Overview

The Hydrology programme offered at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam offers interdisciplinary perspectives, a personal teaching style, and has a hands-on, international and real-world approach.

During the programme you will gain skills that allow understanding the processes driving the water cycle, and enable you to address risks related to water quantity (such as floods and droughts) and water quality (such as pollution).

Careers and opportunities

• Hydrologists are needed everywhere. After completing this Master’s programme, you will have a broad range of career opportunities. 

• In your professional career, you could work at organisations such as:

• National and international consultancy companies; such as Royal Haskoning DHV, Arcadis, Fugro, Sweco, Tauw, Future Water

• Universities in the Netherlands or abroad

• National and provincial government bodies dealing with water such as Rijkswaterstaat

• Water supply companies; such as Vitens

• National and international institutes for applied research and policy support; such as Deltares, TNO, KNMI, Environmental Assessment Agency

• Water boards; such as Waternet, Waterschap Limburg

• NGO’s and think-tanks; such as Red Cross, the Nature Conservancy, World Resources Institute, Wetlands International

• International institutions; such as the World Bank, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, World Food Programme

Open Days

Join the Online Master’s Event on Thursday, 26 November, or the International Master’s Webinar on Tuesday, 6 October, to learn more about the programme and studying at VU Amsterdam.