Amsterdam University College
Published 11 September 2008

AUC's policy on admissions

AUC students

You are in principle eligible for admission to AUC if you have a secondary school diploma equivalent to the Dutch VWO, including the International Baccalaureate.

Whether or not you will actually be invited to study at AUC will depend on your:

  • academic excellence: you must demonstrate your ability to meet the academic demands of the AUC programme
  • level of proficiency in English and mathematics
  • motivation and ambition to study an intensive and broad programme
  • commitment to contribute to AUC's international student and campus life

Your grade point average (GPA) will be used as an indicator of your academic excellence, and will be taken into consideration alongside your interests and motivation as expressed in

  • an application essay
  • a personal statement (letter of motivation)
  • recommendations from the head of your secondary school and (former) teachers

For more details on the documents required, see our application form and application guidelines.

All applications are carefully assessed on their individual merits, and AUC then decides which students to invite for a personal interview with a selection panel. The interview is not only an opportunity for us to talk to you about your academic performance, your motivation and your ambitions for the future, but also for you to ask questions and get to know AUC a little better. Where possible, you will be expected to attend the interview in person.

After the interviews, the AUC Admissions Committee advises which students should be invited to study at AUC.

In parallel to the consideration of individual students on their personal performance and profile, AUC also pays attention to the composition of a socially coherent yet diverse cohort of students. Excellence and diversity are combined in AUC's mission. Consequently, we seek to establish an academic community that reflects the social, cultural and economic diversity of our globalising world and that fosters global knowledge and international and intercultural learning through ongoing dialogue among people with a variety of experiences and lifeviews.

AUC therefore aims to put together a student body with a high academic profile and a mix of social, cultural and economic backgrounds, as the best teaching and learning environment to foster global knowledge and international and intercultural learning.

AUC currently admits a maximum of 200 students per year. Both Dutch and international students are welcome to apply. AUC is committed to non-discrimination, and will admit students of any race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status or physical disability. To help ensure equality of opportunity for all students, a scholarship programme is available.

Source: AUC
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