Abraham Kuyper, who would later become the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, founded the VU University Amsterdam in 1880. In the beginning, the university was only open to Reformed Christians and was financed entirely by donations. Ever since the 1960s, the university has been open to everyone and is funded in the same way as […]
Higher Education in the Netherlands is mainly divided into three tiers: Academic Universities Universities of Professional Education (aka Universities of Applied Sciences) All other universities and colleges In this post I am focusing on the first of these three tiers. Below I am listing the main websites of the Academic Universities of the Netherlands, grouped […]
Are you looking for scholarship or grant or fellowship to study in the Netherlands, make sure you check out our section Scholarships, Grants and Fellowships. This section lists undergraduate and postgraduate (bachelor, master, PhD) grants for foreign/international students. So if you are looking for a student scholarship, you are advised to check out our Scholarships, Grants and […]
At times I will post a guest entry on this website. This one is from Romana, an international student who studied in Groningen in the college year 2004-2005. If you are interested in also posting story here, please feel free to contact me. Contrary to popular belief not everyone in the Netherlands wears clogs, lives […]
A group of international students were asked a few years ago to write something about their interpretation of Dutch Culture. I managed to get a hold of these. Below you can find small excepts of what they wrote: Excerpt 1 Maybe the biggest difference in cultures is the fact that the Dutch don’t appreciate it if […]
