Joint Degrees

Joint degrees

• Application and enrolment

  In a joint degree programme, you are enrolled at two or more universities and take courses at two or more universities. You can also use all the facilities at the participating universities. One university organises the enrolment of the programme, the main institution.

  You submit a request for (re)enrolment to the main institution via Studielink and complete your application via that university. The enrolment is then automatically exchanged with the other university or universities. You are then fully enrolled at two (or three) universities. You do not have to do anything for this yourself. You will automatically receive your login information for the other university(s).

  Please note that enrolment information is not shared until you are fully enrolled at the main institution. This can be important if you want to register for courses at the partner institution. You will not have access to that until your enrolment is also registered there. Therefore, you must first complete your enrolment with the main institution.

  The VU offers joint degree programmes in cooperation with the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Protestantse Theologische Universiteit (PThU) and Leiden University (LEI). The table below tells you at which university you must complete your (re)enrolment.

  Bachelor's programmes	Register at (main institution)	In collaboration with
  B Liberal Arts and Sciences*	UvA	UvA
  B Theology (fulltime and parttime)	VU	PThU
  B Physics and Astronomy	UvA	UvA
  B Chemistry	UvA	UvA

  Master's programmes	Register at (main institution)	In collaboration with
  M Bioinformatics and Systems Biology	VU	UvA
  M Chemistry (fulltime and parttime)	UvA	UvA
  M Computational Science	UvA	UvA
  M Computer Science	VU	UvA
  M Educatieve Master Primair Onderwijs	VU	UvA, LEI
  M Entrepreneurship	VU	UvA
  M Oral Health Sciences	UvA	UvA
  M Physics and Astronomy	UvA	UvA
  Research Master Business Data Science	EUR	EUR, UvA
  Tinbergen Institute Research Master in Economics	EUR	EUR, UvA

  * Please note: An exception applies to this application process. For the Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, you apply directly via the Amsterdam University College application form. You can find more information via the AUC website. 

• Amsterdam University College (AUC)

  Application for the Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences is via the AUC application form. You can find more information via the AUC website. 

• Registration for courses and exams

  Please note: Automatic enrolment does not mean that you are automatically registered for courses and exams. Registration deadlines may differ between institutions. You can only register for courses once your registration is complete. Most compulsory courses are administered by the main institution. This means that you do the course registration there and you use that institution's Canvas. For some subjects, you have to register with the partner institution and you use Canvas from that institution.

  VU

  At VU, you must arrange your course registration via the registration module. You can find the VU registration deadlines here. You cannot register for courses at VU until your registration is complete.

  PTHU

  Registration for PThU courses is also done via the VU's registration module.

  UvA

  The UvA's registration deadlines are very different from those of VU. Therefore, for courses at the UvA, as a VU student (main institution VU), you will be manually enrolled for compulsory courses in the first semester of the first year. To take courses, you register for your subjects via GLASS from the second semester onwards. More information can be found on the UvA website.

  EUR

  You can register for courses and exams at EUR via the study information system OSIRIS. On the EUR website you can find more information about registration and deregistration deadlines for exams.

  LEI

  Within the EMPO programme, we collaborate with Leiden University. For subjects in Leiden, you have to register yourself, both for compulsory subjects and electives, via MyStudyMap. More information can be found on the Leiden University website.

• Grades

  Grades you obtain within the UvA-VU collaboration are automatically shared. You do not need to take any action yourself to do this. For other collaborations or if a course is not part of your Joint Degree programme (extra-curricular), the grade may not be exchanged. The grade can then be registered for inclusion in your programme if you submit a certified grade list to the main institution. Only after approval from the examination board will the grade be processed. At VU Amsterdam, you can submit externally achieved results.

• Canvas, email, course schedule

  You will receive a different account at all the universities where you have an enrolment. After completing your registration, you will automatically receive your login details from the other university or universities. 

  Note: You will receive information from all the institutions involved, which can be confusing, as you will not see the information relevant to you all in one place. You will also receive some information that is not relevant to you. Make sure you especially monitor the communication from the main institution. 

  Email

  Your VU email account can be found in your profile. You can easily log in via your dashboard.

  Once your registration with the main institution has been completed and the registration has been passed on to the partner institution, you will also receive a login code from that institution to log in to Canvas, your schedule, the registration module and your email account at the partner institution. 

  Course schedule

  The schedules from VU and the other institutions can be synchronised with your private calendar on your phone. See for instructions rooster.vu.nl and the websites of the other institutions. This way, you have insight into the timetables of all courses scheduled at both locations. 

• Student card and facilities

  Student card

  You receive a student card for every university you are enrolled in for a full-time programme, so for both (or all three) universities that offer your Joint Degree.

  Library and sports facilities

  In addition, you may use all facilities of the main institution and partner institution(s), such as student counsellors and psychologists, the library and sports facilities.

• Visa / residence permit and accommodation

  Are you an international student and do you require the accommodation and visa services of the university? Then this is done via the main institution. Please keep in mind the conditions that apply.

  When you arrange your re-registration and have to do so at the university that did not arrange your accommodation or visa in previous years, nothing extra needs to be done. Re-enrolling at the other university does not affect your visa and housing contract.

  The university that initially applied for the residence permit remains the referent for the IND throughout your studies.

• Graduation / diploma

  Joint degree students receive a diploma from the main institution. The diploma lists all the educational institutions of the joint degree. It also states in DUO that the degree was offered by two universities.

• Deregistration

  If you terminate your enrolment with the main institution via Studielink, your enrolment in this programme will be terminated simultaneously at both universities.