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Research Zernike (ZIAM) Education Top Master Program in Nanoscience

Curriculum outline

The Top Master programme in Nanoscience has a two-year curriculum (equivalent to 120 ECTS). New students can commence with the programme once each year, around 1 September. For a good overview, we present the two-year curriculum at a glance in this pdf-document. In short, the first year starts with lectures, self study, and exercises. The second year is mainly focussed on the master thesis project.

These are the main elements of the curriculum:

*If you have no access to the links above, please check the link below. Here an overview of year 1 and year 2 is provided.

Overview of the whole programme in Ocasys: Master's degree programme Nanoscience


The number between brackets indicates the number of acquired ECTS per course unit from 2023-2024.

Year 2
Semester I
Semester II
Period I a wk 1-10
Period I b wk 11-22
Period II a wk 23-32
Period II b wk 33-43

Master Thesis (45)

PhD Research Proposal (6)

Electives, see above


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