Admission
To join Creative Business Beyond Campus, you’ll need solid English skills. After registering, you’ll go through an intake, including a personal video call.
If you’re 21+ and don’t fully meet the requirements, you may still qualify through our 21+ admissions assessment. All of the programmes at HU University of Applied Sciences are tested and approved by the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO).
Dutch diplomas
You are admissable with:
- HAVO: all profiles 'Nieuw stijl' (from 2009)
- VWO: all profiles
- MBO: level 4
International diplomas
You must hold a secondary-school diploma at a sufficient level (comparable to the Dutch HAVO diploma).
All students, except students 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 on our language requirements.
If you are from the EU, EEA, Netherlands Antilles or Switzerland, you can apply with a valid passport or residence permit.
Non-EU/EEA students
If you are not from one of these countries, you must arrange your own visa for the in-person bootcamps in the Netherlands (if required). Since the Beyond Campus programme is largely online, HU cannot support or guarantee any study residence permit or visa application for you.
You are responsible for arranging any required visas through the Dutch Embassy in your home country. For more information, please contact the Dutch Embassy in question.
As a non-EU/EEA student, you must reside outside the Netherlands as of the first day of the academic year. If you already hold a valid residence permit or visa in the Netherlands or another EU/EEA country, you may still participate.
All students living in the Netherlands applying for a full-time study programme not subject to selection must take part in a 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 in the section below.
Go to 'Studiekeuzecheck' (in Dutch)
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.
If you do not, or not yet, live in the Netherlands, you can enroll via Studielink, after creating a username and password. The registration deadline is 1 August for 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.
To participate in this track, a student must:
- Arrange 2 mentors: one from your personal environment and one from the (non-)profit industry.
- Join our 3-day bootcamps in Utrecht—4 times a year: in September, November, February, and April or July . Each bootcamp is linked to a 15 EC course. Absence from a bootcamp for any reason will result in automatic failure of the corresponding course. Tuition fees are not refunded in such cases.
- Join our Live Labs sessions twice a week, followed by teamwork: 2 full days a week. You must participate actively in these online learning activities.
- 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. Since the programme is mostly online, we cannot support a Dutch study visa or residence permit.
