Extra opportunities

The Utrecht University Business Course (UUBC) was created in the academic year 2012/2013 for UU’s most excellent master’s students that want to go beyond academic training by making a mark on the world outside.

First-year Master’s students of the Utrecht University Graduate School of Natural Sciences (GSNS) or Life Sciences (GSLS) can enroll in the QBio honours programme while continuing their Master’s programme.

U/Select (Utrecht Selective Life Sciences Extracurricular Track) is the Life Sciences Honours Programme for selected students of the Graduate School of Life Sciences. It is a two-year extracurricular programme for excellent student who seek to broaden their horizon and who want to get more out of their Master’s programme.

The goals of U/Select are:

• to broaden and deepen your study programme in extra and special learning experiences;
• to be part of a community of excellent students in life sciences;
• to be able to write a research proposal and execute this during your minor research abroad;
• to have a better start position for the next step in your (study) career; 
• to build your network beyond your own Master’s programme.

During the Graduate Honours Interdisciplinary Seminars (GHIS) you will meet students from other disciplines in a series of small-scale seminars. Under supervision of leading UU researchers you will study socially relevant themes. These research themes vary from privacy and globalization to DNA and complex systems. You follow one seminar per study period and conclude the year with an interdisciplinary group project. 

GHIS is offered in English and available for all Master’s students from the UU.

Young Innovators is an honours programme for curious and involved students that like to commit to challenges about sustainability and societal wellbeing. You’re a changemaker working for and on a better world. Young Innovators allows you to work in interdisciplinary teams on projects that shape social innovation. 

Young Innovators is offered in English and available for all Master’s students from the UU.

In the Leadership Programme you discover what kind of leader you are or want to be. You apply knowledge from different disciplines to real leadership dillemas and get a better understanding about what it means to be a leader in a globalising world. You follow workshops (i.a. public speaking skills, conflict management) taught by experts ranging from UU professors and external lecturers. During the interactive and intimate College Tours you can engage with leaders from different domains in society. You finish the year by working with a leader as part of the Leader to Shadow component. 

The Leadership Programme has both an English and Dutch track and is available for all Master’s students from the UU.