Hogeschool Haarlem

Group work is essential to complete the study, therefore I recommend to work in a group where you can interact with students from different countries. The advantage to work in such a group is to be trained working with people with different background, thoughts, behaviour and culture but also breaking other boundaries. You will experience a lot of difficulties, but if you are able to manage these difficulties and give good performance, this will be an assert for your future.

Improvement regarding to the international office could be made, to be more supportive to foreign students.

As long as you have everything in writing you will be ok, stand up for what you need and you will succeed. The word bargain is a strong dutch word.

holland is not about the acedemic life, its about how you grow as a person. This will translate into priority building and social and cultural awareness.

In order to have more free time (for instance for an internship), it is more interesting to take most of the courses during the first semester! Students really have to choose the Music Business Class! It was my favourite one!

Have a better consideration towards foreign students

Good amount of courses to choose from, but you don't learn too much in any of them.

The classes are a joke. One test and/or paper makes up the entire class. Most teachers do not bother to actually teach their subject. Very easy to get good grades here.

Be more mixt with dutch students.

The education system is differnt but good as well.

The English courses offered were limited, and the classes themselves were pretty much a joke. We rarely had homework (maybe one paper/test a semester), and classes only met once a week. Students don't even have to buy books! I didn't learn much, but I did get all A's, which transferred back nicely to my home university.

No. I really didn't go to the Netherlands for the academic experience. I went to learn about other cultuers, travel, meet new people, and to have a great stress-free time.