Health Sciences

The goal of the Dutch government is to improve the quality, accessibility, and feasibility of healthcare. The expectation is that technology can make an important contribution to these goals. During the Dutch-taught bachelor’s programme in Health Sciences, you will learn to assess the added value of a technology from the point of view of the patient, healthcare provider, and insurer. Questions you will be working on are: How can an app help reduce the number of doctor visits for a diabetic? How do we know whether a new treatment method is better than the old one? How can we use big data to improve the organisation of a hospital?

WHY HEALTH SCIENCES?

During the Health Sciences programme, you will gain insight into the quality of care for individual patients, the (re)design of organisational processes, the effects of policy on national care, and the role that technology can play in improving care. You will also become familiar with the concepts of health and disease, healthcare economics, and healthcare research.

ENJOY A PERSONALISED APPROACH

Much of your training will take place at our Technical Medical Centre, a leading international research and innovation centre where various parties (research, clinic and industry) bring their knowledge together to devise, develop and test healthcare improvements and innovations. These innovations will be discussed in education right away. Within a small-scale and informal educational sphere, we help you grow both professionally and personally. You will learn to manage projects, cooperate, communicate, present, reflect, and give and receive feedback.

AFTER YOUR BACHELOR’S

With this degree you can immediately join the job market, or you can further specialise by doing a master’s. You will be directly admissible to our English-taught Master’s in Health Sciences, in which you will gain in-depth expertise in e-health, management or policy. After your bachelor’s or master’s, you will have good job opportunities at hospitals, insurance providers, home-care institutions, consultancy firms, medical companies and with the government, among others.

POPULAR MASTER’S

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

» CERTIFICATE EQUIVALENT TO DUTCH VWO (E.G.

BRITISH A-LEVELS, INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE) » DUTCH (STAATSEXAMEN NT2-LL, CEFR LEVEL B2-C1)

DUTCH-TAUGHT

EVITA BARTELS

YOU LEARN TO OPTIMISE HEALTHCARE, MAKING IT MORE EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE.