Excellent learning outcomes

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) awarded the programme with an excellent qualification on the achieved learning outcomes. The four aspects, discipline specific requirement, requirements for an academic orientation, the quality of academic staff and the coherence between structure and content in the programme were granted with the label good. This accreditation is a significant proof of quality available in the Netherlands, based on analysis of the programme, quality control, teaching staff and results.

Good research environment

The review committee of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences states that "the programme is embedded in a very good research environment [...] with good interaction between teaching and research" They hold a high appreciation for the "learning outcomes of the students, who are very ambitious; the research theses are of a very high level; lecturers and management ooze excellence".

The committee feels that "the programme stimulates integration between the different perspectives of the three tracks" and finds it positive to see that "the programme is a learning organisation" throughout the years.

Interdisciplinary organisation

The Research Master Brain and Cognitive Sciences is an initiative of the Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam, an interdisciplinary research platform of the University of Amsterdam. The organisation of the programme is coordinated by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies since 2004. Currently 104 students from all over the world are enrolled in the programme.