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List of universities in the Netherlands#Universities of applied sciences

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A listing of universities in the Kingdom of the Netherlands:

Research universities

Research universities in the Netherlands are institutions of tertiary education that in Dutch are called universiteit. Their focus is towards academic education and scientific research. They are accredited to confer bachelor's, master's and (with the exception of the Netherlands Defence Academy) doctoral degrees. Prior to the Bologna Process, the universities granted drs. (doctorandus), mr. (for law studies) and ir. (for engineering studies) degrees, which are equivalent to current MA, LLM or MSc degrees. The term universiteit is reserved to doctorate granting institutes in the Dutch context, and the additional qualifier "research" is hardly ever used in practice.

There are Semi-Public Universities and Private Universities in Netherlands. The semi-public status of most Dutch universities arises from the fact that they have both public and private characteristics. In this respect, their public funding is entirely output-based, determined by the number of undergraduate and graduate degrees delivered. Except for this output-based funding, Dutch universities are largely private entities that, since 1998, own and operate their real estate at their own risk;Algemene Rekenkamer, Vastgoed bij universiteiten: Twintig jaar na overdracht van eigendom (Real estate of universities: Twenty years after the transfer of ownership), 2018. Available from: https://www.rekenkamer.nl/publicaties/rapporten/2018/01/18/vastgoed-bij-universiteiten moreover, all employees of Dutch universities have labor contracts based on private sector terms (as of 2020).{{cite web | url=https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/werken-in-het-onderwijs/verandering-rechtspositie-medewerkers-in-het-openbaar-onderwijs | title=Verandering rechtspositie medewerkers in het openbaar onderwijs - Werken in het onderwijs - Rijksoverheid.nl | date=21 March 2018 }}

class="wikitable sortable"
colspan="2"|NameEstablishedUniversity statusCityOrganisationTypeNumber of staffNumber of students
colspan="10" style="text-align:center; background:#eee;"|Members of the Universities of the Netherlands association
colspan="2"|University of Amsterdam{{cite web|title=Facts and figures|publisher=University of Amsterdam|url=http://www.english.uva.nl/about_the_uva/facts_and_figures/key_figures.cfm|access-date=2011-07-09|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110624213653/http://www.english.uva.nl/about_the_uva/facts_and_figures/key_figures.cfm|archive-date=24 June 2011|df=dmy-all}}16321877Rüegg, Walter (ed.): A History of the University in Europe. Vol. III: Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945), Cambridge University Press {{ISBN|978-0-521-36107-1}}, pp. 39Amsterdamrowspan="3" |Semi-publicrowspan="3" |Research universityrowspan="3"|4,062rowspan="3"|32,739
Academic Medical Center1983Amsterdam
Amsterdam University College2008Amsterdam
colspan="2"|Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam18801880Amsterdamrowspan="3"|Special: Protestantrowspan="3"|Research universityrowspan="3"|2,200rowspan="3"|18,000
VU University Medical Center1964Amsterdam
Amsterdam University College2008Amsterdam
colspan="2"|University of Groningen16141614Groningenrowspan="2"|Semi-publicrowspan="2"|Research universityrowspan="2"|5,000rowspan="2"|26,500
University Medical Center Groningen2005Groningen
colspan="2"|Leiden University15751575Leidenrowspan="3" |Semi-publicrowspan="3" |Research universityrowspan="3" |3,973rowspan="3" |19,328
|Leiden University Medical Center1996Leiden
Leiden University College The Hague2010The Hague
colspan="2"|Maastricht University19761975Maastrichtrowspan="3"|Semi-publicrowspan="3"|Research universityrowspan="3"|3,000rowspan="3"|11,463
Academic Hospital Maastricht1974Maastricht
University College Maastricht2002Maastricht
colspan="2"|Radboud University Nijmegen19231923Nijmegenrowspan="2"|Special: Catholicrowspan="2"|Research universityrowspan="2"|4,309*rowspan="2"|17,650*
Radboud University Medical Center1956Nijmegen
colspan="2"|Erasmus University Rotterdam19131937Rotterdamrowspan="3" |Semi-publicrowspan="3" |Research universityrowspan="3" |3,70026,212{{cite web |url=https://www.eur.nl/fileadmin/ASSETS/ieb/jaarverslagen/2015/UK_jaarverslag_2015.pdf |title=Annual Report 2015 |publisher=Erasmus University Rotterdam |access-date=2017-01-04 }}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Erasmus MC1950Rotterdam

|3,361

Erasmus University College2013Rotterdam

|270

colspan="2"|Tilburg University19271939Tilburgrowspan="3"|Special: Catholicrowspan="3"|Research universityrowspan="3"|1,062*rowspan="3"|11,399*
University College Tilburg2008Tilburg
TIAS School for Business and Society1982Tilburg
colspan="2"|Utrecht University16361636Utrechtrowspan="3" |Semi-publicrowspan="3" |Research universityrowspan="4"|8,224rowspan="4"|26,787
University Medical Center Utrecht1999|Utrecht
University College Utrecht1998Utrecht
University College Roosevelt2004Middelburg

|Semi-public

|University College

colspan="2"|Delft University of Technology18421905DelftSemi-publicTechnical university5,40024,000
colspan="2"|Eindhoven University of Technology19561956EindhovenSemi-publicTechnical university3,00012,000
colspan="2"|University of Twente19611961EnschedeSemi-publicTechnical university3,0008,500
colspan="2"|Wageningen University and Research Centre2000rowspan="2"|1918Wageningenrowspan="2"|Semi-publicrowspan="3"|Technical universityrowspan="3"|6,500##rowspan="3"|12,847
Wageningen University1876Wageningen
Agricultural Research Institutes1877throughout the NetherlandsResearch Institute
colspan="2"|Open University in the Netherlands19841984Nationwide; main office in HeerlenSemi-publicOpen university67316,888{{cite web|url=https://www.ou.nl/documents/14956/38699/Jaarverslag_en_jaarrekening_2014.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-09-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150805152323/https://www.ou.nl/documents/14956/38699/Jaarverslag_en_jaarrekening_2014.pdf |archive-date=5 August 2015 |df=dmy }}
colspan="10" style="text-align:center; background:#eee;"|Other universities
colspan="2"|University of Curaçao19791979CuraçaoPublicNational university
colspan="2" |University of Humanistic Studies

|1989

|1989

|Utrecht

|Semi-public

|Research university

|150

|550{{Cite web|title=Introduction - University of Humanistic Studies|url=https://www.uvh.nl/university-of-humanistic-studies/about-our-university/introduction|access-date=2020-08-19|website=www.uvh.nl}}

colspan="2" |{{ill|Netherlands Defence Academy|nl|Nederlandse_Defensie_Academie}}

|1823

|2005

|Breda/Den Helder

|Special: National Military Academy

|Military Academy, since 2005 includes Department of Military Sciences

|~75

|~200

colspan="10" style="text-align:center; background:#eee;"|Privately Funded Universities (accredited as Universiteit by Dutch law) (by type)
colspan="2"|Nyenrode Business University19461982BreukelenPrivateBusiness school
colspan="2"|Protestant Theological University18541939KampenPrivateUniversity for Protestant Theology
colspan="2"|Theological University of Kampen18541939KampenPrivateUniversity for Protestant Theology
colspan="2"|Theological University of Apeldoorn18941962ApeldoornPrivateUniversity for Protestant Theology
colspan="10" style="text-align:center; background:#eee;"|Universities that no longer exist
colspan="2"|Catholic University of Utrecht1991–2007UtrechtPrivate: merged into University of TilburgUniversity for Catholic Theology
colspan="2"|University of Harderwijk1648–1811Harderwijkdisbanded by Napoleon
colspan="2"|University of Franeker1585–1811Franekerdisbanded by Napoleon
colspan="2"|University of Nijmegen1655–1680Nijmegenclosed in the aftermath of the 1672 rampjaar
colspan="2"|University of Theology and Pastorate1966-1999{{cite web|url=http://www.fontys.nl/ctp/publicaties.63366.htm |title=Centrum Theologie en Pastoraat - Publicaties |access-date=2008-01-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112184358/http://www.fontys.nl/ctp/publicaties.63366.htm |archive-date=12 January 2008 |df=dmy }}HeerlenPrivate: merged into Radboud University Nijmegen in 1993, Heerlen location closed 1999University for Catholic Theology

† 2003–2004; ‡ 2004–2005; # 2005–2006; * 2006–2007; ##including research staff at the associated institutes. All figures without signs are estimates or from undated sources. According to Dutch law, it is illegal to use protected titles which can only be given by universities that are accredited. Protected titles are ing. bc. mr. ir. drs. and dr.{{cite web|url=http://www.ib-groep.nl/Images/5263E_tcm7-13910.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-10-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124103810/http://ib-groep.nl/Images/5263E_tcm7-13910.pdf |archive-date=24 November 2010 |df=dmy }} English variants (MSc BSc MA BA LLB LLM BEng PhD) are not (yet){{cite web |url=http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/ministeries/ocw/documenten-en-publicaties/kamerstukken/2010/04/06/uitvoering-motie-bescherming-naam-universitei.html |title=Uitvoering motie bescherming naam universiteit | Kamerstuk |website=Rijksoverheid.nl |access-date=2016-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528115142/http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/ministeries/ocw/documenten-en-publicaties/kamerstukken/2010/04/06/uitvoering-motie-bescherming-naam-universitei.html |archive-date=28 May 2013 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} protected by Dutch law{{cite web|url=http://www.briskmagazine.nl/00/artikel/756/Zet_gerust_MBA_achter_uw_naam.html |title=Briskmagazine.nl: Zet gerust MBA achter uw naam |access-date=2010-06-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617231835/http://www.briskmagazine.nl/00/artikel/756/Zet_gerust_MBA_achter_uw_naam.html |archive-date=17 June 2009 |df=dmy }} (but using the title "dr." based on a PhD degree, without permission from DUO, is a violation of Dutch law as the title "doctor" is protected). One may bear in the Netherlands foreign titles according to the laws of the country wherein they were granted, but without translating them in Dutch.

Universities of Applied Sciences

Universities of applied sciences (Dutch: hogeschool) in the Netherlands are focused on professional education rather than scientific research. While the literal translation of hogeschool is "high school", these are second-tier institutes of higher education, and can be compared with colleges or polytechnics or similar in other countries.

They are accredited to confer bachelor's and master's degrees. Prior to the Bologna Process, they also conferred professional engineer's (abbreviated ing.) degrees. Dutch universities of applied sciences are not accredited to confer doctoral (PhD) degrees; PhD studies can sometimes be conducted in the context of a university of applied sciences, however, the title will be granted by one of the research universities, and a full professor of that university will be appointed as principal supervisor (promotor).

In international contexts, the phrase University of Applied Sciences is used for the majority of these schools, as suggested by the Dutch Minister of Education.{{cite web |url=http://www.minocw.nl/documenten/Brief%20naamgeving%20HBO-raad%20aangepast.pdf |title=Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap | Organisatie | Rijksoverheid.nl |website=Minocw.nl |access-date=2016-08-01 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Some specific exceptions have been made. For example, tertiary art schools and schools of education use an internationally recognisable name of choice.

The Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences funded by the governement are:

= Former Universities of Applied Sciences (not exhaustive) =

  • Stoas Hogeschool, Dronten, 's-Hertogenbosch, Wageningen => part of: Aeres Hogeschool
  • Christelijke Agrarische Hogeschool Dronten, Dronten => part of: Aeres Hogeschool
  • Christelijke Hogeschool Nederland, Leeuwarden => part of: NHL Stenden Hogeschool
  • Hogeschool De Horst, Driebergen => part of: Hogeschool Utrecht
  • Hogeschool Helicon, Zeist => part of: Hogeschool Leiden
  • Hogeschool Domstad, Utrecht => part of: Hogeschool Utrecht
  • Hogeschool Edith Stein / Onderwijscentrum Twente, Hengelo => part of: Saxion Hogeschool
  • Hogeschool voor Economische Studies (HES), Amsterdam => part of: Hogeschool van Amsterdam
  • Hogeschool voor Economische Studies (HES), Rotterdam => part of: Hogeschool Rotterdam

Private For-Profit Medical Schools

Although there are none of these schools in the mainland, many exist in the Dutch Caribbean either in the special municipalities of the Netherlands or constituents countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Only one (Saba University) has direct accreditation from Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders, which accredits universities in the Netherlands and Flanders.

Private For-Profit Business Schools and other Universities of Applied Sciences

A number of private universities of applied sciences (hogescholen) are active in the Netherlands. Some of these are exclusively distance learning (online) medium learning providers.

  • EuroPort Business College (defunct)https://www.ad.nl/rotterdam/europort-business-school-is-accreditatie-definitief-kwijt~a97f3ec0/ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}
  • HBO Nederland (defunct){{cite web | url=http://www.hbonederland.com/nl/welkom/waarom-hogeschool-hbo-nederland | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180404215731/http://www.hbonederland.com/nl/welkom/waarom-hogeschool-hbo-nederland | archive-date=4 April 2018 | title=Waarom Hogeschool HBO Nederland - Hogeschool HBO Nederland }}
  • Hogeschool Tio
  • Inter College Business School, Amsterdam
  • Islamic University of Rotterdam, Rotterdam
  • Leidse Onderwijs Instellingen (LOI)
  • Markus Verbeek Praehep
  • NCOI
  • Nederlandse Talen Instituut (NTI)
  • Schoevers
  • Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences, Apeldoorn

Webster University: The American University in the Netherlands

Webster University Leiden is a university outside the Dutch system, offering Bachelor and Master programs in the Netherlands. Webster University is a private, non-profit American university, accredited in the United States by the Higher Learning Commission's North Central Association. The International Business and Management program, as well as the Applied Behavioral and Social Sciences program are accredited in the Netherlands by the NVAO at the hbo (professional master) level.

International rankings

In relation to their population size, Switzerland (first), Sweden (second) and the Netherlands (third) are the three countries with the highest number of universities among the 100 best of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (2014-2015).{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21646987-competition-among-universities-has-become-intense-and-international-top-class |title=Top of the class |newspaper=The Economist |date=2015-03-28 |access-date=2016-08-01}}

Below are shown the international rankings of the government funded research universities of the Netherlands, and the number of times they rank in the top 200 of one of the six prominent global rankings:

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: left;"
University

! data-sort-type="number" | QS World
(2025){{cite web|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings|title=QS World University Rankings 2025|access-date=16 July 2024|publisher=Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd.}}

! data-sort-type="number" | THE World
(2025){{Cite news|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2025/world-ranking|title=World University Rankings 2025|work=Times Higher Education (THE)|access-date=9 October 2024|language=en}}

! data-sort-type="number" | ARWU World
(2024){{cite web|url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2024|title=2024 Academic Ranking of World Universities|access-date=24 August 2024|publisher=Shanghai Ranking Consultancy}}

! data-sort-type="number" | USNWR World
(2024–25){{Cite news|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings|title=2024-2025 Best Global Universities Rankings|work=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=7 July 2024|language=en}}

! data-sort-type="number" | CWTS Leiden
(2024){{cite web|url=https://www.leidenranking.com/ranking/2024/list|title=CWTS Leiden Ranking 2024 - PP top 10%|access-date=7 July 2024|work=Centrum voor Wetenschap en Technologische Studies (CWTS), Leiden University}}

! data-sort-type="number" | CWUR World
(2025){{cite web|url=https://cwur.org/2025.php|title=Global 2000 List by the Center for World University Rankings; 2025 Edition|access-date=7 June 2025|work=Center for World University Rankings (CWUR)}}

! #a

align="left"|University of Amsterdam

|55

|58=

|101-150

|33=

|54

|83

|style="background-color:white" |{{align|right|6b}}

align="left"|Utrecht University

|105=

|66c

|55

|46

|71

|78

|style="background-color:white"|{{align|right|6b}}

align="left"|Leiden University

|141=

|73=

|101-150

|56=

|72

|88

|style="background-color:white"|{{align|right|6b}}

align="left"|University of Groningen

|159=

|80=

|69

|76=

|97

|104

|style="background-color:white"|{{align|right|6}}

align="left"|Erasmus University Rotterdam

|158

|107=

|101-150

|70=

|104

|111

|style="background-color:white"|{{align|right|6}}

align="left"|Wageningen University and Research

|155=

|67=

|151-200

|113=

|75

|193

|style="background-color:white"|{{align|right|6}}

align="left"|Delft University of Technology

|49

|56=

|151-200

|187=

|117

|269

|style="background-color:#F3F3F3"|{{align|right|5}}

align="left"|VU University Amsterdam

|221

|136=

|151-200

|78

|60

|159

|style="background-color:#F3F3F3"|{{align|right|5}}

align="left"|Radboud University

|272

|143=

|101-150

|117=

|80

|172

|style="background-color:#F3F3F3"|{{align|right|5}}

align="left"|Maastricht University

|230=

|132=

|201-300

|179=

|169

|264

|style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|{{align|right|3}}

align="left"|Eindhoven University of Technology

|136

|185=

|401-500

|374=

|177

|366

|style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|{{align|right|3}}

align="left"|University of Twente

|233

|180=

|401-500

|412=

|274

|463

|style="background-color:#C0C0C0"|{{align|right|1}}

align="left"|Tilburg University

|347=

|251-300

|701-800

|631=

|197

|733

|style="background-color:#C0C0C0"|{{align|right|1}}

align="left"|Open University

|N.A.

|N.A.

|N.A.

|N.A.

|N.A.

|N.A.

|style="background-color:#A9A9A9"|{{align|right|0}}

align="left"|University of Curaçao

|N.A.

|N.A.

|N.A.

|N.A.

|N.A.

|N.A.

|style="background-color:#A9A9A9"|{{align|right|0}}

align="left"|University of Humanistic Studies

|N.A.

|N.A.

|N.A.

|N.A.

|N.A.

|N.A.

|style="background-color:#A9A9A9"|{{align|right|0}}

Notes:

N.A.: Not Applicable

a Number of times the university is ranked within the top 200 of one of the six global rankings.

b The university is ranked within the top 150 of all six global rankings.

c THE World University Rankings 2023 (rankings thereafter are not available).

See also

References

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External links

  • [http://www.nvao.net Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO)]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20090603034045/http://www.ib-groep.nl/zakelijk/HO/CROHO/Raadplegen_of_downloaden_CROHO.asp CROHO (the official register of all recognized Dutch higher education studies)]

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