Every student has certain rights and obligations. And every year, we list the most important regulations in a revised version of the Student Charter. You can also find programme-specific rights and obligations in the Education and Examination Regulations (OER-HU) and the study guide for your degree programme. So you know exactly where you stand.

The Student Charter

The Student Charter (2024-2025) offers a general survey of our main agreements as to what you are and aren’t allowed to do as a HU student and refers to the specific regulations in which this is further specified.

Study guides and Education and Examination Regulations

The Education and Examination Regulations (EER-HU) set out HU students’ rights and obligations as far as education, reviews and examinations are concerned.

The study guides provide further details on your rights and obligations at the level of your individual degree programme as set out in OER-HU. In addition, these guides offer substantive information about each programme: from subjects and themes to practical information.

Appeal procedure

You are free to formally lodge an appeal to a decision taken by HU if you disagree with it. You may believe that your examination work was incorrectly assessed, for example. Or you may disagree with the study advice issued to you, because your performance was affected by personal circumstances.

Lodging an appeal is fairly straightforward. At the bottom of the decision is stated how and in which time limit you have to lodge your appeal.

To guarantee that you provide all the required information, please use the digital form. After you have completed and submitted the form, your appeal will be heard by HU’s Legal Protection for Students Office.

Please note: be sure to lodge your appeal within six weeks of the date of the decision.

Christmas recess

From 23 December until 5 January the Board of Appeal, the Disputes Advice Committee, and the Student Complaints Committee will have a schedule-free period (Christmas recess). All appeals will be put on hold until after the recess period.

Any appeals lodged in this time period will we processed as quickly as possible after recess ends by the HU Legal Protection for Students Office, and sent to the relevant institute directors and examination board. The processing of already lodged appeals will also be resumed after recess ends.

Download the current regulations

Several regulations are only available in Dutch. You can find the ones below on HU.nl:

  • Cyberwijzer - Gedragsregels ICT-faciliteiten HU
  • Gedragscode taal HU
  • Privacyverklaring HU studenten
  • Profileringsfonds Afstudeersteun
  • Profileringsfonds Noodfondsregeling
  • Profileringsfonds Kennisbeurzen
  • Profileringsfonds Topsportregeling
  • Profileringsfonds Bestuursbeurzenregeling
  • Profileringsfonds Collegegeldvrij besturen
  • Reglement Certificeringscommissie HU
  • Reglement Ombudsman HU
  • Reglement Studentendecanen HU

For the following regulations visit our Governance-page:

  • HU Participatory Decision-Making Regulations
  • HU Board and Administrative Regulations
  • Articles of Hogeschool Utrecht Foundation
  • Code of Conduct: International Student in Higher Education

Several regulations are only available in Dutch. You can find the ones below on HU.nl:

  • Huishoudelijk Reglement Raad van Toezicht
  • Regeling Ongewenst Gedrag
  • Reglement Auditcommissie RvT
  • Reglement Commissie onderwijs en onderzoek RvT
  • Reglement Selectie en Remuneratiecommissie