{"id":183093,"date":"2025-10-30T13:47:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=183093"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:57","slug":"hboers-presteren-opvallend-goed-in-universitaire-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2025\/10\/30\/hboers-presteren-opvallend-goed-in-universitaire-master\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO graduates perform remarkably well in university master’s programmes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Contrary to popular belief, HBO graduates perform well in university master’s programmes. They rarely drop out and tend to graduate quickly, according to figures from student finance agency DUO.<\/p>

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HBO are the Dutch universities of applied sciences, as opposed to research universities such as Erasmus University, which are basically one level up. Every year, around five to six thousand students with an HBO bachelor\u2019s degree start a university master\u2019s programme, sometimes after completing a pre-master\u2019s. One in ten university master\u2019s students comes from a university of applied sciences.<\/p>\n

Figures on academic success in master\u2019s programmes are difficult to come by. The universities association UNL does not publish them on its website. DUO has now shared some data in a trend report.<\/p>\n

This shows that students from HBO backgrounds perform quite well. Within a maximum delay of one year, about 83 percent obtain their master\u2019s degree. Students entering with a university bachelor\u2019s degree are slightly slower \u2013 77 percent graduate within the same time frame.<\/p>\n

After a delay of three years, the graduation rate rises to over 90 percent in both groups. Drop-out rates are also similar, at around 4 percent. Students coming from universities are slightly more likely to switch master\u2019s programmes. HBO graduates rarely do so.<\/p>\n\n\t

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