The Faculty of Biology of the Vrije Universiteit was founded in 1955. The Faculty counts more than 200 staff members and 800 students. Biology is the Science of Life.
Life manifests itself in many different ways and under very different circumstances.
This means there are many disciplines that study particular aspects of life. The regular study programmes of the Faculty therefore involve a continuous necessity of making choices between general and specific approaches. Members of all research groups are responsible for the study programme of the first year. The student should use this year to select the topics he wants to study more thoroughly. In the following years this selection of topics leads to specialization directed either towards an intended job or to research in a specific field.