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Hbo Bachelor's programmes take four years (240 ECTS). Wo Bachelor's programmes take three years (180 ECTS). The minimum admissions requirement for an hbo Bachelor's programme is a diploma at Dutch mbo level 4 (senior secondary vocational education) or Dutch havo (higher general secondary education).
HBO. Universities of applied science (hogescholen) offer higher professional education (hoger beroepsonderwijs, HBO) is more practically-oriented than WO. HBO consists of 7 sectors: economics; healthcare; agriculture; education; social and community work; art; technology
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. You apply your knowledge and work in a solution-oriented way.
Tu Eindhoven, JADS, Twente University, Nijmegen University, Wageningen University and the Open University are WO institutions. The rest are not. Usually at HBO institutions - of applied sciences is added.
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.
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 ...
HBO level education focuses more on practical and professional education while WO is academic and scientific. Before the Bachelor/Master system was introduced, HBO graduates received the title baccalaureus (with the corresponding pre-nominal abbreviation "bc."), which was rarely used.
