Requirements

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

Select the country you are interested in and open the pdf file. In the 'evaluation chart' you will find an overview of the most common diplomas and a comparison of their level with the Dutch education system. This will give you an idea of your chances of admission.

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 whether your diploma corresponds to the full level described, so this file from Nuffic can only be used as a guideline; our student registration will determine the final admission.

To demonstrate that you meet the English language requirement, you will be asked to upload one of the English language certificates below. For our Bachelor's and Master's programmes, the minimum required scores are as follows:

• 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 note that we do not accept language test certificates that are more than 2 years old at the time you wish to start your studies.

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

• You are exempt from submitting one of the above certificates ifYour diploma is on the Nuffic's diploma list, and the subject English appears on your final transcript of grades.
• The medium of instruction of your completed Bachelor's or Master's degree was English (this requires the submission of a copy of your Bachelor's or Master's degree). Please provide us with an official signed and stamped statement from your university confirming that the medium of instruction for the entire course was English.
• This also applies to American high school curricula taught in English and accredited by an American regional accrediting organisation, the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme and GCE AS/A level certificates issued by AQA, Pearson, Edexcel, OCR, or Cambridge.
• In some cases, an exemption may be possible if the qualification was obtained in a country where English is the main language of communication. Please contact studentregistration@saxion.nl to check if you qualify.

IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC and Cambridge English grades & scale