Engineering

In your first year, you get a broad introduction to engineering. You explore the four study tracks available later in the programme:

• Product Engineering
• Commercial Engineering
• Mechatronic Engineering
• Energy Transition Engineering

You build your skills through projects, courses, and workshops.

In your second year, you work on projects for real companies. Within each project, you choose a role that aligns with one of the four study tracks.

You develop professional skills and create industry-standard deliverables such as designs for products, installations, and machines. Workshops give you the specific knowledge and skills needed to complete your projects successfully. You also follow a number of in-depth courses to further strengthen your technical foundation as an engineer.

Minor

In the third year of the programme, you choose your minor (a one-semester programme). A minor will enable you to deepen or broaden your knowledge and skills. You can do this at the HZ or at another university of applied sciences at home or abroad.

Internship

During the other semester, you will do an internship where you gain work experience. You can choose whether you stay in the Netherlands or go abroad.

Study tracks and graduation research project

In your final year, you choose one of four study tracks. In the first semester, you follow courses and work on projects within your chosen study track.

In the second semester, you complete your graduation project at a company. You research and design technical improvements and innovations in a real professional setting, either in the Netherlands or abroad.

This is where your knowledge and skills from the entire Engineering programme at HZ come together. On completing the programme, you are ready to work as a professional engineer.

HZ Honours Programme

Want an extra challenge alongside your degree? The HZ Honours Programme is an optional programme running alongside your bachelor's that gives you the freedom to tackle a real-world social issue, one you choose yourself. Working with students from different study programmes, you can address national or international challenges, from sustainable production to community development.

Previous Honours students have travelled to destinations including Costa Rica, Zanzibar, Rio de Janeiro, Bali and the Philippines to work on impactful international projects. As an ICT student, you could contribute by building digital platforms, analysing data, developing apps, creating AI solutions or improving smart systems that help organisations and communities solve complex problems.

After completing the programme, you receive an additional Honours certificate alongside your Bachelor of Science degree.

To be admitted to Engineering programme you need:

• A qualification equivalent to a Dutch secondary education diploma, which gives you access to higher education.
• High school graduated in mathematics as part of secondary education diploma. No mathematics? After following this online course you are still able to be admitted to the study programme.
• A good command of written and spoken English. Your level of English should be equivalent to an IELTS score of 6.0.

Read more about the admission and language requirements.

To be admitted to this programme, you need a diploma equivalent to a Dutch secondary education diploma (HAVO, VWO, or MBO level 4).

If your diploma is listed on the recognised foreign diplomas list , you are admissible provided you meet the additional requirements. If your diploma is not listed, you are still welcome to apply, we will assess your qualification individually. To ensure a fair evaluation, we work with Nuffic, the Dutch organisation responsible for assessing international diplomas.

If you do not have the required secondary school diploma and are 21 years or older, you may still be eligible for admission. HZ offers the possibility to take an alternative entrance exam.