Provide academically challenging study programmes for highly talented, ambitious and motivated internationally-oriented students.
Develop scientific, academic and strong analytical skills in students who will be future leaders and CEOs.
Equip these students with the intercultural competences they need for success in an increasingly multicultural and globalised society.
Stimulate students' interest in science, thus enhancing their potential for entry into science-oriented graduate programmes and research.
Support the ambitions of the Dutch knowledge economy and the performance of Amsterdam as a "knowledge hub".
Attract more international students at bachelor level to Amsterdam and to the Netherlands.
Offer young people with an international and/or English-taught secondary school education in the Netherlands an opportunity to follow an international bachelor (honours) programme in Amsterdam at a top quality liberal arts and sciences educational institution.