Student review [#4520]
at Maastricht University - UM
Maastricht, The Netherlands
I’m a second-year Psychology student at Maastricht University. The main point that distinguishes this University from other Universities (in Holland) is their so-called Problem Based Learning (PBL) system. The main part in every PBL-session is that you discuss the literature that you’ve read along with about 10 other fellow-students. The advantage of this system is that it more or less forces you to prepare for every meeting, making sure that you study throughout the whole course. Up until now, I have passed all of my exams and I think it’s mainly due to this system.
Even though this system sounds really great, it makes you also a lot more dependent on your fellow students. It is sometimes unclear if a certain topic is important to know, and tutors do sometimes lack knowledge about certain topics, leaving questions unanswered.
So, even though the PBL-system at Maastricht University is definitely a helpful system providing more and effective learning, it still lacks certain things that should be looked into to improve the system even more.