Admission requirements
Students may join the premaster's programme from a range of first-degree courses. Entrants can come from a variety of backgrounds, including:
- Medicine
- Health Sciences
- Biomedical Sciences
- Computer Science
- and relevant vocational degree courses.
Academic Bachelor's degrees other than Medical informatics
Holders of a Bachelor’s degree in another subject than Medical informatics from a university in the Netherlands or abroad must apply in advance to the Examination Board at the School of Medical Informatics, providing full details of their qualification and its curriculum.
There are three possibilities:
- unconditional admission;
- conditional admission, subject to successful completion of a conversion program of a maximum of 30 ECTS;
- rejection of the application.
English proficiency test
All students with qualifications from outside the Netherlands (EEA and non-EEA) who are non-native English speakers are required to have passed an English proficiency test. The following three tests are accepted as proof of proficiency in English:
- TOEFL, minimum score: 100, sub scores Reading 24, Listening 22, Speaking 25 and Writing 24.
- Cambridge C1 advanced, minimum score 190
- IELTS, minimum score: 7, sub scores 6,5.
Students who have completed a degree in Australia, Canada (except Quebec), Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, or the United States may be granted an exemption from this requirement.
Dutch vocational degree (hbo)
Holders of a Bachelor’s-equivalent hbo degree in a relevant subject, such as Computer Science, can also apply with full details of their qualification and the curriculum. In most cases, these students are admitted to the master, subject to successful completion of the conversion program.