Public Management

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The Bachelor of International Public Management is a four year, full-time programme. It´s a very practical, hands-on programme, where you´ll learn by doing.

In the first two years, you´ll learn the fundamentals, developing the skills and knowledge you´ll actually need in your career. But you´ll spend quite a lot of your time actually working on team projects, solving problems drawn from real life scenarios.

In the final two years of your programme, you´ll have to apply everything you´ve learned and practiced on a work placement, or job, for a real organisation. So you´ll graduate with two years of experience already behind you. You choose your minors, your work placement and your thesis subject, so you can customize your final two years to your own ambitions and career goals.

Content

The first two years of the programme are when most of the classroom-based learning takes place. You’ll explore subjects and themes like:

• Public Management
• Trade, Economics and Governance
• International Law
• International Organisations
• Political Science
• Finance
• Social Science
• Professional English
• Management Skills
• International Relations

You’ll learn through a mix of lectures, group debates and discussions, team projects and individual assignments.

In the final two years, you’ll have more of a say over what you study. While you work for a real organisation on a work placement, you can specialise in a field that interests you – either one of the offered minors (European Public Management, European Public Management, Globalization and its new divides, Globalisation, Governance and Governments, International Law) or a different field altogether.

You’re in control of your own career.

Major-minor

In the last two years of the programme, you have the chance to specialise, by taking on a `minor´. Taking the right minor can help lay the foundations for further studies. The examples of minors offered by the Academy of Public Management, Safety and Law include:

• European Public Management
• Globalization and its new divides
• Globalisation, Governance and Governments
• International Law

If you choose any of these minors, you could choose to go straight on to do Master´s degree either here at The Hague, at Leiden University - or one of our partner institutions.

But you can choose a minor from another field, too. It´s up to you to shape your studies in a way that suits your future career.

Accreditation

The Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO), is responsible for accrediting study programmes offered by Dutch universities. All international bachelor’s and master’s programmes offered by The Hague University of Applied Sciences are NVAO recognised.

Funding details

Scholarships are very popular nowadays and a subject considered by nearly every student who decides to study abroad. In the following sections we will try to give you the most recent and essential information about scholarship opportunities for international students in the Netherlands.

Scholarships in your home country

If you’re an international student it’s worth checking out if any scholarships are available in your home country. For example, American students can apply for a Fulbright scholarship and there is an EU-South Africa Scholarship programme for South African students. Your country may offer similar grants. For more information or application forms contact your local Dutch embassy - or ask your present college or university if you are coming here for a bachelor programme. www.grantfinder.nl also has some useful information on scholarships.

Nuffic

The Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education (Nuffic) offers a variety of additional scholarships for students from all over the world. Erasmus Mundus is a new European Commission programme that aims to improve the quality of European higher education and encourage co-operation with countries outside the EU.

• • Worldwide
• • Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe
• • Asia
• • Europe
• • North America

ScholarshipPortal.eu

This website offers a centralized European platform for information about all scholarships offered for study in Europe. The database lists more than 700 different scholarships and grants amounting to an estimated yearly average of € 15.6 billion in funding.