If you have obtained an academic Bachelor’s degree that does not grant (direct) access to the Master’s of your choosing, you can do a pre-Master’s programme in order to meet the entry requirements. Because of your academic Bachelor’s degree, you will not need to take the two Academic Skills courses (2x6 ECTS) that are normally core elements of our pre-Master’s programmes, which means that your pre-Master’s will comprise 30 ECTS (instead of 42 ECTS).

A degree from a Dutch University of Applied Sciences (HBO) does not grant access to an academic Master’s programme. However, if you obtained an HBO Bachelor’s degree in a related field of study, you will in most cases be able to meet the Master’s entry requirements by successfully completing a pre-Master’s programme. By default, pre-Master’s programmes comprise 42 ECTS. The courses Academic Skills and Philosophy of the Humanities are core elements.

In all cases, you will automatically meet the Master’s entry requirements as long as you successfully complete the pre-Master’s within a year.

You will find an overview of the Faculty of Humanities’ pre-Master’s programmes below. You can also check out the Master’s of your choosing in order to see whether it offers a pre-Master’s programme.

Are you doing an academic Bachelor’s and would you like to do a Master’s programme to which your programme does not automatically grant you (direct) access? You can increase your options in the Master’s phase by doing a minor. In the near future, this page will present you with an overview of minors which, when combined with the completion of an academic Bachelor’s, grant direct access to a Master’s programme. Depending on your personal study plan, other options may also be open to you. Please also visit our list of all of the minors that are offered by the Faculty of Humanities.

HBO Bachelor’s: influx programme

In certain cases, you can do an influx programme during your HBO Bachelor’s in order to compensate for your deficiencies, so that you are directly admissible to the Master’s of your choosing after completing your Bachelor’s. This applies in the following cases:

• Archeologie voor Saxion-studenten (grants access to the Master’s Archaeology)
• Minor Gebarenwetenschap/Sign Linguistics for students who are doing the programme Leraar/Tolk Nederlandse Gebarentaal at the Hogeschool Utrecht (University of Applied Sciences Utrecht)

Please note: this list is not yet complete and may be subject to change.