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Hbo degree programmes have a professional orientation. Wo degree programmes have an academic orientation. Hbo Bachelor's programmes take four years (240 ECTS). Wo Bachelor's programmes take three years (180 ECTS).
Higher professional education (HBO): Concrete, practical. Research university (WO): The emphasis is on learning to look analytically and critically at the way a certain field can be approached. Higher professional education (HBO): Higher professional education trains for a specific profession.
HBO or Hogeschool institutes are focused on applied higher education and usually offer 4-year Bachelor programs geared more towards the practical labor market. The academic universities (WO) are the highest possible level of education in the Netherlands.
Higher vocational education (HBO) The 43 HBO institutions in the Netherlands together offer 200 programmes in a wide range of disciplines. They provide theoretical and practical training for occupations for which a higher vocational qualification is either required or useful.
HBO prepares students for certain professions (hoger Beroeps onderwijs), WO prepares students for an academic/scientific future where they do research ( Wetenschappelijk onderwijs).
In the Netherlands there are two types of Bachelor’s degrees: hbo (higher vocational education) and wo (research university). The bachelor’s diplomas of higher vocational education and the university offer you the same title, but are not identical.
You have a Bachelor’s degree from a Dutch university of applied sciences (hbo) in one of the relevant sciences: chemistry, physics, mathematics or computer science. If you have a Bachelor’s level teaching qualification in Informatics (HBO tweedegraads lerarenopleiding in Informatica) you do qualify for a pre-Master programme of 30 EC, and ...
