{"id":841,"date":"2017-01-26T15:37:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T14:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/?p=65244\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:05","slug":"een-op-drie-masteropleidingen-selecteert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2017\/01\/26\/een-op-drie-masteropleidingen-selecteert\/","title":{"rendered":"One in three master programmes hand-picks students"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"

Students at Erasmus University Rotterdam. <\/span><\/p>

\n\t\n\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n\tImage by:<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRonald van den Heerik<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Students who have finished their bachelor programmes can\u2019t just start doing any master programme they like the look of. One out of every five Dutch master programmes selects its students on the basis of motivation, say, or exam marks. And this is one out of every three if you count all the two-year research master programmes \u2013 and even a bit more at EUR.<\/p>\n

Big differences<\/h3>

The Education Inspectorate says there are big differences between the universities. Only a small number of the master programmes at Tilburg, Groningen, Nijmegen and Leiden make a point of carefully choosing their students, but at Utrecht there are hardly any master programmes at all that admit students without screening them pretty closely first.<\/p>\n

The four universities of technology don\u2019t screen candidates at all, but they do set admission requirements. For instance, you can\u2019t go and do a master programme in applied physics if you\u2019ve got a bachelor degree in philosophy.<\/p>\n