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
Four lecturers have been nominated for Lecturer of the Year 2025: two from a university and two from a university of applied sciences. The winner will receive a grant of 25 thousand euros for educational innovation. It is the eleventh time that the prize will been awarded. One of the contenders is from TU Delft:
For the fourth consecutive year, university enrollment has declined. This is shown by the final counts. Universities in Maastricht, Amsterdam, and Nijmegen in particular are seeing losses, while technical universities and Rotterdam are recording growth. In September, nearly 58,500 students started a university bachelor's degree, one percent less than last year. This is mainly because
Lecturers, researchers, and other staff in higher education are planning to go on strike to protest the Government's budget cuts. It will be a ‘relay strike’. The idea of the relay is for a different university or university of applied sciences to strike each time. The FNV union informed its members that ‘How each institution will
