Bachelor in Tourism Management
NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences
Key Information
Campus location
Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
3 - 4 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
EUR 2,530 / per year *
Application deadline
14 Aug 2024
Earliest start date
Sep 2024
* EU students | non-EU students: €9,730
Introduction
Why choose the Tourism Management program offered by NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences?
- Focus on sustainable tourism
- Work on projects from the national and international tourism sector
- Customize your course and choose from over 100 minors we have on offer
- Gain international experience in an international environment, studying abroad and yearly field trips
- Do a seven-month internship and raise your career prospects
- Work on research with NHL Stenden’s European Tourism Futures Institute
Unique offering for the Netherlands:
NHL Stenden offers first-year students a housing guarantee through its accommodation partners. Sign up on time, and you’ll easily find the right place for you. Check out our housing page for more information and the terms of our housing guarantee.
Career Opportunities
Your future
You can take on a wide range of management, administrative and consultancy roles, using your insights to stimulate the tourism industry.
Career opportunities
- Procurement or Sales Manager for instance for a tour operator
- Marketing & Sales Manager for an airline
- Regional Manager for a travel agency
- Governmental Policy Officer
- Contracting Manager or Product
- Manager for instance for a cruise line
- Operations Manager for an ecoresort
- Selfemployed entrepreneur in the travel and leisure industry
Curriculum
The practical way you learn
During your studies, you carry out practical assignments from real companies, working in groups and coached by lecturers and professionals with relevant professional experience. It’s a way of learning, an educational concept, we call Design-Based Education. You learn to draw on feedback to adapt your ideas and become more flexible, while also developing your teamwork and leadership skills.
There’s a world to explore
Our international community brings together over 80 nationalities on our campuses. It’s an open environment that will help you broaden your horizons in many respects. And we offer more options to get you ready for an intercultural work environment. For instance, you could do one of the programmes offered by RUN-EU or, depending on your degree, do your internship abroad or follow a minor subject in a different country through our Grand Tour or Exchange programmes. You get to put together the right combination of courses and internships for you and develop both your professional and personal skills.
Course structure
- Year 1 - Get to know the role of a tourism manager during the two semesters, ‘Unpacking Tourism’ and Innovations and Marketing.’ You learn to examine a destination from different tourism perspectives, develop an innovative tourism experience and a marketing strategy and campaign.
- Year 2 - In the semesters ‘Rethinking Tourism Destinations’ and ‘Managing Talents and Satisfaction’, you will develop a future vision for a tourism destination and work on a simulation of a tourism company.
- Year 3 - Focusing on strategic management and research, you develop your vision of the field and apply your knowledge to developing innovative sustainable solutions. In the second part of the year, you choose two minor elective subjects to specialize in a specific area of tourism.
- Year 4 - Do a 7-month internship anywhere in the world and then write your graduation project
Admissions
Program Tuition Fee
Scholarships and Funding
If you are thinking about applying to NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, you may be eligible for a scholarship. NHL Stenden offers 2 different scholarships for NON-EU/EEA bachelor students.
NL Scholarship
The NL Scholarship is financed by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and Dutch research universities and universities of applied sciences. These scholarships award selected international undergraduate students from outside the EU/EEA with a one-time financial contribution of € 5000.
NHL Stenden Excellency Scholarship
The NHL Stenden Excellency Scholarship is a performance-based scholarship for 1st and 2nd year non-EU/EEA students at NHL Stenden.
Rankings
The Tourism Management programme is accredited by:
- The NVAO (The Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders).
- Status ‘Accridet Member’ of ‘The International Centre of Excellence in Tourism and Hospitality Education’ (THE-ICE).
- Rewarded with the Sustainable Higher Education label by Hobéon.
Facilities
Why study at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences
NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences challenges its students, staff and partners to explore beyond existing solutions and possibilities, to discover and develop their talents so as to contribute to social progress.
- Learn using a practical approach, working in groups on assignments set by industry partners and developing usable solutions
- Get more international opportunities and spend part of your degree studying or doing your internship in a different country, drawing on our global network
- Get the most out of your studies with relatively low tuition rates, well-priced housing (and a housing guarantee) and homely and affordable student cities