Student Coach

Do you find it difficult to choose the right MSc programme? Then maybe you should contact one of the student coaches of Wageningen University. These coaches can answer all your questions, like what is the added value of a Master for me? What are my career possibilities? What is the difference between the Bachelor programme at my current college or university and Wageningen University? Your student coach can inform you about the promotional activities of Wageningen University, and gives advice which activity to join, to get all your questions answered.  

Wageningen University, voted number 1

For the fifth year in a row, the ‘Keuzegids Universiteiten’ (a guide that offers independent information about all Dutch universities) selected Wageningen University as the best university in the Netherlands. The ranking is based especially on student opinions and judgements. In Wageningen, it is particularly the ‘small scale atmosphere’ that students appreciate most. ‘Agricultural Technology’ is judged to be the best BSc programme, for the second year in a row.

Fiona's student life

Read the weekly column of Fiona, Master student Landscape Architecture and Planning.
Brains were expanding this week: my housemate had a 5 day PhD course with hot-shot Professors of Ecology and Epidemiology; meanwhile there was a symposium with WUR’s own prize-winning Professor Scheffer who developed the theory of tipping points in natural processes. Less intellectual (but just as important!) was the organisation of my thesis contract, and workspace. Suddenly I’m finding that permaculture (my topic) is everywhere. A Sustainable Buildings lecture included a film on Cuba where permaculture is popular. And friends have been passing on information - a permaculture course in Amsterdam, a contact on the MID who studied it for his Bachelor thesis etc. That’s what I love about this place - enthusiasm and cross-disciplinary thinking…