Admission requirements

Admission requirements

• You require a bachelor’s degree in the field of Education to be admitted to the master’s course. If you work in education and you have obtained a bachelor's degree in a different field, you can still apply and you can gain access to the programme on the basis of a positive outcome of the admission interview.
• You work in education or a related workplace. Since an innovation in the student’s own environment is an important part of the programme, students need to guarantee the support of their institution to attend the course and the potential to carry out an innovation in their class, department and/or institution.
• All students must prove that they possess good writing and conversation skills in English. If you are a foreign student and English is not an official language in your country, you must provide a result from an internationally recognized test of English/certificate (more information: see below ‘English language requirements’).
• A positive result follows the admission interview (more information: see below ‘Application procedure’).

For students not meeting the admission requirements, it is currently not possible to take a pre-master’s or catch-up course. A basic principle is that students must follow all the modules and exemptions are only possible for complete modules by evidence of competences obtained elsewhere.

English language requirements

All students must prove in the admission interview that they possess good writing and conversation skills in English. 

If English is not your first language, you will need to provide proof of your English proficiency. Test results should be no more than two years old and the minimum test scores required are:

• TOEFL: overall score of 80 
• IELTS: 6.0 or higher
• Cambridge  CAE, CPE or FCE overall score C (169-172)
• Cambridge CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English)

Information on test dates, scheduling, and costs can be obtained at the respective websites of TOEFL, IELTS, or Cambridge English.

 Some international students are granted exemption from the English language test for the Master's programmes. This is the case for students who have obtained:

• their Bachelor's diploma in The Netherlands, the UK, US, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand or Australia or other officially English speaking countries;
• a Bachelor's diploma from an English-taught programme in South Africa
• an accredited international American or British Bachelor's Diploma
• an International Baccalaureate diploma; 
• a Bachelor degree of English language studies.
• A student who has passed one of the mentioned secondary education exams, including English language as a part of the curriculum, can be exempted from the mandatory language test according to article 4.3 from the Code of Conduct, see Diplomalist. 

Source: Code of Conduct HE