Best Master's Thesis

The Best Master's Thesis Award is an annual award. The award winner will be announced during the ceremony for the Start of the Academic Year in September. 

The winner will receive an award which consists of a certificate and €1,500.

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Criteria

Nominees need to meet certain specific criteria. The submitted graduate thesis or -research must for instance have received a mark of at least an 8.5. You cannot submit your thesis yourself; the thesis has to be submitted by the Director of Education or the Research Director of the Master’s programme for which the thesis was written.

Candidates can be nominated until 1^st of June 2023.

Download the full list of criteria (pdf) and the submission form, Best Master’s Thesis category (.doc).

The jury 2022-2023

There is an open position for Sciences.

• Dr. W. (Wouter) Boon, Geosciences
• Prof. dr. ir. J. (Jos) Malda, UMC Utrecht and Veterinary Sciences
• Prof. dr. N. (Niels) Bosma, Law, Economics and Governance
• dr. ir. J. (Jesus) Rosales Carreon, Geowetenschappen
• Open position, Sciences
• Dr. C. (Christianne) Smit, chair, Humanities
• Dr. S. (Sabine) Uijl, University College Utrecht
• Prof. dr. Marian Jongmans, Social and Behavioural Sciences

Secretary: Angela Schluter (a.e.schluter@uu.nl), Corporate Office

More information: Angela Schluter (a.e.schluter@uu.nl), Student and Academic Affairs’ Office

Archive

Also see the Archive of thesis awards, for the nominees and winners of previous years.