Population Health Management (MSc)
Admission requirements
Students with one of the following academic bachelor's degrees from a Dutch university are directly admissible to this master's programme:
- Medicine
- Biomedical Sciences
- Clinical Technology
- Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Pharmacy
- Human Nutrition
- Health Sciences
- Veterinary
- Health and Society
- European Public Health
- Medical Natural Sciences
- Care, Health and Society
All other students with a bachelor's degree, including University of Applied Sciences and foreign universities, in the field of data, governance, health, and behavioural sciences are invited to submit a request to the board of Admissions of the Master's. These requests will be individually reviewed. The Board of Admissions will assess whether:
- your degree and background are sufficiently related to the level and content of a Dutch BSc degree in a health-related programme, and;
- you have sufficient knowledge of quantitative methods (research methodoly, epidemiology and/or statistics) proven by bachelor certificates or working experience.
If you do not meet these requirements, the Admissions Board may, in certain cases, require you to undertake a tailormade pre-master's programme to enable you to meet the admission requirements
There is no numerus fixus for Population Health Management; we do not have a limited number of places. All applicants who meet the criteria will be accepted.
Additional language requirements
English language proficiency
The following requirements apply:
- IELTS Academic: 6.5 overall, with at least 6.0 for each separate component score.
For other accepted exams, including score equivalency tables and criteria for the accepted exams, refer to our English language proficiency requirements.
Note that English test results may not be more than two years old.
You do not have to submit an English proficiency test if you have completed your education in the USA, UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Canada (except French-taught programmes in Canada) Singapore, South-Africa or Malta, if you have obtained an English-taught International Baccalaureate™; if you have completed a Dutch VWO diploma or an English-taught degree at a Dutch research university or an English-taught bachelor’s degree from a Dutch university of applied sciences.
Questions?
If you have any questions about the programme itself, please contact masterPHM@lumc.nl.
If you have general questions about admissions and enrollment, please use the online contact form for the Student Affairs Front Office, using ‘Admission request’ as the subject.
Other questions? Please contact the study advisor.