Marine Sciences

What do you think about the Ocean Clean-up Project? Do you see offshore wind farms as a good alternative to obtaining renewable energy? Do you follow social media accounts about oceans and marine animals? Dive deeper into these topics with the Marine Sciences bachelor’s programme.

What will you study during this Bachelor’s?

The way we use the seas is changing. For food, mineral extraction, transport, wind energy and tourism. Warming seawaters, overfishing, pollution, and rising sea levels also have deep effects on ecological processes and the communities living by and from the sea. 

In the English-taught Marine Sciences bachelor’s programme, you learn to understand marine systems. Study the sea from an ecological perspective. For example, dive into the causes and consequences of ocean pollution and how the sea can contribute to a sustainable food supply.

With this bachelor’s programme, you can change the future with sustainable, inclusive solutions for nature, food, and society. 

Why this programme?

• Marine Sciences is a new scientific degree programme, unique in the Netherlands. There are no other scientific bachelor’s programmes in this field in the country.
• Since you learn about the sea from the perspectives of nature, food, and society, you soon gain enough experience to work in a collaborative, multidisciplinary way. 
• Innovative, sustainable solutions for the sea are sorely needed. This field is waiting for professionals like you.

More information about Marine Sciences

Want to know more? Continue to the WUR website. Read more about the study programme, future career, and everything about admission and application.