HAN University of Applied Sciences offers higher education of an outstanding quality within an inspiring, innovative, international environment. We strive to prepare our students to meet today’s challenges of globalisation by combining unrivalled quality practical education with carefully specialised coaching delivered by skilled professionals. This is our vision and our mission.
What HAN has to offer
Review committees have recently ranked the courses offered at HAN University of Applied Sciences in the top 10 of all Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences. From our campuses in Arnhem and Nijmegen, we provide 64 Bachelors courses and 21 Masters courses to approximately 29,700 students. We currently boast 2,100 international student enrolments from over 70 different countries!
HAN's broad range of courses can be taken either full time, part time, online, separately, or in combination. Our commercial centres of expertise and research groups deliver custom research, advice and post-graduate courses for companies and institutions. With clear and rigorous contract management, we strive to deliver result-oriented work based on a large degree of freedom within an agreed framework.
Core competences
Upon graduation you will possess the ability to think and act from an international perspective. Your education will fully equip you to work in a given professional field in an international setting. These are the core competences we strive to develop in students obtaining their qualifications at HAN University of Applied Sciences.
We also offer a wide and exciting range of possibilities for foreign work placements or for study periods abroad. If, on the other hand, remaining closer to home is more your style, your studies at HAN will surround you with people of many different cultural backgrounds and nationalities. In this way, you will be immersed in an international environment throughout your study.
| No. of students: | 29.000* |
| Funding type: | Public |
ou will find everything you need at HAN's campuses in Arnhem and Nijmegen: extensive multimedia and study centres, good ICT facilities, canteens, and places to relax with your fellow students. Both campuses are also within easy distance of train stations and sports facilities.
In our 5 Multimedia and Study Centres you can consult written and digital sources in a quiet and peaceful setting. Your HAN account gives you access to a variety of ICT facilities, including wireless Internet. If you want to play sport during your study, you are welcome at the various student sport clubs in Arnhem and Nijmegen. HAN’s facilities will provide you with a rich study environment!
More than just libraries...
The HAN Multimedia and Study Centres are facilities to be proud of. Here you find a great collection of books, journals, graduation papers, DVDs, and much more. You can easily search through the library catalogue and numerous databases in every field of interest.
The HAN has five Multimedia and Study Centres - two in Arnhem and three in Nijmegen. In these centres you can consult both paper and online sources, or take your time and work on an assignment or presentation.
The HAN Multimedia and Study Centres are much more than just libraries. Of course you can search through books, journals, reference books and graduation papers. But you also have access to digital information sources and streaming video. You can edit movies using a virtual cutting machine which you can then place in a webpage or presentation to give your product just that little bit extra.
You can also access extensive information on how to cite your sources properly to avoid plagiarism. And of course, our expert staff members are always happy to help with your search queries. Finally, RSS keeps you up to date on the latest news.
Once you have decided to study at HAN University of Applied Sciences, you will probably want to gather as much information as you can about the area and about the Netherlands in general. This way you will have some idea of what it will be like to live here as a student. The Netherlands, also known as Holland, may be small in size, but its economy and culture definitely are not!
A modern economy
In addition to having a modern economy with a high quality services sector, the Dutch are internationally recognised leaders in water management. The eastern part of the country, where HAN University of Applied Sciences is situated, is an attractive place for multinational companies because of its location between the major port of Rotterdam and the German industrial area.
Science and the arts
The Netherlands is also successful in science and the arts. Illustrious painters from the past, such as Rembrandt and Van Gogh, have made Dutch painting famous. Today Rem Koolhaas is known around the world for his architectural designs. Among our Nobel Prize winners are the well-known brothers Jan and Nicolaas Tinbergen, who contributed to the sciences of economics and biology.
Fun facts about the Netherlands
Did you know that...
* "The Netherlands" and "Holland" are used to describe the same country?
* One quarter of the Netherlands is below sea level?
* The International Court of Justice is at the Peace Palace in The Hague?
* The Netherlands has approximately 480 inhabitants per square kilometre?
* With only 0.008% of the world's area, the Netherlands is the world's third largest agricultural exporter?
* The Netherlands was one of the European Union's founding nations?
* The Netherlands has at least 15,000 km of bicycle paths?
* Dutch is also spoken in Belgium, northern France, Suriname, the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba?
* The Netherlands still has about 1,000 traditional working windmills?
* The Dutch are the tallest people in Europe?
* Amsterdam is entirely built on piles?
* The Netherlands always has a coalition government, which makes it a country of compromises?
* The Netherlands has nearly 1,000 museums, with 42 in Amsterdam alone?
* Almost every Dutch person has a bicycle and there are twice as many bikes as cars?
* The Netherlands is the world's eighth largest exporter?
* People in Holland eat raw herring with onions on top?
* About 30% of all Dutch babies are born at home?
* You can see 22 paintings by Rembrandt and 206 by Van Gogh in Amsterdam?
* The Netherlands has the highest number of part-time workers in the EU (four in ten people)?
* The Netherlands' highest point is 323 metres high and is therefore called a " mountain"?
* You'll find a bunch of flowers in almost every Dutch living room?
* Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands, but The Hague is the seat of government?
* Most Dutch people speak at least one foreign language?
* One in every three Dutch people belongs to a sport club?
* After Scandinavians, the Dutch are the world's biggest coffee drinkers?
* People of 200 nationalities live in Amsterdam?
* The Netherlands has one of the youngest populations in the EU?
* When your plane arrives at Schiphol, it lands 4.5 metres below sea level?
* The Netherlands has the highest cable density in Europe?
* Amsterdam has 1,281 bridges?
* When Dutch school children pass their exams, they hang a Dutch flag and a school bag outside their homes?