Further down on this page you can find lists of recommended electives and other immediately available electives. You can freely choose any of these courses as electives, and they appear on the registration form in the Student Self-Service.
Please note that even though all the courses are available as electives, you should still consider whether you meet any academic preconditions mentioned in the course description before you register.
The text below is an example based on the Master's degree programme in Mathematics. Each programme will have its own variant of this foldout item, if relevant.
Whenever your course of study includes constituent courses or a thesis preparation activity, you can choose from among a limited selection of courses and projects.
Constituent courses
As constituent courses on the Master's degree programme in Mathematics, you can choose from among all elective Master- and PhD-level courses offered by the Faculty of Science within the subject areas: Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science.
Courses with the following codes are allowed:
- DM8xx
- DM2xx
- MM8xx
- MM2xx
- ST8xx
- ST2xx
- IADM8xx
- IAMM8xx
- IAST8xx
Thesis preparation activities
Your course of study states which courses and projects can be taken as thesis preparation activities.
A few electives offered by the Faculty of Science have a capped number of participants.
Procedure for courses with a waiting list
You must have registered for the course in time.
Additionally, you must meet any entry requirements.
We assess all timely registered students when we allocate places for courses with a capped number of participants in case the number of registered students exceeds the number of students places on the course.
The two most commonly used prioritisation methods are the following:
- The timely registered students are prioritised administratively, according to when they registered for the course.
- The timely registered students are prioritised by the relevant academic environment at the Faculty of Science on the basis of a number of criteria, which are stated in the course description.
The specific method used for prioritisation is stated in the comments field in the course description.
At any time, PhD students are given first priority for PhD-level courses.
You will be notified by e-mail if you are not admitted to the course. In such case, you will be placed on a waiting list.
If you have been admitted to a course with a waiting list, you must attend the first lesson in order to keep your place on the course or otherwise notify the teacher that you wish to keep your place. This also applies if you are absent due to illness.
If you fail to attend the first lesson without notifying the teacher beforehand, you will be deregistered from the course.
Even if you have been placed on a waiting list for a course due to capacity issues, you should attend the first lesson anyway.
If you have been admitted for a course with a waiting list, but fail to attend the first lesson, you lose your place on the course. Any vacant places will be allocated to students on the waiting list, according to their placement order in the waiting list. Only students attending the first lesson will be considered for a place in the course.
Once teaching has started, the waiting list is annulled.
As a Master's degree student, you can take Bachelor-level courses as electives, as long as they are outside your primary field of study.
Courses that overlap with constituent subject elements, or which overlap with already passed subject elements, cannot be approved as electives.
3 exam attempts
You have 3 exam attempts to pass each elective. As a general rule, if you do not pass within the 3 attempts, you will be discharged from your programme. Therefore, it it important that you carefully consider which electives to take before you register.
Substitution of electives
If certain criteria are met, you can substitute one elective for another until three weeks after the semester has started.