The University of Amsterdam is an excellent university in the center of Amsterdam. Over 27,000 students attend Amsterdam’s university every year, and Amsterdam attracts Europeans from all over. The University of Amsterdam is the best in the Netherlands, one of the best in Europe, and in the top fifty of the world. This university has seven main courses of study: Humanities, Social sciences, Economy, Law, Science, Medicine and Dentistry. This college competes often with the other university located in Amsterdam, VU University. The University of Amsterdam wasn’t always great. When it was a privatized college, it only had a few hundred students and a handful of faculty. Not until the government took control of it did the university make any name for itself. In fact, not only make a name for itself it became one of the best universities in all of Europe. The University of Amsterdam is a now a competitive, well known school.