Maastricht University - Campuses

Campuses

Maastricht University has two campuses: the city centre campus, consisting of a number of historic buildings housing the humanities and social sciences faculties, and the modern Randwyck campus in the southeastern part of the city, which has become the university’s centre for the medical, health, psychology and life sciences. The Randwyck campus includes the university hospital. Initial plans in the 1960s and 1970s, in line with infrastructural plans at other public universities in the Netherlands, envisaged a functional, single-campus university to be established in the largely undeveloped Randwyck district. These plans never fully materialized, in part because university administrators and staff considered the UM’s presence in the historic inner city to be important asset in attracting prospective students. Instead, the university developed in a bipolar way with campuses at both sides of the river Meuse. This bipolarity is symbolized in the university's logo by two triangles pointing to each other.

In recent years, the university has opened offices in the northern Limburg city of Venlo, the Belgian capital of Brussels and the city of Bangalore, India.