International Development Management (BSc)
Van Hall Larenstein, University of Applied Sciences
Key Information
Campus location
Velp, Netherlands
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
4 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
EUR 9,345 / per year *
Application deadline
Request info
Earliest start date
Request info
* non- EU I EU € 2,530 a year
Introduction
Are you contributing to change?
Are you ready to make a true impact? Are you committed to real climate change, equality, and fair trade? In this study program, you turn your commitment into action.
You will develop into a specialist in sustainable transitions. You understand what interests various stakeholders defend, and ensure international cooperation, and make sustainability your guiding principle.
Finding the balance between people, planet and prosperity is critical in this study program. We believe that through fair trade, equal rights, and equal opportunities, a healthy balance between people, the planet, and prosperity can be achieved, not from behind a desk, but in hands-on practice and through direct contact. Determine your own educational content by choosing elements from 5 themes. Would you like to specialize in climate change and food security or disaster and conflict reduction? Or would you like to work engage in social inclusion and contribute to resilient communities? Either way, you will learn to bring people from different cultural and social environments together, defend interests, and facilitate innovation.
‘Only together we can make a change’
With your knowledge, you can work worldwide: from nature reserves in Uganda and coffee plantations in Peru to the climate lobby in Brussels. You can work for a range of parties, both commercial and non-commercial. For example, you might become an emergency relief coordinator at the Red Cross, set up your own sustainable business, work as an advisor on climate change and sustainable production, advocate for human rights or become a food security specialist at the FAO.
This program is an exciting hub where students with myriad ideas and backgrounds work together towards one common goal: a just society and a healthy earth. We are waiting for you!
Gallery
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check our website for more information.
Curriculum
Study programme: International Development Management
In International Development Management, you will learn how to successfully work for a more just planet. The program offers in-depth knowledge of global issues that affect people's lives and the planet. In the first period of year 1, you initially focus on the field of international cooperation in general. Then you will delve deeper into specific themes together with lecturers with extensive experience in the field.
These 5 themes play a major role:
- Environmental Justice
- Disaster & Conflict Reduction
- Social Inclusion & Diversity
- Healthy Diets and Resilient Communities
- Just and Sustainable Value Chains
You will gain a lot of experience and knowledge about these themes. Furthermore, you will not only develop research and team skills but also find out how organizations function in general. You will also learn to set up projects and find innovative solutions. You round off the first year with a trip to an Eastern European country with your fellow students. Here, you will put your acquired knowledge into practice
Your professional orientation
In your second year, you do an internship where you expand your knowledge and learn how to apply your skills in practice. You do not choose a specialization in this program but rather compile part of your own study program based on the 5 themes. A number of electives will be addressed and, in generic courses, you can often choose an assignment focusing on 1 of the themes. In your third year, you will complete a second internship where you can put your skills and knowledge into practice, followed by a minor in which you further broaden and deepen your knowledge. You round out the program by doing a graduation project for a company or organization.
Term 1
- Introduction and History International Collaboration
- Internship (abroad)
- Transdisciplinary course about Multi-stakeholder processes
- Minor at another University / University of Applied Sciences
Term 2
- Climate Change, Nature and Sustainable Production & Consumption
- Lobby, Advocacy & Applied Research
Term 3
- Inequality and Inclusiveness
- Thematic Deepening | For example Disasters & Conflicts
- Internship abroad
- Graduating
Term 4
- Food and Water Security
- Assignment from the professional field
Program Outcome
- Degree: Bachelor
- When you successfully graduate from International Development Management you will have obtained a Bachelor of Science degree (BSc).
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
After graduation, you can work close to home or anywhere else in the world. You will often work with people from many different cultural backgrounds and in diverse teams. Many of our students find their first job through their internship or with other organizations they come in contact with during their studies. You can start work at a government agency or NGO, or company, or set up your own organisation. We will help you build your own network of organizations where you can get work in the future!
Here are a few examples of jobs our graduates work in:
Environmental Justice
- Climate adaptation quartermaster at a Dutch municipality
- Campaigner for youth activism at Oxfam Novib
- Lobbyist for green change
Disaster & Conflict Reduction
- Program manager for Because we Carry on the Greek island of Lesbos
- Emergency Relief Coordinator at the Dutch Red Cross
- Project Manager at MedAir in Afghanistan
- Junior Expert Humanitarian Aid at Welthungerhilfe in Germany
Social Inclusion & Diversity
- Advisor Inclusive Development
- Programme Supervisor at the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers
- Junior Expert Mental Health and Psychosocial Support at Cordaid
- Project Manager Gender Equality
Healthy Diets and Resilient Communities
- Food System Resilience Advisor at FAO in the Horn of Africa
- Freelance consultant focused on food security
- Project manager Rural Development
Just and Sustainable Value Chains
- Developer of a support program for cocoa farmers for Tony Chocolonely
- Sales and Business Development at a plastic recycling company
- Climate Change and Sustainable Production advisor
- Fair Trade initiator
- Programme Director at the Impact Facility in Kenya