Student review [#13865] for Business Management
at Wageningen University

Wageningen University is a great place to study agricultural and food science. However, if you are looking for business, economics and management-related subjects, I would NOT recommend this university. I had a horrible experience in writing my thesis in the department of Social science, more specifically the chair group of BMO (business management and organisation). I have never seen such high conflict of interest among the professors and researchers inside an organisation: most of the professors just don’t talk to each other or disagree with each other; if a student has two supervisors for thesis, then the student can’t proceed in writing the thesis because the professors just can’t agree between them for the topic chosen by the student; if there is a complaint from student or other external people, they just don’t care at all.
I spent 7 horrible months in the department of BMO writing my thesis. I was assigned a supervisor who never replied to my emails. I only had two meeting with him at beginning of my thesis, each one of 10 minutes without getting any feedback for my thesis. Finally, I had even to delay my graduation for few months at my own expenses because I didn’t get authorization to defend my thesis from my supervisor and I couldn’t reach him (by email or in person as he was never in the office). Not even the secretary of the department knows where and when i can see him.
Eventually, I even got the lowest mark (6) for my thesis. I reported these malpractices to the Board of the university. Hopefully, the board recognized the seriousness of this problem and took action to increase the mark of my thesis for a little bit.
I reported these malpractices also to the chairman of BMO department, which was the department where i spent time in writing my thesis, as this experience wasted my time and the result of my study could have a negative impact on my future career. He apologized for this experience and promised to provide me support (like suggestions for PhD and job, letter of recommendation for job or Phd…). However, a month later I wrote him a few emails asking for what he promised, and I never got any replies from him. This shows the lack of reliability and respect of the professors and people working inside this department.
Unfortunately, I also saw a few of my friends who had a bad experience in this department.
All in all, Wageningen University is considered a good place to study agri-food and biotechnology sciences, but not in the field of management and economics. I would suggest you to keep away from the chair group of Business Management and Organisation because they are not believable.