Computational Science (joint degree UvA/VU)
The grand challenges of our time — from climate change to personalised healthcare — demand computation. In this joint Master's of UvA and VU you learn to develop and apply computational methods, from physics-based simulation to machine learning, to solve complex problems across science and industry. 🌟 Master the computational methods that drive science and industry – and apply them to the challenges that matter most.
Language of instruction
English
Mode
Full-time
Location
UvA Science Park and VU Campus
🌟Become an expert in a rapidly evolving discipline
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Master's Week: 2-6 Nov
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Master's Week 8 -11 Feb
Here's why you want to study Computational Science in Amsterdam
Model, simulate, and solve complex problems
Build predictive models and simulations grounded in mathematics and domain knowledge using modern computational tools. Learn to explain natural systems through simulations.
Graduate with skills that cross every industry boundary
Simulation, numerical methods, data analysis, high-performance computing — the methodologies you master here are in demand in healthcare, energy, finance, logistics, and R&D.
Two universities, one degree
Choose courses across UvA and VU — from computational physics and biomedicine to evolutionary computing and financial modelling.
Computational Science will suit you, if you want to...
- Build computational models that help us understand and respond to climate change or design sustainable energy systems.
- Predicts how epidemics spread, how cities respond to crises, or how social systems evolve.
- Develop the simulations and risk models that banks and fintechs rely on for billion-euro decisions.
- Simulate the outcome of surgical procedures to help clinicians plan treatment before they operate.
Joint degree programme with VU Amsterdam
Computational Science is a joint degree programme of the University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Courses are taught at locations of both universities. UvA and VU jointly issue a degree certificate to graduates. As a Computational Science student in Amsterdam you benefit from expertise, networks and research projects at both universities and affiliated research institutes.
Facts & Figures
- Degree programme
- MSc Computational Science
- Type
- Regular study programme
- Mode
- Full-time
- Credits
- 120 ECTS, 24 months
- Language of instruction
- English
- Starts in
- September
- RIO code
- 65015
- Location
- UvA Science Park and VU Campus
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