Study Biology in English
1) Erasmus programme
You come as an "Erasmus" student and follow part of
your curriculum at the VUB, it can be a semester, a whole academic
year, the Master thesis or eventually a summer stage.
A large number of courses
of the Master programme are offered in English to all students.
Courses are grouped in semester modules of 30 ECTS. Note that
none of the Bachelor classes are offered in English.
You can contact the Biology departement for help in setting-up the curriculum
you want to follow here.The Biology coordinator is Franky.Bossuyt@vub.ac.be
Note that all professors and assistants speak English.
For more general information about the Erasmus programme at
the VUB, please go here and
for information for prospective students, go here.
Be aware that your home University should have an agreement with
the VUB to allow for Erasmus exchanges. If it is not the case,
such an agreement can be concluded but it takes nearly a year
before
it is effective.
2) Enrollement as a regular student
Since a large number of courses of the Master programme are
offered in English to every Biology student, it is possible to
complete the two years of the Master in Biology in English.
Note that this is a completely new possibility (the Master starts
in 2007-08) so contact us for confirmation.
However, to be able to enroll as
a regular student, you must have a good command of English.
In
short, to study at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel a certificate
of good command of English is ALWAYS required (except for native
speakers).
This is covered by:
See the VUB webpage about the language tests here.
We are sorry but several details of the Master
program are not yet finalized and it is not yet
available
online. It should be available in in November.
If you are interested, you can always contact
the Head of the department or the secretary.
Study Biology in Dutch
It is possible for non-Dutch speakers to study Biology in Dutch.
Two possibilities are offered:
1) Erasmus programme
You come as an "Erasmus" student and follow
part of your curriculum at the VUB, it can be a semester,
a whole
academic
year or eventually
a summer stage.
You can contact the Biology departement for help in setting-up
the
curriculum
you
want to
follow here. The Biology coordinator is Franky.Bossuyt@vub.ac.be
Most of the Erasmus students are following courses in English
(at Master level see below)
but it is also possible to follow courses in Dutch, even if you
are not a Dutch native speaker.
The Erasmus
office
at the VUB organizes Dutch language classes in Augustus-September
to help you and the VUB has a language departement and a special
ATHOS program (here)
to help raising and refining the Dutch level of students. Moreover,
a language
school for adults where you can learn/improve
your Dutch is located on campus.
Note that all professors and assistants speak English.
For more general information about the Erasmus programme at
the VUB, please go here.
Be aware that your home University should
have
an agreement
with
the
VUB to
allow forErasmus exchanges. If it is not the case, such an
agreement can be concluded but it takes nearly a year before
it is effective.
2) Enrollement as a regular student
To be able to enroll as a regular student, you must either have
followed at least one year of academic classes in Dutch
(for example your last year of high school in a Flemish school)
or you must pass a language
test. See the VUB webpage about the language tests here.
In short, the language departement of the VUB organizes tests
during september before the start of the academic year. You
can also pass the test (either PAT or PPT level) organized by
the CNaVT organization which
delivers the Certificate of Dutch as a foreign language (the
Dutch equivalent of the English TOEFL).
This test is organized (generally in May) on the VUB campus
by the language school for
adults.
Contact: The secretary and the Head
of the Biology department
Mrs. G. Guns
Secretary DBIO
Faculty of Sciences
Pleinlaan, 2
1050 Brussels
Belgium
+32 (0)2 629 34 05
E-mail: gguns@vub.ac.be
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Prof. Dr. Nico Koedam
Head of dept - DBIO
Faculty of Sciences
Pleinlaan, 2
1050 Brussels
Belgium
+32 (0)2 629 34 13
E-mail: nikoedam@vub.ac.be
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