Admission and enrolment
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September intake
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September intake
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September intake
Apply by 1 May at the latest if you want to receive housing assistance by Radboud University. If you don’t want to receive housing assistance, then apply by 1 July at the latest.
Application period
September intake
Apply by 1 May at the latest if you want to receive housing assistance by Radboud University. If you don’t want to receive housing assistance, then apply by 1 July at the latest.
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September intake
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September intake
Dutch degree
Admission requirements
You can be admitted into this pre-Master’s with a Bachelor’s degree in:
- International Studies
- Political Sciences
- Anthropology
- Social Geography
- other Humanities degree if sufficiently related (to be determined by the Admissions Board), from a research university.
The maximum size of the pre-Master’s programme is 30 EC and depends on the course content of your previous degree.
Did you complete another relevant Bachelor’s? You may qualify for a 60 EC pre-Master’s. After receiving your full application, the Admissions Board will be able to determine whether your previous education is sufficient for admission.
You can be admitted into this pre-Master’s with a Bachelor’s degree Teacher Education in English, History or Social Science from a university of applied science. The size of the pre-Master’s programme is 60 EC.
Did you complete another relevant Bachelor’s? You are welcome to apply for this pre-Master’s. After receiving your full application, the Admissions Board will be able to determine whether your previous education is sufficient for admission.
Did you already complete part of the pre-Master’s during your Kies-Op-Maat Minor? The Admissions Board will take this into account when establishing your pre-Master’s programme.
In order to be admitted to our pre-Master’s programme, you have to meet the language requirements:
- IELTS Academic (note: not IELTS Online) with overall score ≥6.5 and all subscores ≥6.0
- TOEFL iBT (note: not Home Edition) with overall score ≥90 and all subscores ≥20
- Cambridge C1 Advanced with overall score ≥176 and all subscores ≥169
- Cambridge C2 Proficiency with overall score ≥180 and all subscores ≥169
- Dutch VWO State Exam in English
- Approved diploma of English-taught secondary education (International Baccalaureate and selected European degrees)
- University Bachelor’s degree from an English-taught programme obtained from a recognized university in Australia, Canada (with the exception of Quebec), Ireland, New-Zealand, United Kingdom or United States.
Non-Dutch degree
Admission requirements
Did you complete a relevant Bachelor’s outside of the Netherlands? You are welcome to apply for the Master’s programme in Transatlantic Studies. After receiving your full application, the Admissions Board will be able to determine whether your previous education is sufficient for direct admission, or if a pre-Master’s is required first.
In order to be admitted to our pre-Master’s programme, you have to be fluent in English (reading, writing, listening and speaking). To meet this requirement you’ll have to provide one of the following certificates or diploma’s:
- IELTS Academic (note: not IELTS Online) with overall score ≥6.5 and all subscores ≥6.0
- TOEFL iBT (note: not Home Edition) with overall score ≥90 and all subscores ≥20
- Cambridge C1 Advanced with overall score ≥176 and all subscores ≥169
- Cambridge C2 Proficiency with overall score ≥180 and all subscores ≥169
- Dutch VWO State Exam in English
- University Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from an English-taught programme obtained from a recognized university in Australia, Canada (with the exception of Quebec), Ireland, New-Zealand, United Kingdom or United States.
Application procedure
To apply for a programme, you need to submit a request for enrolment in Studielink before the application deadline. Before you apply, please check the admission requirements and then follow the steps below.
Steps
Step 1: Submit your enrolment request via Studielink
Apply for your chosen pre-Master’s programme via Studielink. You can apply for a programme for the following academic year from 1 October onwards.
Submitting a request for enrolment requires the following steps in Studielink.
- Go to 'Study programmes' and select 'Add new enrolment application'
- Search for your pre-Master’s programme by name: ‘Pre-Master’s in [name of study programme]’. The name of the pre-Master’s programme is often the name of the Master’s (specialisation).
- Select the educational institution: Radboud University
- Select the type of study programme: WO Bachelor
Register on time! You do not need to have completed your previous education when you apply. You can find the application deadline at the top of the Admission & Application page of the pre-Master's programme.
Step 2: Fill in the digital questionnaire
Because your prior education needs to be assessed, you will receive the login details for a digital questionnaire at the email address that you provided in Studielink. Log in, complete the questionnaire and upload the requested documents.
Please make sure that you submit your questionnaire and the documents before the application deadline of the pre-Master's. If you do this after the deadline, there is no guarantee that we will be able to process your application for admission in time. You can find the application deadline at the top of the Admission & Application page of the pre-Master's programme.
Step 3: Keep an eye on your inbox
Your request for admission will then be processed. Within approximately 3 weeks after you have submitted the digital questionnaire, Student Admissions will inform you by email about the admission decision. There are three possible outcomes:
- You will be granted unconditional admission, which means you can enrol for the programme.
- You will be granted conditional admission: there are conditions that you will need to fulfil before definitive admission can be granted. You will receive an email about what these conditions mean.
- You will not be granted admission: your application will then be withdrawn from Studielink and unfortunately you cannot enrol for this pre-Master's. You will receive further details by email.
The details of this outcome will be forwarded to the email address that you provided in Studielink.
Have you been admitted to the pre-Master’s?
You can now enrol for the programme.
Application procedure
How to apply for a pre-Master's programme if you have a non-Dutch previous education:
Students with a non-Dutch previous education cannot directly apply for a pre-Master’s. You must first apply for a selected Master's programme.
If you do not meet all the admission requirements for your selected Master's programme, you may be offered admission to the pre-Master's programme. This will be communicated in your admission email.
Completing the pre-Master's programme grants you direct admission to the Master's programme.
Questions?
Contact us via email at admissions [at] ru.nl (admissions[at]ru[dot]nl).