Masters in Ecology | Master's degree | Science | On Campus | 2 years | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Netherlands

Ecologists investigate the relationships between organisms and their environment. As a master’s student you will study how nature works both as an aim in itself (to understand and explain why the world looks like this) as well as to develop the tools to predict and combat problems caused by pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change. You will study Ecology from a plant, animal and systems perspective. Moreover, ecological and evolutionary processes are investigated in their broadest sense, from the molecular level all the way up to the regional and global scale, where field observations and experiments are used to identify evolutionary and/or ecosystem patterns and functions. This VU master programme in Ecology and Evolution, taught together with the University of Amsterdam (UvA), has an explicit research-oriented character. This specialization is designed to provide students the knowledge, skills and insights to operate as an independent professional scientist in the fields of ecology and evolution and to become a promising candidate for a subsequent PhD position or other research-related function in a fundamental or applied ecological field.