International Business and Management Studies (IBMS)

The admission requirements for the International Business and Management Studies programme are:

• IELTS score 6 or higher (every subscore
has to be 5.0)
• Positive advice based on personal interview
• At least high school certificate, equivalent to
Dutch HAVO, VWO or MBO

Bachelor Certificate

Master degree

Avans University of Applied Sciences welcomes international students!

Avans University of Applied Sciences offers professional higher education degree programmes in three main centres in the southern part of the Netherlands. Across 18 separate faculties there are currently some 40 courses, 1,800 staff and 21,000 students.

Avans offers the perfect environment for the ambitious student - many other ambitious students, a dedicated staff, close contacts with industry, great facilities, many courses which can be tailored to student requirements, good accommodation, a rewarding and lively social life, and with the support of committed student counselors and tutors, the promise of good results. Avans University of Applied Sciences currently has students from Belgium, China, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Korea, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Spain, UK and the USA. Many more are coming.

Vanishing borders, growing markets: the international environment, the place to be. Prepare yourself for take-off in this exciting world with the help of the Avans specialists. The advantages and benefits of training at Avans University of Applied Sciences are numerous. Good qualifications with the benefit of state-of-the-art courses, dedicated and motivated professors and teaching staff, and great facilities. And at the end of the learning journey, a set of friends and contacts that will offer the graduate support and networking opportunities for the rest of his or her life. Students whose mother tongue is not English will have an excellent command of spoken and written English upon graduation.

The degrees awarded are fully recognized by the Dutch Ministry of Education (and its foreign equivalents), and are comparable to the UK four-year BA honours degree, a USA Bachelor’s degree, the Diplom-Betriebswirt in Germany or the Maitrise in France. It goes without saying that we are NVAO accredited. NVAO is the official accreditation authority of the Netherlands and Belgium.

The degree programmes offered by Avans University of Applied Sciences rank very high in the annually published listings. Among the Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences, Avans belongs to the top institutes. These rankings are based on the opinions of students and alumni. The university is very proud that students regard the programmes and professors as belonging to the top in
the Netherlands.

Avans Scholarship Programme for Best Performing Non-EEA Students

Avans University of Applied Sciences offers a scholarship programme for the best performing non-EEA students. Scholarships are available each year to approximately 80 top-ranking, eligible students for all Avans programmes. In order to qualify for Avans Scholarship Programme students are required to have paid their tuition fee as well as having obtained 60 ECTS during the academic year. The scholarships are autiomatically awarded to the eligeble top ranking students at the end of each academic year, so there is no need to apply for the Avans Scholarship Programme. Students may recieve a maximum of two scholarships during their entire study programme and the amount is around 3,000 Euro per year.