Don’t fall for Marketing. It’s a de-organised institution that doesn’t seems to get on track no matter how much time is passing. I have never seen this level of de organisation, especially since NHL Stenden is a Dutch university after all and this country is renewed for the organisation. In my country this could not be a legal higher educational institution, I am not sure how this can work. Trust me, you cannot comprehend (if you are not familiar with this “university”) what a mess it is. Unfortunately, I wasted too much time in my life and money. You can find real, superior universities in the rest of the NL and Europe. This shouldn’t even exist in a normal setting.

I can’t believe how unorganized NHL Stenden is. I graduated this year and still didn’t receive my bachelor’s certificate because I need to pick it up in person! I’m an international student and how can they expect be to be there in person if I already work fulltime in another country?

Besides that, I studied at one of their partner universities for 3 years and then transferred in my fourth year to NHL Stenden (it’s how the study program works). When it was time to transfer to NHL Stenden at the beginning of my fourth year it was a complete disaster. No one knew what to do. All the different departments within NHL don’t communicate. I had to run after them! Even though they are the ones offering this study program. Lol.
When I finished my fourth year they let me know that some of my grades are missing in progresswww (online portal for grades). They acted like it was my fault but in reality, I passed everything and also had proof. It took 2 months of running after them to finally fix my grades!!!!
In the end they corrected everything but let me tell you it was a massive headache.

Over the months, we wrote numerous emails regarding complaints from multiple students about the organization of the school, but each time we don’t get a decisive answer or they won’t speak and resolve their issues.
The administration takes several weeks to process a single document! Although courses are promoted well, they have little market value since they are not relevant to careers after completion of the course. It took them ages to publish grades, surprisingly, they failed many other students because the more you stay, the more you pay!

I study Hospitality Management. I cannot recommend this university at all. The teachers are not real teachers, most of them are without pedagogic diplomas, and some of them even without any form of high education. They sent me in exchange and I had to sent them a Learning Agreement 27 times. Every time they would tell me something different about what needed to be in. A total joke. Is like the university departments don’t know about the existence of each other. Please, listen to my advice when I tell you that you could easily find a better university in the Netherlands or Europe. The quality of the studies is also really questionable because of the laziness of the so-called teachers of NHLStenden.

I highly recommend having a look at NHL Stenden offer of studies as they recently launched a new system called DBE, design-based education, which basically lets you learn at your own pace, in teams and from industry challenges.

NHL Stenden recently introduced Design Based Education system, which differs a lot from the previous Problem Based Learning education system. This was, according to the students’ feedback: a disaster. The new education aims to empower more the students, which could sound positive, although many negative points are not taken into consideration. The whole semester relies on a Design Challenge that aims to provide a client (real industry partner), with solutions for its problem, the Project Team in this way will be focusing on this for 20 weeks, but if the challenge will embrace only a particular field, they will be forced to forget about the others, which makes the program less wide.
This is just small anticipation.
Feel free to contact me in case you are interested in further feedback about NHL Stenden educational shift!

Absolutely amazing abroad opportunities and with a hotel of the university to learn the practical part of the study. International environment and last year is a year of internship which creates a lot of job opportunities

I did the hospitality and tourism study at Stenden University. The university offered a good variety of practical and theoretical classes. Moreover, the balance of theoretical classes was nice: lectures and small groups of only 12 persons. In that way, individual support could be given as well.

International environment. Great opportunities abroad.
During the study, there are possibilities to do some part of your studies abroad. The school is nicely arranged with good facilities for students.

The university has a great base and lots of amenities (comfortable furniture, modern equipment, many choices for inexpensive food, competent teachers, free coffee and tea). Most of the students (70-80%) are Dutch but there are also students from all around the world. The prevalent number of foreign students come from Romania, Bulgaria, Germany, and Dutch colonies (Saint Martin (Caribbean archipelago)). There is a gym right next to the university which is a property of the university and that is handy because one can o two of his daily tasks on the same day at almost the same location. The internal organization is not on a good level. There is new software that the university develops and they are not working properly every time. Not enough explanation is given on how the students need to find the needed information both for their studies and for practical matters e.g. registering for a loan or getting a GP. Some of the teachers are not fully aware of how the systems are working and are sometimes incompetent in school matters and procedures. A frequent phenomenon is having a question and going to one of the desks, then one is sent to another one, and then to another one, without a guarantee that the question is going to be elucidated. There is big parking for bikes which is handy. The school materials that are provided are top-notch and the student has access to a plethora of online and hard copy sources.