Bachelor in Leisure and Events Management
Leeuwarden, 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 Leisure and Events Management program from NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences?
- Work on projects from the Leisure & Events sector, providing solutions to real-world issues in learning labs in the community
- Learn to naturally integrate sustainability to develop meaningful experiences
- Specialise with a minor subject in one of the subsectors of the leisure industry; event management, sport management, placemaking, or arts and culture
- Gain practical experience with an eight-month internship
- Earn additional industry certification while you study
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.
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Career Opportunities
Your future
This is your ticket to a career in management, policymaking or consultancy so as to create meaningful experiences in leisure & events.
Career opportunities
- Event Manager or Media Manager for a sports company
- Booking Manager/Entertainment
- Manager at a major music venue
- Marketing and Communications
- Manager at a theme park
- Museum Project Manager
- Government Policy Officer focusing on placemaking
- Entrepreneur with your own business
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 – Develop essential knowledge of leisure theories, trends, and developments in the sector, get acquainted with leisure & events companies and go on field trips.
- Year 2 – Examining the leisure industry from a tactical management perspective, you organise an event or project for a client, and explore project management, imagineering, concept development and research. You also do an internship for one day per week at a leisure company.
- Year 3 – Work on your strategic management skills carrying out research in your preferred future field. Develop your vision of the field and work on placemaking and event policy before choosing your specialisation (events management, sports management, or arts & culture). You also take a minor elective subject and can spend this time studying abroad.
- Year 4 - Complete your degree with an 8-month internship anywhere in the world.
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