Amsterdam University College / VU and UvA sign agreement AUC

Amsterdam University College / VU and UvA sign agreement AUC

5 May 2009 at 12:01

On 23 April the Boards of the University of Amsterdam and the VU University and the Deans of the faculties of both universities signed the Joint Agreement for  Amsterdam University College (AUC). This agreement now makes AUC an official inter-university institute.

AUC will open its doors to its first 200 students in September 2009. The academic building will be located on the Plantage Muidergracht. The student residences will be located in the Science Park Amsterdam, near the new academic building of AUC which will open in 2012. Students enrolled at the AUC will be registered with both the UvA and the VU.

AUC offers an international liberal arts and sciences programme for motivated students who have demonstrated academic excellence in their pre-AUC education. Interest from prospective students has been high and the admissions process is almost complete. The calibre of applicants is high, both academically and socially, with the majority of prospective students engaged in a number of extra-curricular activities. Furthermore, the group is highly international: 41% of the applicants come from abroad, 19% are international Dutch students (that is, Dutch students who have dual nationalities, or a foreign secondary education diploma, or have lived abroad for a considerable amount of time), and the remaining 40% are Dutch.

The AUC lecturers come primarily from the VU and UvA and are also an international group. Of the AUC academic staff, approximately one-third are of foreign nationality, one-third are Dutch and one-third are Dutch lecturers who have taught or conducted their academic research abroad.

 

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