BA/BSc Liberal Arts and Sciences | Bachelor's degree | Humanities & Culture | On Campus | 3 years | University of Groningen | Netherlands

The Liberal Arts and Sciences programme is taught entirely in English and enables you to design a curriculum that suits your individual interests and ambitions. You’ll be taught in small classes, where the education is highly interactive with a strong focus on collaborative, project-based learning. Throughout the degree you’ll work in interdisciplinary teams on a series of projects where you’ll learn to apply creative approaches to find solutions for complex global challenges. The programme prepares you for further study and careers in a wide variety of MSc programs and professional fields, including MSc programs in (International) business, law, international relations, media, arts, psychology and (life) sciences and careers in for instance, research business, international policy-making and journalism. In Year 1 you gradually choose your major in respectively Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities out of a broad portfolio of courses in psychology, health and life sciences, physics, philosophy, political science, (international) business, law and economics and more. Years 2 and 3 enable you to deepen your understanding in the field(s) that interest you most by developing major specialisations in for instance, Physics; Health and Life Sciences; Brain, Behaviour and Culture, Philosophy, Politics and Economics; International Law, International Business, Media, Art or Philosophy. You also have the option to follow a ‘free major’ meaning you can select any combination from the wide range of courses on offer). Alongside your academic courses and academic projects you’ll follow courses in quantitative and qualitative research methods, logic, mathematics, and philosophy of science, and in Year 3 you have the option to study courses abroad for a full semester before completing your Capstone Project (thesis). University College Groningen (UCG) is based in the centre of Groningen, a university city with over 5000 students (roughly a quarter of the population!), and as