Higher education in Holland
Oct 05, 2010
Holland offers over 1,500 international study programmes and courses. This number of international study programmes places Holland first in continental Europe.
Students
Total enrolment: 584,978 students; men and women in approximately equal numbers.
Average enrolment: Institutions vary in size, enrolling anywhere from 300 to 39,000 students.
Age upon entering university: Variable, but most first-year students are around 18.
Age upon graduating: Variable, but usually 22 or 23.
Study programmes
In our database you will find over 1,500 international study programmes.
Leading role
Holland plays a leading role in a broad number of disciplines.
It is particularly well-known around the world for:
- management & business studies
- agricultural sciences
- medicine
- civil engineering
- remote sensing
- arts & architecture
Dutch Nobel Prize winners
Dutch people have won 15 Nobel prizes: in the fields of chemistry, physics, medicine, economics and peace. The most recent was the Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to Gerardus‘t Hooft and Martinus Veltman in 1999 for “elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics”.