Molecular Life Sciences

About this programme

Being a 'University for Life Sciences', Wageningen University is concerned with the improvement of the quality of life. Research and educational programmes aimed at improving the quality of life can be done on different levels of integration, varying from atoms and molecules at the smaller end of the scale, to climatic changes at the other extreme. Chemistry, biology and physics play a key role in many of these research and educational programmes that are further grouped in various University for Life Sciences domains. In some programmes the natural sciences are used in a more applied sense and in others, including Molecular Life Sciences, in a more fundamental sense, i.e. the focus is on molecules and their chemical and physical properties in relation to the context where they occur. \nThe MSc programme Molecular Life Sciences of Wageningen University provides students with a spectrum of professional and personal competencies needed to work under supervision of an academic scientist (PhD Level) in fields related to fundamental molecular aspects of the 'University for Life Sciences' domains. The main goal of the MSc programme Molecular Life Sciences is that it delivers researchers that are well prepared to do an excellent job. \nThe MSc programme Molecular Life Sciences of Wageningen University offers the following specializations: A. Biomedical Research, B. Biological Chemistry, C. Physical Biology, and D. Physical Chemistry. The programme also provides domain specific knowledge to become a fully licensed secondary school teacher in chemistry. For the latter a supplementary training in pedagogical and didactic aspects of teaching is required, which in part can be achieved in the Educational Variant. \nMission statement 'To develop the potential of students to extend molecular life sciences'.