Research schools and Top research schools

Below find an overview per research discipline of all (top) research schools Utrecht University participates in. 

Please note:
UU means that Utrecht University is the coordinating university
Top school means it is a top technological institute.

The schools marked with an asterisk (*) have not been assessed by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Research Schools for Biomedical Sciences

• Centre for Biomedical Genetics (UU - Top school)
• The Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular research (UU)
• Graduate School for Biomedical Image Sciences, ImagO (UU)
• Institute and Graduate School of Biomembranes (IB) (UU)
• Eijkman Graduate School (UU)
• Helmholtz Institute (UU)
• Utrecht Graduate School of Cancer Genomics & 
  Developmental Biology (UU)
• Rudolf Magnus Graduate School of Neuroscience (UU)  
• Inter-university Dentistry Research School
• Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences
• VLAG Graduate School - Food Technology, Agro-biotechnology, Nutrition and Health Sciences

Research Schools for Natural Sciences and Geosciences

• Buys Ballot Research School: School for the Study of Fundamental Processes in the Climate System (UU)
• Debye Institute (UU)
• Dutch Research School of Theoretical Physics (UU)
• Vening Meinesz Research School of Geodynamics (UU)
• Mathematical Research Institute (UU)
• Dutch Institute for Catalysis Research (UU)
• Research School of Biodiversity
• Dutch Centre for Geo-ecological Research
• NRSC Catalysis (Top school)
• Dutch Research School of Sedimentary Geology
• Dutch Research School for Astronomy (NOVA) (UU – Top school) (website in Dutch only)
• Experimental Plant Sciences Graduate School (EPS)
• Subatomic Physics Research School
• Functional Ecology Research School*
• Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment (SENSE)
• Dutch Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science (Top school)
• Centre for Technical Geoscience (CTG)
• Dutch Graduate School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture (WTMC) 

Research Schools for Behavioural and Social Sciences  

• Research School for Resource Studies for Development (CERES) (UU)
• Netherlands Graduate School of Urban and Regional Research (NETHUR) (UU)
• Research Institute for Psychology & Health (P&H) (UU)
• School of Human Rights Research (UU)
• Research School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies (CNWS)
• European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER)
• Inter-university Graduate School of Psychometrics and Sociometrics (IOPS)
• Inter-university Centre for Educational Research (ICO) (website in Dutch only)
• Institute for the Study of Education and Human Development (ISED)
• Inter-university Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS)
• Ius Commune Research School
• Kurt Lewine Institute
• Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG)
• Dutch-Flemish Postgraduate School for Experimental Psychopathology (EPP)

Research Schools for the Humanities

• Dutch Graduate School of Linguistics (UU)
• Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) (UU)*
• Dutch Postgraduate School for Art History (UU)
• Dutch School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion 
  (NOSTER) (UU) 
• Dutch Graduate School in Logic (UU)*
• Netherlands Graduate School for Literary Studies (OSL) (UU)*
• Research School for Research in Practical Philosophy/Ethics Institute*
• N.W.Posthumus Institute - research school for economic and social history
• Huizinga Institute – Graduate School of Cultural History
  (website in Dutch only)
• Netherlands Research School for Medieval Studies (website in Dutch only)
• National Research School in Classical Studies (OIKOS)   

Research Schools for Information and Communication Technologies

• Institute for Programming research and Algorithmics
• Advanced School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI)
• School for Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS)
• Research School for Biomedical Image Sciences, ImagO (UU)