Education

"How can you know so much about the Universe, just from a few dots in sky?" That's what it's all about in astronomy. With the little information received from space, answer question about planets, stars, galaxies and the origin of the Universe. Astronomy is also a science where there is still a lot to discover, without locking yourself away for years with endless piles of paper filled with formula's: just look and discover!

At the University of Amsterdam, astronomy is part of the faculty of science. The bachelor starts very broad: you follow course in astronomy, as well as in physics and math, and even informatics and statistics.

In the second bachelor year, you do a project which gets you acquainted with actual research. That's the year when you decide whether you specialise in astronomy. Only in the third year, this choice is definite; you finish the third year with another project, the bachelor project.

The fourth and fifth year, you can then continue with a master study.