University College Maastricht
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| Type | Public, Liberal arts and sciences college, Problem-based learning |
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| Established | 2002 |
| Dean | Dr. Matthieu Segers |
| Students | 600 |
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Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands 50°50′39″N 5°41′19″E / 50.8443°N 5.6886°ECoordinates: 50°50′39″N 5°41′19″E / 50.8443°N 5.6886°E |
| Affiliations | Maastricht University |
| Website | http://www.ucm.nl |
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Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
University College Maastricht (abbreviated as, and informally UCM) is an English language, internationally oriented, liberal arts and sciences college housed in the 15th century Nieuwenhof monastery in Maastricht, Netherlands. Founded in 2002, it is the second of its kind in the Netherlands. The college is part of Maastricht University (Dutch: Universiteit Maastricht) and offers a selective honours programme with a high workload. The Dutch Higher Education Guide (Keuzegids Hoger Onderwijs) ranked UCM the best bachelors programme in the Netherlands in 2015 and 2016; in 2012, 2014 and 2015 they ranked UCM the best university college in the Netherlands. In 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016, Elsevier Magazine ranked UCM the best university college in the Netherlands in terms of student satisfaction.
Maastricht University, of which UCM is part, was founded in 1976, making it one of the youngest universities in the Netherlands, and as of 2014 has over 16,000 students and roughly 3,600 employees. University College Maastricht itself opened in September 2002, before moving to a new location in 2006, and currently has over 600 students.
Education at University College Maastricht, providing Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees, is fully taught in English. The College is a liberal arts college which is defined by Encyclopædia Britannica Concise as a "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional, vocational, or technical curriculum." Classes are small, with an emphasis on independent learning via a group process structured through the Problem-based learning (PBL) method. The courses of the UCM programme are contained within three concentrations namely the humanities, sciences and social sciences. Of these students are required to choose one, although a combination of two is possible, in addition to a mandatory core curriculum and self-assembled general education, the latter picked from courses in a different concentration than the individual student's chosen concentration.
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