Oral Health Sciences is a joint degree programme of 2 universities: VU Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam.
The programme has evolved out of 5 dental differentiation programmes, offering (clinical) education at ACTA for many years. The average minimum time commitment is 40 hours per week. Students are at ACTA 3-5 days per week, depending on the chosen graduation profile. Combining your study with work is possible, but we do recommend you to discuss this beforehand with the relevant profile director. Note: combining 2 graduation profiles is not possible.
4 components
The following 4 components are offered throughout the entire programme:
- In the joint courses the focus is on the interprofessional exchange of dentists’ experiences and current literature to stay informed within all fields of dentistry (30 ECTS);
- in the research track the research skills are further developed culminating in a thesis (24 ECTS);
- in the profile specific theoretical courses in-depth knowledge of seminars, specialist literature and debates is gained (36 ECTS);
- in the profile specific clinics dentists acquire the necessary clinical competences of their graduation profile (90 ECTS).
Study guide
Visit the Study guide for the most recent study guide and extra information about each graduation profile.