NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor in Information Technology (IT)Emmen, Netherlands
DURATION
4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
01 Aug 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
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
Introduction
Why choose the Information Technology from NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences?
- Learn by doing and work on real industry cases
- Work with the latest innovative devices
- Specialise in a minor subject such as Certified Ethical Hacking or Hack@Sea both unique in Europe
- Benefit from the personal attention our campus in Emmen offers
- Work on personal development with your study career coach, map out your study path
- Gain international experience with a period of study and an internship abroad
- Enjoy excellent job opportunities upon graduation
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.
Study at NHL Stenden webinar
Join us for an online webinar where our student hosts will help you on your way with your adventures in the world of international studies. Get guidance, ask questions, and find out what is the right choice.
Career Opportunities
Your future
With your highly developed conceptual skills and your ability to work in and manage a team, you’ll have a variety of careers open to you.
Career opportunities
- Software engineer developing specific software for companies and institutions that better serves their clients
- Certified Ethical Hacker acting as an advisor on IT security matters
- Full stack developer design, develop and maintain both the backend and the frontend components of software applications
- IT Consultant evaluating a company’s IT system to help them achieve their business goals
- Embedded systems engineer programming for embedded systems (devices, machines, robots)
Curriculum
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 – Work on your basic programming skills, and apply your skills in project work, setting up a database, programming a robot and turning your own idea into reality.
- Year 2 – Learn to program efficiently and effectively, master algorithms and data structures, and improve your programming skills in various languages. You will be working on assignments from external clients.
- Year 3 – Do a five-month internship, in the Netherlands or abroad or set up your own business Follow-up your internship with modules such as Design Patterns, IT architecture, IT change management and Threading in C#.
- Year 4 - Spend the first half year specialising with a minor subject and then finish your studies with a graduation project in a professional environment.
Admissions
Program Tuition Fee
Scholarships and Funding
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.
Rankings
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).
Facilities
Why study at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences
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