New Academic Year

Welcome to all our students from around the world, whether you are studying in the Netherlands, in Germany, or in Austria, or in one of the many other countries where you may be at this time. Whichever programme you are studying, the Bachelor of Business Administration, the Master of Business Administration, or the Master of Science MBM programme, we hope you will get the very most out of your studies.

We are starting this academic year, in 2020, after having experienced a period of disruption, angst, and lockdown across the world caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. By now it is clear that we will be living with the effects of the coronavirus for some time to come and there is no magic solution.  What is important is that we do not let this life-changing event stop us from developing, from learning, from improving our livelihoods, and from keeping moving on forwards.

A detailed plan mapping out the steps Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences will take in the next few months, as it prepares to start class-based teaching in the new academic year, has been presented by the Executive Board. It contains several COVID-19 prevention measures to ensure the continued safety of both students and staff, which include not having more students than possible in one class and running classes from morning to evening in the future.

On Monday, 2 September, the new academic year will officially start for students at Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences when classes commence, but this week will already see new students arriving in droves from all over the world, while current students have started collecting their text books.

A new slogan was unveiled for Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences this week at the first general staff meeting of the new academic year, along with details of the institution's short- and mid-term goals.