University College Roosevelt

University College Roosevelt is part of Utrecht University and was founded in 2004. UCR was named after various members of the Roosevelt family, who hail from the Province of Zeeland, where UCR is located. The four main academic buildings are aptly named after Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Anne Roosevelt.

Transformative learning is an approach to learning and teaching that assumes that learning is not just about acquiring knowledge, but about discovering who you are and want to be or become as a student, as a person, and as a global citizen. 

Teaching is all about enabling that adventure of discovery. One of the great attributes of UCR’s Liberal Arts and Sciences approach to undergraduate education is that it fosters and supports such transformations. 

One of the distinguishing features of UCR is our emphasis on undergraduate research. Since they believe that studying is essentially about asking the right questions and having the methodological tools to answer them, all of the students take mandatory courses in research methodology.

Moreover, students will be involved in research projects from their first semester onwards. Many of its former students have conducted original research, together with their professors, and presented the results at conferences or in academic journals.