Professor of bionanoscience Marileen Dogterom has won the 2025 Professor of Excellence Award. On Wednesday June 11th, she was surprised by Jenny Dankelman, the chair of the selection committee. Dogterom receives the prize in recognition of her scientific achievements, her leadership in synthetic biology and her profound impact on students and young scientists. The selection
Nine out of thirteen Dutch universities have gained ground in the global rankings published by research agency QS. TU Delft remains the highest-ranked university in the Netherlands, climbing two places to number 47. Thursday, the new QS World University Rankings 2026 were released. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) once again takes the top spot.
The language test proposed by the Dutch cabinet will not go ahead: a majority in the House of Representatives voted in favor of a motion last Tuesday to scrap it. The test could have affected four of the sixteen bachelor’s programmes offered by TU Delft. It would have meant that these English-taught bachelor’s programmes would
The number of international students in Dutch higher education is growing by just 3 percent this year. That is the smallest increase in a decade, according to the internationalisation organisation Nuffic. Contrary to this national trend, technical universities are seeing strong growth. At the start of the 2024–25 academic year, a total of 131,000 international
Starting in September 2026, students in higher education will pay 2,694 euros in annual tuition fees. This represents an increase of nearly one hundred euros. The fee is increasing in line with the relatively high inflation of the past year. In the current academic year, students pay 2,530 euros and in the 2025/2026 academic year,
Four professors and a student pastor. During the traditional honours ceremony before King's Day, they received royal decorations for their work at or related to TU Delft. Why did they receive this important award? Karen Aardal is Professor of Optimisation in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science. She received her decoration (Knight
We’ve got internationalisation under control, say universities. But then politicians need to drop the idea of a ‘language test’ for bachelor’s programmes. In the Randstad (the western part of the country, Eds.), all psychology degrees are going back to Dutch – that’s the universities’ promise. Utrecht’s economics bachelor is switching to Dutch too. On top
Eppo Bruins, the Minister of Education, wants to make it mandatory for universities and universities of applied sciences to explain their selection procedures for degree programmes. They often do not do this at the moment, while selection criteria can affect equal opportunities. In a letter to the House of Representatives (in Dutch), Bruins says that
The Bachelor's degree in Earth Sciences at the Free University (VU) will disappear if it is up to that university. As a result, 37 employees risk losing their jobs. Some students may have to find another programme, they were told last Thursday. The decision is an austerity measure. In the past year, the university announced
International students in Delft don’t immediately pack their bags once they have their Dutch diploma. Five years later, nearly four in ten are still in the Netherlands. Only international students in Eindhoven tend to stay more often. Nationwide, around 30 percent remain after five years, according to a new report (in Dutch) from the internationalisation
