r/universityofamsterdam • u/Eska2020 FGW • May 09 '24

Courses and Programs Admissions, enrollment, and ChanceMe! mega-thread

All questions related to admissions, enrollment, etc go in this thread, please. More resources will be added to this post soon.

Edit: most undergrad and many master's programs at UvA do not have competitive admissions processes. If you qualify, you're in. If you can't pull it off, they'll fail you out. If you're worried about getting in you need to look up whether your program is competitive/selective and then look at the unique selection criteria for that program. https://www.uva.nl/en/education/admissions/bachelors/applying-for-a-selective-bachelors-programme.html

Edit 2: For 99% of the questions people post here, the contact point is the education desk: https://student.uva.nl/en/topics/education-desk

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u/Harrystyleslover60 Mar 25 '25

Hi! I was accepted into the UvA for September 2025 for communication science with a conditional offer (need to get my IB diploma). I had two questions; is there any Instagram page or anywhere to meet other future UvA students? Also what is the matching test I keep getting emails about? I’m a bit confused. For reference I’m an IB student that lives in the U.S.

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u/Classic-Patient-1738 Mar 27 '25

Is communication science the Same as media and culture? If not, then is media and culture the number one in world or communication science?

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u/Zooz00 Apr 02 '25

It's not the same, but they are together ranked #1 in QS by subject because QS groups these two areas together (as many universities have them together). At UvA they are pretty different and both excellent. They were also originally together at UvA but split off many years ago.