Student review [#20112] for Economics and Business
at Maastricht University - UM

Maastricht University is one of the most international places in whole Europe maybe even in the whole world. Students from everywhere are attending the UM classes and make the city a very warm and multicultural place. The university is known for its PBL or program based learning system which is something I really enjoyed in my first year. Students are supposed to come up with some learning goals which will be discussed in-depth in future tutorials. Each course has a length of 7 weeks in which the students are supposed to learn all the theories needed for the exam which takes place on the 8th week. Students definitely need to study in a very fast manner and spend at least 3 hours a day behind the books. Besides this, there are teamwork and real-life cases and presentations which help students bring the theory into practice. Lectures are most of the time recorded, so even if you miss one you can watch it later at home. Tutorials however have mandatory attendance of around 80% which is quite high for such education.