Students must meet the following admission requirements : 1. Academic requirements Your previous education needs to be deemed equivalent to at least a Dutch academic Bachelor’s degree ( wetenschappelijk onderwijs, WO ) obtained at a research university (nominal duration 3 years). Please find more information about your admissibility with a non-Dutch degree here . Professional certificates in Accounting are not accepted for meeting these academic requirements. However, in combination with a qualifying academic degree in another field, certificates from the ACCA qualification (excluding foundations courses) may be accepted for meeting the programme-specific requirements below. 2. Programme specific requirements 42 ECTS in Accounting and/or Finance courses Accounting is meant broadly and may include, in addition to the essentials of financial and management accounting, topics such as auditing, accounting information systems, and elements of corporate governance. Apart from corporate finance, it may also include financial analysis and financial management. This means that we expect you to have successfully completed courses based on the following literature, or equivalent: Financial Accounting Elliott & Elliott, Financial Accounting and Reporting (Pearson Education), recent edition Management Accounting Rajan, Datar & Horngren, Cost Accounting , Global Edition (Pearson Education), recent edition Finance Berk & DeMarzo Corporate Finance, Global Edition (Pearson Education), recent edition Statistics Doane & Seward, Applied Statistics in Business & Economics (McGraw-Hill), recent edition And preferably one more courses based on the following, or equivalent: Financial Statement Analysis Healy & Palepu, Business Analysis Valuation: Using Financial Statements (Cengage Learning), recent edition Accounting Information Systems Romney & Steinbart, Accounting Information Systems, Global Edition (Pearson), recent edition Auditing Principles of Auditing’ by Rick Hayes, Hans Gortemaker, and Philip Wallage, (Pearson), recent edition Coding skills The mandatory course Data Analytics for Accounting and Control assumes some prior knowledge of the Python programming language, and preferably also the NumPy and pandas packages from the Python ecosystem, as taught in the course Coding Skills (Premaster Accounting & Control). Students who have no or very little prior knowledge of programming can prepare themselves for the course with basic learning materials available at https://github.com/martscho1/basic_python_coding_skills (links to an external site). Students who are experienced in using R will normally be able to adapt to using Python during the course. How to demonstrate that you meet the above requirements You are required to indicate in the course description section of the Application Form how you meet the programme specific admission requirements. Whether you meet the admission requirements, is determined by the Admission Board based on your complete application. 3. English-language proficiency requirements You will have to demonstrate sufficient English language proficiency. You can find an overview of relevant information to demonstrate your English language proficiency on the language requirement page .
To apply you are required to provide the following documents: Scan of your passport or national ID card (ID for EEA students only) valid at the start date of the programme Master Application File please download the correct file from this page . In this file you can see which documents are required to apply for your programme. Proof of English language proficiency (if already obtained): upload your proof of English language proficiency or English language test results. Please find the English language requirements here . After having prepared the required documents, please follow the online application procedure .
All students seeking admission to an international Master’s programme with an international degree are required to pay a non-refundable €100 application fee. Only after you have paid this fee will we be able to start the evaluation of your application file. If you are applying for more than one programme, you will only need to pay the application fee once. Your application fee payment is valid for two years. Information on how to apply with an international university degree and deadlines can be found here .
Because accounting and control touches every part of any business, the programme will prepare you for many different roles, e.g., business controller, external/internal auditor, financial analyst, tax inspector or banking supervisor. Whichever path you choose, you’ll need to know how to put your accounting skills to good use professionally, responsibly and ethically.