Requirements

The student must be admissible to Higher Education through a diploma with good results at least equivalent to the Dutch HAVO, VWO or MBO-4 for our bachelor programmes and four years University of Applied Sciences for our master programmes. Does your diploma match with these requirements? Check here what the Nuffic has to say about the diploma you’ve obtained.

Select the relevant country and open the pdf file. At the ‘evaluation chart’ you’ll find an overview of the most common diplomas and their comparison in level to the Dutch educational system. This will give you a clue about your admission possibilities.

The other chapters of the pdf file contain more information about the curriculum of the specific education. Sometimes it depends on the curriculum of your previous studies if your diploma will meet the full described level, so this file from the Nuffic must only be used as a guideline; our student registration will determine the final admission.

The students’ qualifications will be assessed by the Admission Officer of the specific course on the basis of the provided diplomas, curriculum vitae, letter of motivation, course description issued by the university and, if necessary, an intake interview.

As proof that you meet the English language requirement, you will be asked to upload one of the English language certificates below. The minimum required scores are applicable to our bachelor- and master study programmes.

• IELTS (academic) with a minimum overall score of 6.0. We do not accept the Academic IELTS Online certificate.
• TOEFL Internet Based (minimum score of 80) and TOEFL Paper Based (minimum score 550). Please note that we do not accept the MyBest scores of the TOEFL test as well as the TOEFL iBT Home Edition certificate.
  Make sure you add Saxion as a score recipient by using our institutional code 7533.
• Cambridge language assessment with a minimum score of 169 – First, Advanced, Proficiency.
• TOEIC certificate, both listening and reading (minimum score 670) and speaking and writing (minimum score 290).

Please be aware that we do not accept language test certificates that are older than 2 years at the desired start date of the study programme.

Exemptions
You are exempted from submitting one of the above test certificates if:

• Your diploma is on Nuffic's diploma list and the subject English is on your final transcript of grades.
• The medium of instruction of your completed bachelor or master studies was English (this requires submitting a copy of your bachelor or master diploma). Please provide us with an official signed and stamped statement from your university in which they confirm that the medium of instruction of the entire curriculum was English.
  This also applies to the English taught American High School curriculum that is accredited by an American regional accreditation organization, the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme and GCE AS/A level certificates issued by AQA, Pearson, Edexcel, OCR or Cambridge.
• In some cases exemption is possible if the diploma is obtained in a country where English is the main language of communication. Please inquire via studentregistration@saxion.nl whether you qualify.

IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC and Cambridge English grades & scale

Part of the entry requirements is a study choice check / intake that consists of:

• an online assessment
• a welcome interview, in which the outcomes of the online assessment and your motivation and expectations regarding the IHRM program will be discussed.

Before starting your bachelor International Human Resource Management programme, you are invited to participate in a Study Choice Check. Saxion refers to the study choice check as a compulsory intake for all applicants.

Why a consultation?

It is important to choose the degree programme which suits you best. The Study Choice Check is to examine the extent to which there is a match between you and the International Human Resource Management degree programme.

Preparation

On your personal e-mail address you will receive an invitation to complete an online assessment in your own time. In this assessment you will find questions on various matters, for instance about your motivation. Also your lingual and analytical skills will be covered in the assessment. The results of the assessment will be used to provide you with a personal advice.

After you have completed the online assessment, you will be required to arrange an appointment for a welcome interview in which the outcomes of the online assessment and your motivation and expectations regarding the IHRM program will be discussed.

Personal advice

At the end of the interview you will be given personal advice, which will take one of three forms:

• A: There appears to be a good match.                                                  
• B: There appears to be a sufficient match, but support and extra guidance is required.
• C: There appears to be an insufficient match, we advise you to reconsider your application for this particular programme.

Please be aware that completing the Study Choice Check is compulsory (it is part of our admission requirements), but the type of advice (A, B or C) you receive has no influence on your admission. You will not be admitted to any degree programme without a complete study choice check. In addition you must meet with the admission requirements and further admission conditions before you may participate in a Saxion degree programme.

If you have any questions about the study choice check, please contact mister Frank Alberink via intake.ama@saxion.nl.

Planning to enrol in a degree programme at Saxion in September 2023? If so, you will receive an invitation after 1 March to an online Meet & Greet for your degree programme. During this informal online event you will get to know our university, current students and lecturers. In addition, you will have the opportunity to get to know future fellow students via our digital platforms, such as intosaxion.nl. To complete the picture, you are also invited to check out our video clips about the teaching and the facilities at Saxion.

Meet & Greet: the perfect time to ask questions and to ascertain whether there is a match between you and the degree programme. If you still don't know which programme to choose after the online Meet & Greet, you may request an individual online interview (study choice check).