Applying for a Master’s degree programme with a Dutch certificate

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A Admission requirements with a Dutch university Bachelor’s degree

B Admission requirements with a degree from a university of applied sciences

Academic year 2022-2023

The Bachelor’s-before-Master’s rule (‘harde knip’ in Dutch) is the legal provision that states that a student must first complete their bachelor’s or pre-master’s programme before they can move on to a master’s programme. In order to limit possible study delays and related adverse consequences due to COVID-19, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has allowed universities to put temporary measures in place for another year for the transition from a bachelor’s to a master’s programme. 

It is stipulated that students can use this temporary measure for Bachelor’s-before-Master’s rule only once and for a maximum duration of 1 year. It is therefore not possible to accumulate and then use two of these temporary measures. 

The Executive Board has decided that for the 2022-2023 academic year, the following starting points for the transition to a master's programme apply to bachelor's and pre master students who were enrolled at TU Delft or another Dutch BSc programme in the 2021-2022 academic year: 

Validity of obtained results during the period of a soft-cut enrolment

The results obtained for master's courses are included in the examination programme of the relevant master's programme as soon as the student has passed the BSc examination and has a valid - and regular - enrolment for the master's programme. 

Registration of TU Delft students 

Students who wish to use the temporary measures for the bachelor’s-master’s transition should re-enrol via Studylink for their current bachelor's or pre-master’s programme. They should also submit an enrolment request for the desired master's programme. Studylink will then ask whether the student would like to be considered for conditional admission to the master's programme. On the basis of this request, the conditional admission will be assessed by the dean of the faculty to which the master's programme in question belongs. Enrolment in this programme will be provisional until the bachelor's programme or the pre-master’s programme has been completed or will be automatically terminated if the bachelor's programme or the pre-master’s programme has not been completed by 31 August 2023 at the latest.  

 

 

Information per faculty

3ME
A+BE
CEG
EEMCS
IDE
AE
TPM
AS

A. Admission requirements with a Dutch university bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree from a previous education that matches the master's program usually gives direct access to TU Delft. If the master’s degree is not a complete match with your previous qualification, you can take extra modules to bring your knowledge to the required level. This is called a bridging programme. The curriculum of your bridging programme differs per master programme. You determine this with the bridging coordinator of the relevant study programme. 

What are the conditions?

The following conditions apply to gain access to the bridging program:

  1. Your bachelor's degree does not match the desired master's degree. Please consult the doorstroommatrix. If there is no information available regarding a match between your bachelor's degree and the desired master's degree, please contact the bridging coordinator.
  2. You meet the entrance requirements for mathematics and English (vwo level).
  3. For Dutch-language bridging programs (here the language of instruction of the bachelor is taken as the starting point) a language requirement applies, if an international previous education was completed prior to the Dutch university bachelor's degree. Please click here to see the requirements.
  4. You have met the additional conditions set by the faculty of the master programme.

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If you have a bachelor's degree from another program within TU Delft, TU Eindhoven, University of Twente or Wageningen University & Research, the selection committee of the master's program at TU Delft will determine whether direct admission is possible.

B. Admission requirements with an hbo diploma

An hbo diploma usually does not grant direct access to a TU Delft master's programme. In order to start a master's programme, you must first take extra modules to bring your knowledge to the required level. This is called a bridging programme. The curriculum of your bridging programme differs per master programme. You determine this with the bridging coordinator of the relevant study programme. 

What are the conditions?

The following conditions apply to gain access to the bridging program:

  1. You have obtained your hbo diploma.
  2. Your bachelor's degree matches the desired master's degree. Please consult the doorstroommatrix. If there is no information available regarding a match between your bachelor's degree and the desired master's degree, please contact the bridging coordinator.
  3. You meet the entrance requirements for mathematics and English (vwo level) 2;
  4. For Dutch-language bridging programs (here the language of instruction of the bachelor is taken as the starting point) a language requirement applies, if an international previous education was followed prior to the Dutch hbo bachelor's degree. Please click here to see the requirements.
  5. You meet the additional conditions set by the faculty of the relevant master programme.

At the bottom of this page you can find the 'Additional Conditions'

[2] An exception applies to the Science Education track within the MSc SEC.

Mathematics B or T

This entrance requirement must have been met by passing an entrance test by 1 September 2022 in order to be enrolled as of 1 September of that same year or by 1 December 2022 in order to be enrolled as of 1 February 2023 (this applies to Architecture and the Built Environment and Industrial Design Engineering only). For Mathematics, the entrance requirement is a certificate for the preliminary examination in Mathematics B or T. You can take this exam at:

English

This entrance requirement must have been met by passing an entrance test by 1 September 2022 in order to be enrolled as of 1 September of that same year or by 1 December 2022 in order to be enrolled as of 1 February 2023 (this applies to Architecture and the Built Environment and Industrial Design Engineering only). For English, the entrance requirement is a certificate from one of the following examination organisations:

For the intake of February 2022 and September 2022 TU Delft will also accept the TOEFL iBT Special Home Edition with a score of at least 90.
The IELTS Indicator test however cannot be accepted as it does not compare to the IELTS Academic test.

Exemptions

If you meet one of the criteria below, the admission requirement for English and/or Mathematics does not apply to you. You do not need to apply for exemption separately; this will be checked based on the documents you submit.

Exemption from English

  • Pre-university (vwo) certificate;

  • Bachelor’s degree from a hbo-programme which is taught in English;

  • Students with a nationality of one of these countries: USA, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand or Canada.

Exemption from Mathematics B or T

  • Pre-university (vwo) certificate with Mathematics B.

Contact
If you have any questions about the entrance tests or admission requirements, please send an e-mail to contactcentre-esa@tudelft.nl.

Supplementary conditions

Some faculties at TU Delft set supplementary conditions for students wishing to enter their MSc programmes. Find out below whether the MSc programme of your choice has set supplementary conditions.

If your programme is not included in the list, first check whether the programme you are looking for is not actually a track or specialisation in one of the MSc programmes listed. If it is, you should contact the coordinator of your MSc programme.

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