[Update] Preliminary positive judgment for first Bachelor’s programme Campus Rotterdam

[Update: 27 June 2026, 9.15 AM and 29 June 2026, 12.12 PM]

The new interfaculty Bachelor’s programme in health and technology has received a preliminary positive judgement from the evaluation panel of the accreditation organisation NVAO. This judgement was given at the end of the site visit. On Thursday 25 June, the intranet stated that the accreditation had been finalised, but that post – which had the name of Dean Cokky Hilhorst of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management below it – has since been removed. According to a spokesperson, it was an editorial error.

The programme, a collaboration between five TU Delft faculties, Erasmus MC and Erasmus University, is set to launch in 2027 and plays a central role in the plans for Campus Rotterdam.

The Bachelor’s programme focuses on major challenges in healthcare, such as an ageing population, staff shortages and rising costs. Students are trained to become engineers capable of shaping technological and systemic changes in healthcare.

Manageable steps

A Participatory Value Assessment previously revealed that staff and students were divided over the TU Delft’s plans for Rotterdam: a significant proportion supported the plans only under certain conditions, such as financial certainty and demonstrable added value for education and research.

According to the programme team, work is underway to meet these conditions. For instance, chair Maaike Kleinsmann and vice-chair Han Derkx previously emphasised in Delta that ‘no step will be taken without funding’ and that development is taking place in small, manageable steps.