Animal Dignity. An animal that is used to living in a forest in Romania can't just be dropped into a flat in Amsterdam.

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  • groente

    Growers will be able to measure vitamins in the greenhouse

    Tuesday, April 5, 2022

    As a vegetable or fruit grower, measure how many vitamins are in your products? That is still in the future, but in the Food Screening EMR project companies and knowledge institutes are working on a device that will make this possible.

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  • Towards a healthier countryside

    Thursday, March 24, 2022

    Scientists from Maastricht University will lead a major research program into the health effects of climate adaptation in rural areas. In this programme, MANTRA, researchers from Maastricht University, Radboud University, Wageningen University & Research, Leiden University of Applied Sciences, RIVM, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and Naturalis are joining forces.

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  • More fish for the food bank

    Monday, November 15, 2021

    Can we make food bank customers happy with bycatch? Madhura Rao, researcher at Maastricht University, wanted to know whether donating excess caught fish to food banks would be a welcome addition to the packages and contribute to reducing food waste.

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  • erespeld Venlo voor Martin Paul

    Martin Paul receives city of Venlo's badge of honour

    Wednesday, September 8, 2021

    UM President Martin Paul received the badge of honour ('erespeld) of the city of Venlo on 7 September from Mayor Scholten.

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  • campus venlo

    Royal visit to Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo

    Tuesday, June 1, 2021 Read more
  • Venlo

    New accommodation for Campus Venlo

    Thursday, October 10, 2019 Read more
  • Alie de Boer in the top 5 of 'Science Talent of the Year'

    Wednesday, May 15, 2019

    Food scientist Alie de Boer from the UM campus in Venlo is among the final five talented researchers who have a chance of winning the New Scientist title ‘Science Talent of the Year’.

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  • Keuzegids Bachelors 2019

    Keuzegids Bachelors 2019: three UM Colleges stable at the top

    Friday, November 16, 2018 Read more
  • Alie de Boer

    Vote for Alie

    Friday, October 19, 2018

    The VIVA400 is a list of 400 inspiring women who shine in their field of expertise and who are nominated because of their talents. Our Alie de Boer is on that list in the category ‘Knappe koppen’ (brainiacs).

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  • Elsevier - Beste Studies 2018

    UM’s University Colleges again dominate Elsevier ranking

    Thursday, October 4, 2018

    De University Colleges van de UM doen het opnieuw goed in de Elsevier-ranking.

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  • ucv construction works

    Renovation new UCV building begins

    Tuesday, September 11, 2018 Read more
  • features

    New chair position in Venlo: Youth, Food and Health

    Thursday, August 30, 2018

    Several companies and Maastricht University joined forces to develop the new academic chair on Youth, Food and Health at Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo. The appointed professor will spend five years conducting research on healthy eating patterns in young people.

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  • ucv graduates

    First graduates University College Venlo

    Friday, July 6, 2018

    Mirte van den Boogaard and Augustin Poncelet will be among the first graduates of the bachelor’s programme at University College Venlo (UCV). They look back on a memorable experience.

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  • University College Venlo - ISA BEET

    Student association UCV contributes to student life in Venlo

    Thursday, June 21, 2018

    Although the bachelor’s programme University College Venlo (UCV) is nearly three years old they never had their own student association. Until now.

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  • alie de boer

    “Do you believe Rens Kroes?”

    Thursday, February 1, 2018

    Mayonnaise with a blue check mark on the label. Light potato chips. Diet margarine that helps prevent heart attacks. Are these claims even true? And why do people trust Rens Kroes’s lifestyle advice, but don’t trust E-numbers? These are the types of questions that intrigue researcher Alie de Boer.

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  • Keuzegids 2017

    Keuzegids Bachelors 2018: seal of quality for three UM colleges

    Wednesday, November 15, 2017

    The ‘Keuzegids Bachelors 2018’, released today, shows a continued increase in our university’s scores. Our students’ positive evaluation has seen many programmes rise in the national rankings. All three UM colleges have been awarded a seal of quality, which distinguishes them as top programmes. Remarkably, University College Venlo, participating for the first time, leads the field; University College Maastricht and the Maastricht Science Programme also remain at the top of the Keuzegids.

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  • The social impact of a small-scale university is huge
    Augustin Poncelet (Belgium), University College Venlo
  • My courses mainly focus on consumer behaviour and how to help people to make healthy choices. Health, psychology and economics was not such a weird combination after all
    Ilse Knoops (The Netherlands), University College Venlo