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They are accredited to confer bachelor's, master's and (with the exception of the Netherlands Defence Academy) doctoral degrees. Prior to the Bologna Process, the universities granted drs. (doctorandus), mr. (for law studies) and ir. (for engineering studies) degrees, which are equivalent to current MA, LLM or MSc degrees.
The University Library (UB) is the largest library at the University of Amsterdam. The Plantage Muidergracht Laboratory. The University of Amsterdam is one of Europe's largest research universities, with over 7,900 scientific publications in 2010. [8] The university spends about €100 million on research each year via direct funding.
Instruction at the undergraduate level tends to be in Dutch, but it is in English for most Masters and PhD programs. Dutch universities used to offer only four- or five-year courses. Since 2002 most of them now offer three-year undergraduate programmes, leading to a bachelor's degree, and one- or two-year Master's programmes.
Degree programs at iSchools include course offerings in areas such as information architecture, design, policy, and economics; knowledge management, user experience design, and usability; preservation and conservation; librarianship and library administration; the sociology of information; and human-computer interaction and computer science.
The Benno Premsela building of the university. Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (abbreviated as: AUAS; Dutch: Hogeschool van Amsterdam) is a large vocational university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The AUAS offers bachelor programmes, and a number of (professional) master programmes. For students from the AUAS' international ...
Graduates receive a joint degree from the University of Amsterdam and Vrije University; a Bachelor of Arts in the social sciences or humanities or a Bachelor of Science in science. Students that graduate with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher receive an honours degree.
The ILLC started off in 1986 as Instituut voor Taal, Logica en Informatie (ITLI; Institute for Language, Logic and Information). In the beginning, it was an informal association of staff members from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Faculty of Philosophy, and was joined by computational linguists from the Faculty of Humanities in 1989.
Information science (often termed as library and information science) is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources; and the political economy of information.