University of Amsterdam - UvA Speciality : Psychology
programme: Psychology

The wide range of disciplines included within the study program allows you to experience a wide range of topics. I appreciated that we were not limited to learning in one way, we were taught about various approaches to research, experiments, or understanding. One thing that posed an issue is the lack of flexibility, the university is extremely unaccommodating even with extreme circumstances.

I obtained Bachelor’s in Psychology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Pros&Cons of this study program:

Pros: very high-quality study program, most lecturers are true professionals in their field, possibility to tailor the program according to your own interests, huge emphasis on scientific critical thinking.

Cons: few weekly contact hours (therefore, harder to make friends with your fellow students), exams every/other month (very high pace, can be exhausting), hard to combine studies and internship/part-time job timewise

Generally about UvA: huge uni (more than 40k students), campus spread across the city.

The psychology bachelor was an in-depth all-around program. At times, things could have been better organized and attention to the students’ needs could have been taken more into account.
Overall, I was really happy with the programme

I liked that it was a 3-year programme, so it was more intense than in other countries while at the same time it included all the relevant information. I liked the autonomy they gave us and the topics they covered. However, the way of teaching was too theoretical and not that practical. Also, the first year was way too intense compared to the others, it should have been more balanced.