What are the language requirements for the Learning Communities?

Be aware that there are three Dutch-taught Learning Communities and only one English-taught Learning Community. This means that the number of available English-taught places is limited. Moreover, the places available in the English-taught Learning Community are not exclusively reserved for non-Dutch students. Note that there are strict language requirements for admission to the Dutch and the English Learning Communities, see the Admission page and the Selection, Admission, Requirements and Deficiencies page.

 

Candidates who do not yet meet the requirements for admission to the Dutch-taught Learning Communities can satisfy these requirements through three different routes:

1. Dutch native-speaker prospective students who have Dutch as their mother tongue, but have obtained a foreign final exam diploma can take the C-test. This test serves to determine whether you are indeed a native speaker of Dutch and it can be taken only once at the Language Centre of the University of Groningen.

2. Non-native adult speakers can follow NT2-II courses, which implies a year-long language programme, and take the national language proficiency exams for Dutch as a Second Language (NT2: Nederlands als tweede taal).

3. Non-native adult speakers may satisfy the requirements by obtaining the Certificate Dutch as a Foreign Language (CNaVT) exam on B2 level.

 

Dutch candidates with a VWO diploma already meet all language requirements.

 

For more information you could also read this document.