NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor in Business Administration
Leeuwarden, Netherlands
BBA
DURATION
4 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
TUITION FEES
EUR 9,975 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for non-EU/EEA students | EU/EEA students: EUR 2,601 per year
Key Summary
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Why choose the Business Administration degree from NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences?
- Work on challenges set by industry to provide solutions to current issues
- Gain international experience in an international class, studying abroad, and working with international companies
- Benefit from a hands-on approach with practical challenges in combination with enhancing your academic skills
- Work on your personal development with your study coach
Unique offering for the Netherlands
NHL Stenden offers first-year students a housing guarantee through its accommodation partners. Sign up on time, and you’ll easily find the right place for you. Check out our housing page for more information and the terms of our housing guarantee.
Your future
You know what is needed to help a department contribute successfully to the overall company objectives.
Career opportunities
- Branch manager running the national or international branch of a large organisation
- Operations management consultant
- Project manager ensuring that a project runs smoothly in a profit or nonprofit organisation
- Business consultant helping solve an organisation’s issues by applying your analytical expertise
- Process manager continuously analysing, designing, documenting, improving and implementing processes and work instructions
- Team leader coordinating the activities in a team, representing the team and facilitating its performance
- Account manager representing an organisation and liaising with clients
The practical way you learn
During your studies, you carry out practical assignments from real companies, working in groups and coached by lecturers and professionals with relevant professional experience. It’s a way of learning, an educational concept, we call DesignBased Education. You learn to draw on feedback to adapt your ideas and become more flexible, while also developing your teamwork and leadership skills.
There’s a world to explore
Our international community brings together over 80 nationalities on our campuses. It’s an open environment that will help you broaden your horizons in many respects. And we offer more options to get you ready for an intercultural work environment. For instance, you could do one of the programmes offered by RUNEU or, depending on your degree, do your internship abroad or follow a minor subject in a different country through our Grand Tour or Exchange programmes. You get to put together the right combination of courses and internships for you and develop both your professional and personal skills.
Course structure
- Year 1 – Explore the operational side of management and the day-today business of an organisation, including customer contact, process management and organisational behaviour. Learn about business at local, national and international level and what you can then expect from your future line of work.
- Year 2 – Develop your insights and decision-making skills at a tactical and strategic level and ain insights into business processes and the quality of an organisation. You also develop personal skills such as cooperation, presentation and reflection.
- Year 3 and 4 – During years 3 & 4, you personalise your study to suit your particular field of interest by following a minor, internship and graduation project of your own choice. This can be in the Netherlands or anywhere else in the world. Years 3 and 4 also include a final mandatory module
If you are thinking about applying to NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, you may be eligible for a scholarship. NHL Stenden offers 2 different scholarships for Non-EU/EEA bachelor students.
NL Scholarship
The NL Scholarship is financed by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and Dutch research universities and universities of applied sciences. These scholarships award selected international undergraduate students from outside the EU/EEA with a one-time financial contribution of € 5000.
NHL Stenden Excellency Scholarship
The NHL Stenden Excellency Scholarship is a performance-based scholarship for 1st and 2nd year non-EU/EEA students at NHL Stenden.
All degrees offered by NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences are accredited by the NVAO in the Netherlands (The Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders).
NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences challenges its students, staff and partners to explore beyond existing solutions and possibilities, to discover and develop their talents so as to contribute to social progress.
- Learn using a practical approach, working in groups on assignments set by industry partners and developing usable solutions
- Get more international opportunities and spend part of your degree studying or doing your internship in a different country, drawing on our global network
- Get the most out of your studies with relatively low tuition rates, well-priced housing (and a housing guarantee) and homely and affordable student cities