Bachelor in Information Technology (IT)

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Your future

With your highly developed conceptual skills and your ability to work in and manage a team, you’ll have a variety of careers open to you.

Career opportunities

• Software engineer developing specific software for companies and institutions that better serves their clients
• Certified Ethical Hacker acting as an advisor on IT security matters
• Full stack developer design, develop and maintain both the backend and the frontend components of software applications
• IT Consultant evaluating a company’s IT system to help them achieve their business goals
• Embedded systems engineer programming for embedded systems (devices, machines, robots)

The practical way you learn

During your studies, you carry out practical assignments from real companies, working in groups and coached by lecturers and professionals with relevant professional experience. It’s a way of learning, an educational concept, we call DesignBased Education. You learn to draw on feedback to adapt your ideas and become more flexible, while also developing your teamwork and leadership skills.

There’s a world to explore

Our international community brings together over 80 nationalities on our campuses. It’s an open environment that will help you broaden your horizons in many respects. And we offer more options to get you ready for an intercultural work environment. For instance, you could do one of the programmes offered by RUNEU or, depending on your degree, do your internship abroad or follow a minor subject in a different country through our Grand Tour or Exchange programmes. You get to put together the right combination of courses and internships for you and develop both your professional and personal skills.

Course structure

• Year 1 – Work on your basic programming skills, and apply your skills in project work, setting up a database, programming a robot and turning your own idea into reality.
• Year 2 – Learn to program efficiently and effectively, master algorithms and data structures, and improve your programming skills in various languages. You will be working on assignments from external clients.
• Year 3 – Do a five-month internship, in the Netherlands or abroad or set up your own business Follow-up your internship with modules such as Design Patterns, IT architecture, IT change management and Threading in C#.
• Year 4 - Spend the first half year specialising with a minor subject and then finish your studies with a graduation project in a professional environment.

All degrees offered by NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences are accredited by the NVAO in the Netherlands (The Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders).

NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences challenges its students, staff and partners to explore beyond existing solutions and possibilities, to discover and develop their talents so as to contribute to social progress.

• Learn using a practical approach, working in groups on assignments set by industry partners and developing usable solutions
• Get more international opportunities and spend part of your degree studying or doing your internship in a different country, drawing on our global network
• Get the most out of your studies with relatively low tuition rates, well-priced housing (and a housing guarantee) and homely and affordable student cities