History of Wittenborg

Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences (HBO in Dutch) was founded in 1987  by Dutch entrepreneur Williem H Nijkamp. The school quickly grew into an expertise centre for Banking and Insurance and Real Estate Management, providing these industries in the Netherlands with hundreds of graduates.

In 2002 partnered with BTC, an international consultancy specialised in corporate training programmes (part of Birdsalls Limited). Wittenborg started developing its international English language business programmes, gaining state accreditation from the European recognised NVAO in 2006.

Since 2006, Wittenborg has emerged as a business school focussed on entrepreneurship and SME management, within an international context. Its business administration programmes are offered in both English and Dutch. In 2006, Wittenborg also began offering its programmes as part of a double degree programme at its partner institute in Rostov on Don, Russia.

Since 2008, the Wittenborg is owned by the Netherlands based partners of Birdsalls Limited, and its directors are Maggie Feng (MSc) and Peter Birdsall (MA Ed.)

Birdsalls is a family organisation with its roots in Switzerland, United Kingdom and China and manages its projects from its bases in Austria and the Netherlands.

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