Wittenborg Students

While many Dutch universities are increasingly struggling to house incoming international students, no such problems exist at Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences, having recently added even more accommodation to its growing housing portfolio.

Packing up and moving to another country to study can be challenging for some students. There are so many lingering questions and uncertainties that influence the decision-making process when deciding on the best choice of institution or city. This is why Study in Holland, a platform designed to promote the Netherlands as an attractive study destination for prospective international students, has assigned "ambassadors", such as Wittenborg student Romeissa Laib, to promote studying in the Netherlands.

IBA (Top-up) Marketing & Communication student, Tulya Kavaklioglu, explains why studying at Wittenborg prepares her for a strategic approach in the field of marketing at her current internship at GenomeScan – a top Technical Center for Life Sciences in the Netherlands.

Four international students from Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences just spent the week in Georgia, courtesy of the European Commission's Erasmus + programme where they learned about sustainable practices and what cultural exchange really means.

Wittenborg aims to improve teaching quality by reducing class sizes after the summer holiday in September as student intakes grow.

The 5-star Hotel de Echoput in Apeldoorn has ambitions to grow internationally, and to this end has started to offer internships to international students from Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences.

A cup of tea is nice, but, let's face it, customers do not want to pay the same for tea as for high-quality, brewed coffee. Wittenborg student Nirusika Ratnasingam did research on developing a new model for customer engagement in the tea sector.

Finding a top company to intern at can be challenging and competitive! However, Wittenborg student Arya Khosravivad has challenged the competition and landed an impressive internship at Merck, a leading pharmaceutical company with one of its branches in Amsterdam.

The 2018 National Student Survey results show that student satisfaction levels at Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences, and the Netherlands in general, remain high.

Six lucky students from Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences will fly to Georgia in July for a youth exchange programme made possible by Wittenborg Alumnus Serge Gwabene's social enterprise.