{"id":163893,"date":"2024-02-06T11:57:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T10:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=163893"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:09","slug":"of-all-students-in-higher-education-17-not-40-percent-are-non-dutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/02\/06\/of-all-students-in-higher-education-17-not-40-percent-are-non-dutch\/","title":{"rendered":"Of all students in higher education, 17 not 40 percent are non-Dutch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not 40 percent but 17 percent of higher education students in the Netherlands come from abroad. Figures just presented by the Rathenau Institute clear up the confusion on this issue. They also reveal that international students often take a degree that gives them less chance of employment.<\/p>\n

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The idea<\/a> that 40 percent of all students in the Netherlands come from abroad has been circulating for some time. Politicians picked up on this figure when it appeared in a press release<\/a> published some time ago by Statistics Netherlands (CBS). Prime Minister Mark Rutte described it as very high<\/a> and in January, the same percentage was quoted<\/a> in a debate in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

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However, the percentage published by CBS only referred to first-year students<\/em> taking a research<\/em> university<\/em> Bachelor\u2019s or Master\u2019s degree and not the student population as a whole. It is only in this group that international students account for 40 percent.<\/p>\n\n\t

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