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Universalis, the UCM study association, has been actively enriching UCM student life for 12,5 years! 

Professor Clemens van Blitterswijk has won the 2015 Huibregtsen Prize.

Like in previous years, Elsevier looked into all Dutch study programmes and established which ones are the best. Like last year, our bachelor programme Tax Law is in first place again!

People from all around the world have registered for Maastricht University’s first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), which will start on 5 October.

Maastricht University (UM) climbed to shared 88th place in the latest edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, up from number 101 last year.

UM Professor Harald Merckelbach has been awarded the ‘Nobel Prize for Psychology’. De Psycholoog, the journal of the Dutch Institute of Psychologists (NIP), created this unofficial award on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary.

Five bachelor’s programmes in first place

In the annual ‘Best Studies’ survey by the weekly magazine Elsevier, five bachelor’s programmes from Maastricht University (UM) were ranked in first place. 

Like in previous years, Elsevier looked into all Dutch study programmes and established which ones are the best. And like last year, our bachelor programmes European Law School and Tax Law are in first place again! 

The next edition of the bi-annual conference on "Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory" (LOFT) will be held in Maastricht on July 20-22, 2016.

Rudolf Müller has been appointed scientific director of the Business Intelligence and Smart Services Institute (BISS).