Incoming students

Exchange students who will study at FPN will be able to take part in almost all courses from the 2nd and 3rd year of the Bachelor in Psychology (English language). During your exchange programme you will be in the same classes as students studying at our faculty full-time.

Course overview exchange students 2024-2025

If your home university has a formal exchange agreement with our faculty, you can apply for an exchange period at the International Office of your own university. All exchange students must be officially nominated by their home university. The selection process varies from university to university. Please contact the International Relations Office of your home university to get nominated for the Maastricht University Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience exchange programme. Once you have been nominated by your home university, you receive an e-mail with information about how to apply to our faculty.

If we do not have an exchange agreement with your university, it is not possible to study at our faculty under the terms of an exchange agreement. You can take courses at our faculty as a fee paying student though. For information about “contract education” at our faculty, please see the pages on non-degree seeking students or subsidiary students.

Fall semester only
Students who have obtained 180 ECTS during their Bachelor’s programme (or equivalent) are allowed to choose a maximum of 2 Master’s courses from the one-year Master’s in Psychology programme (only possible during the fall semester). Participation is not guaranteed. Students need the official approval from the FPN Board of Examiners. 

Any further questions? Feel free to contact us through fpn-iro-incoming@maastrichtuniversity.nl or schedule a face-to-face or online meeting. If you wish, we can schedule an online meeting at a time which is more convenient for you. 

Since the official language at our faculty is English and all courses are taught in English, exchange students are required to have an advanced level of the English language (comparable to the level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference) to be able to successfully complete their courses at our faculty (note that we do not require any proof of an English Language Test Score).

If your goal is to improve your English, this is not the right university for you to come to. Our educational system, the Problem Based Learning (PBL) system, requires you to actively take part in the lectures, or tutorial meeting as we call them. Speaking up and actively taking part in discussions is a crucial part of the system and this will also influence students’ final grades. Therefore it is extremely important for exchange students to master the written as well as spoken English language.