FAQ Bachelor International Relations and International Organization

For a start in September 2022: We encourage all candidates to hand in the application before 15 December 2022. The steps are explained on the Admission page. The final deadline is 15 January 2023. Please read the admission page carefully.

No, the selection takes place via the Selection form.

Please follow the instructions in the Selection form.

If you have the result before 15 January, you can indicate this in the selection form and it will be taken into account for the selection procedure. If you receive the result after 15 January, you cannot use it in the selection form, but you can still hand it in at a later date, in order for it to be taken into account for validation of the general admission criteria.

It depends on the number of applications we will receive, but if you fill out the selection form, and fulfil the selection criteria, you will - in our experience - have a good chance of being selected and offered a place.

In order to prepare for this procedure you could make sure to obtain good grades in your current education, but you could also think, for example, about taking an additional language course, do volunteers work, get a side job, or other extra curricular activities that perhaps also relate to International Relations - such as the IRIO Webclass. All these things could add to your application and your chances of obtaining a place in the programme.

You will have to choose and complete 30 EC of one of the languages on offer in the programme. If you want, from your second year, it can be possible to register for a second language, but this language course will then be extra-curricular.

There are three courses in the programme that focus on economics: Introduction to Economics, International Political Economy of Trade and International Political Economy of Monetary Relations (you can find the course descriptions in the Online Course Catalogue). No previous knowledge of economics (or mathematics) is required: you will start in the first year with the prepatory course: Introduction to Economics which will teach you the basics you need.

In the third year of the BA programme, you will have a semester reserved for your minor. The minor is for specializing or diversifying your studies, and you can choose from a wide rage of elective minors, such as Development Studies, Philosophy, American Studies or Journalism. You can also choose to do your minor abroad, for instance in Madrid, Hong-Kong or Bogotá, or get some work experience by doing an internship at an organisation/institution in the field of international or foreign relations, in or outside of the Netherlands.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to transfer to a higher year. Because we are a quota programme, we can only accept students who have taken part in the selection procedure and have applied before the deadline.

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