Self-Composed Minor

Minors

During the first semester of the third year of your bachelor programme you will do a minor programme. A minor is a cohesive combination of courses of 30 EC.

  • TU minorsite, here you can also find EEMCS minors.
  • Do you want to compose a self-composed minor? Then read on.

Self-composed minor

Students of the EEMCS faculty can compose a self-composed minor that will be incorporated into the study programme after approval by the Board of Examiners of their study programme.

A self-composed minor consists of a cohesive combination of courses that may be followed at the Delft University of Technology, another Dutch university or at a foreign university. The combination of courses of the self-composed minor must, as a first step, be submitted for coherence and level verification to:

  • Prof.dr. P.J. (Paddy) French (for students Electrical Engineering)
  • The bachelor coordinator, dr. B. (Bart) van den Dries (for students Applied Mathematics)
  • Dr. S. (Sebastian) Proksch (minor-coordinator-cs-ewi@tudelft.nl for students Computer Science & Engineering)

As a final step, the self-composed minor needs the approval of the subcommittee of the Board of Examiners of the respective study programme.

The application form can be found on this page.


Individual self-composed minors should meet the following conditions:

  • The proposed courses should comprise at least 30 EC.
  • The proposed courses should form a coherent whole and should not have overlap with the major programme.
  • The proposed courses should be offered by a university.
  • The minor, as a whole, should reach third year BSc level.
  • Courses can only be part of a self-composed minor if these have been taken during the time of registry for the current study programme.
  • No MSc level courses are allowed to be part of the self-composedminor. An exception, to be decided by the Board of Examiners, can be made for minors composed of courses offered abroad, but only in case of an insufficient offer of English language BSc courses.
  • A request for an self-composed minor containing courses from an existing thematic minor may be denied by the Board of Examiners. Participation in thematic minors is only possible via the regular, central application procedure.
  • Students of the Computer Science & Engineering programme are not permitted to do an internship as part of the self-composed minor.
  • Students of the Computer Science & Engineering programme are not permitted to perform a freely composed minor, with the exception of: the minor abroad, a thematic minor at a Dutch university outside the LDE context, a minor consisting of a thematic minor of 15 EC with additional subjects, and the switching minor.
  • Students from outside the Computer Science & Engineering programme are not permitted to include Computer Science & Engineering subjects (including subjects from the Computer Science thematic minor) in their self-composed minor. Students may, however, take the full Computer Science thematic minor (see above).