Admission

You are admissable with:

• HAVO: all profiles 'Nieuw stijl' (from 2009)
• VWO: all profiles
• MBO: level 4

You must hold a secondary-school diploma at a sufficient level (comparable to the Dutch HAVO diploma).

Recognised Diplomas

Eligible students from the EU, EEA, Netherlands Antilles, or Switzerland must hold one of the following diplomas (or an equivalent qualification recognised in their country):

• Bulgaria: Diploma za Sredno Obrazovanie 
• China: Senior middle school diploma and Huikao (regional examination) certificate 
• France: Baccalaureate 
• Germany: Abitur (Zeugnis der Allgemeine Hochschulreife) or Fachhochschulreife 
• Romania: Baccalaureate
• United Kingdom: minimum of four GCSEs/IGCSEs at grade A, B, or C and two A/AS levels in six different subjects 
• United States: High school diploma with college preparatory programme 
• European Baccalaureate Diploma 
• International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma

For diplomas from other countries, or for confirmation of equivalence, please check the Nuffic database of foreign education systems 

Students from the EU, EEA, or Switzerland can apply with a valid passport or residence permit. 

Students from outside the EU, EEA, or Switzerland must arrange their own visa (if required).

All students, except those with a relevant Dutch diploma, must prove that they have good writing and conversation skills in English. If English is not your native language, you must provide a result from an internationally recognised test of English:

• IELTS: minimum score 6.0
• TOEFL: minimum score 550 (213 computer-based, 80 internet-based)
• C1 Advanced (formerly: Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English)

You may be granted exemption from the English language test based on your diploma. Read more information our language requirements.

If you do not, or not yet, live in the Netherlands, you can enroll via Studielink, after creating a personal username and password. Registration deadline is 1 August (EU students). On their website, you can create your Studielink account.

Students living in the Netherlands—including non-Dutch nationals—can enroll as well as apply for student grants and loans via Studielink (in English, Dutch and German). For this, you need a DigiD login code, which takes up to five days to obtain. The closing date for registration on most programmes is 1 May.

All students living in the Netherlands applying for a full-time study programme not subject to selection must take part in an obligatory programme selection check. This check consists of an intake form and a matching meeting (video call). Both are mandatory.

Please note: for the purpose of the selection check, students living in the Netherlands Antilles (BES and CAS Islands) are considered foreign students. The information relevant to this group can be found below.

EU, EEA, Netherlands Antilles or Switzerland 

For students from outside the Netherlands but a citizen from the EU, EEA, Netherlands Antilles or Switzerland applying for our full-time study programme, the same intake procedure applies: an intake form and a matching video interview with the programme coordinator. The sooner you register the better.

Other international students

To apply, you will need to fill in an intake form and do a matching video interview with the programme coordinator.  The sooner you register, the better.

As your presence in Utrecht is required four times per year, enrolling will mean you commit to arranging the needed visas (if required) yourself. You can do this at the Dutch Embassy in your country of residence.

Since our programme is not full-time on-campus, we cannot support a Dutch study visa or residence permit.

To participate in this track, a student must: 

• Arrange 2 mentors: one from your personal environment and one from the (non-)profit industry.
• Commit to joining our 3-day bootcamps in Utrecht, 4 times a year; not joining a bootcamp will result in failing a 15EC course.  
• Commit to joining our Live Labs sessions twice a week followed by teamwork: 2 full days a week. 
• Have a stable internet connection, webcam and microphone.
• Be a citizen of the EU, EEA, Netherlands Antilles, or Switzerland, or hold a pre-arranged visa that allows you to attend all bootcamps in Utrecht. Full attendance is required to access each course; missing one bootcamp means you will fail the corresponding course. Since the programme is mostly online, we cannot support a Dutch study visa or residence permit.