University of Groningen

With the city’s many bars, restaurants, theatres, museums and sports facilities, you will never get bored. If you do feel like leaving the vibrant city life however, the countryside is never far away. Take a breath of air and clear your head while enjoying the flat landscape and limitless view in all directions when you get nearer to the ‘Wadden Sea’.

University College Groningen is a residential college and therefore it is compulsory for students to live on campus for a minimum of 1 year. Accommodation provides private furnished room, shared kitchen and bathroom facilities, gas, water, electricity and wi-fi and costs approximately €480 per month plus €195 one-time registration fee. Besides, the University 3-stars Hotel in Groningen is located in the city center and within walking distance of most university centres. The hotel has 56 comfortable rooms and a cozy lounge. 

Career Services help students to make well-informed choices and gives them the opportunity to realize those choices by offering workshops and training courses, and by providing help with writing a CV and letter of application. Within the framework of Career Services, a range of activities are organized to help students make choices – and degree-programme choices in particular to prepare students for the job market. Graduates from the University of Groningen have gone to work in various sectors across the globe from governmental organisations to NGO’s or have become researchers or academics.