马斯特里赫特大学

University College Venlo (UCV) is unique. You follow your interests and select your own courses. This enables you to study issues related to food, nutrition and health in an interdisciplinary manner. It is increasingly recognised that food can be regarded as medicine and can be used in either the prevention or the treatment of various chronic diseases. With the help of your personal academic advisor, you build a tailor-made bachelor's programme and for example study this topic as nutritional pharmacotherapy (medicine 2.0). The central part of your study programme is made up by courses within the concentration of your choice: Social sciences or Life sciences. In the Social sciences concentration, you can choose courses in fields such as Psychology of eating, Economics and Behavioural change. The Life sciences concentration offers courses like Biology, Epidemiology of Food, Pharmacology and Toxicology and Datamining. Combining courses from different disciplines will help you develop a distinct academic profile, perfecty adapted to the master’s programme or professional position you aim for University College Venlo (UCV) is unique. You follow your interests and select your own courses. This enables you to study issues related to food, nutrition and health in an interdisciplinary manner. It is increasingly recognised that food can be regarded as medicine and can be used in either the prevention or the treatment of various chronic diseases. With the help of your personal academic advisor, you build a tailor-made bachelor's programme and for example study this topic as nutritional pharmacotherapy (medicine 2.0). The central part of your study programme is made up by courses within the concentration of your choice: Social sciences or Life sciences. In the Social sciences concentration, you can choose courses in fields such as Psychology of eating, Economics and Behavioural change. The Life sciences concentration offers courses like Biology, Epidemiology of Food, Pharmacology and Toxicology and Datamining. Combining courses from different disciplines will help you develop a distinct academic profile, perfecty adapted to the master’s programme or professional position you aim for.

Why this programme?

Does eating fatty fish make you smarter? Does chocolate cheer you up? Would you like to know how 'unnatural' E numbers are? And find out which eating habits keep us healthy and prevent disease? Then University College Venlo (UCV) is the programme for you. At UCV, you have the opportunity to focus on Food, Nutrition & Health in an interdisciplinary manner. At UCV 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, physiology and genetics).

Your future

Depending on the concentration you have chosen, you will receive a Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree upon graduation. Because you design your own curriculum, the possibilities after graduation are almost endless. Depending on the courses you have taken, you will be eligible for a broad range of master’s programmes at Maastricht University or elsewhere in Europe and beyond. Because of the close link to businesses and a focus on applying knowledge, you will also be well prepared to start your professional career.

You might find a job as:

• Marketeer in the food industry at companies such as Nestlé or Tony's Chocolonely
• Advisor at a 3D food printing company
• Psychologist in a hospital
• Smart food developer at TNO
• Policymaker at the World Health Organisation
• Legal food claims advisor for quality labels such as Eko, Bio and Demeter