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FAQs Bachelor Course

Procedure (as PDF file)

PDF available in English - also available in Dutch.

Apply for 1st year?

Selection Days
• Tuesday 16 April
• Wednesday 17 April
• Thursday 18 April 2013

To Do
• 15-minute presentation of your work, in English
   (if you prefer it is also possible to present your work in Dutch)
• signed admission form

Presentation

1) 5 projects you’ve made
2) a portfolio, A4-size (which we will keep permanently):

  • cover with name, your picture and your contact details
  • pag 1-2: pictures of your home assignment
  • other pages: pictures of 10-15 of your own (recent) projects

3) the home assignment ‘A little gift of time’
 

You will receive a confirmation email after filling in the form. Attached to this email is a pdf-file. On the last page of this file the date and time of your selection day is mentioned.

Results: early in May by e-mail

Apply for 2nd / 3rd year?

Portfolio Presentation:
• Digital via www.wetransfer.com to admission@designacademy.nl , stating Year 2 or Year 3).
• Pages 1-2: application form with your signature
• Page 3: introduction: who are you & picture?
• Pages 4-20: selection of current work and process (max 3 years old)
• Page 21:  motivation and department preference
• Page 22: contact details with name, address, mobile number, Skype, e-mail address.

Technical requirements:
• 1 PDF in print quality of 22 pages (do not send in separate one-page documents)
• filename: ‘HI1314_first name_last name_date.pdf’.

Results: within a few weeks by email.

Deadline?

Application for 2013-14 has ended.

YOUR PHOTO?

Make sure you upload a picture which is the same as your passport photo (or has the same restrictions). All other photos won't be accepted.

Selection criteria?

Apart from diplomas and/or tests:

  • creativity
  • vision
  • visual skills
  • reflective skills
  • ...and a range of other skills.

Requirements?

• HAVO-, VWO- or MBO-4-diploma (senior general secondary education, pre-university education, or senior secondary vocational education)
• Not appropriate diploma, but 21 or over > pass HBO-test

Tuition fee?

  bachelor course master course
EER* (NL included) € 1.835 € 1.835
NON-EER € 7.460 € 13.460
For each student: Academy fund € 100
Payment in 5 installments: Administration cost € 30

* EER = European Union, Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein

More questions?

If you have any questions, please contact Design Academy Eindhoven:
telephone +31 (0)40 239 39 39, or admission@designacademy.nl .

Or read general information about admission requirements in the Netherlands.

Visit our academy?

Visit our open days between 11.00 and 16.00 to learn more about
our Bachelor course at Design Academy Eindhoven.

Cancel your admission?

If you wish to cancel your application, send an e-mail to admission@designacademy.nl stating ‘cancellation application’ and explain us why.

Additional information

Re-enrollment?

English > Step-by-step plan:
Re-enroll via Studielink: Re-enrollment Studielink.pdf

Nederlands > Stappenplan:
Herinschrijven: Stappenplan Herinschrijven.pdf

Housing in Eindhoven?

Here you can find more information on Housing in Eindhoven

Digital Payment and DigiD

How to make a digital payment using studielink:
(only possible with Dutch bank account)

English > Digital Payment Studielink.pdf

Nederlands > Stappenplan - Digitale machtiging.pdf

Extra: What is DigiD - information from the site DigiD.pdf

International students?

Please see additional websites for information about studing in the Netehrlands:
Nuffic:  http://www.studyinholland.nl/
IND: http://www.newtoholland.nl/NewToHolland/app/en/home

Information for new European, BA students

 
  • You will receive the acceptance letter, this is the e-mail you received  from the admission committee
 
  • Herewith we send you the tuition fee form for study year 2013-2014.
Will you fill out this form and send the original as soon as possible back to the academy. We need the form for our auditing.
You have to transfer the fees by yourself  before August 1st  2013. It is not possible to do the payment in installments.
In the letter, we ask for a studentnumber. It is not possible for you to fill in this number, because you do not have this number yet.
                   
 
 
Tuiton fees
€    1835,--
Academy fund
€      100.--
TOTAL
€  1935.--
 
             
bankaccount number:
22.53.35.395 
IBAN: NL37FVLB0225335395
SWIFT: FVLBNL22

bank address:
F. van Lanschot Bankiers NV
Parklaan 52
5613 BH Eindhoven 
 
 
 
  • Housing
You have to look for housing by yourself.
Please click on the following link for a list of room agencies:
       http://www.designacademy.nl/Study/Bachelor/Apply.aspx 
       We need a copy of the rental contract of your apartment/room/house, before October
       1st  2013.
 
 
  • Health insurance:
You need a health insurance by the Dutch law
Look also for more information at the site from Nuffic.
Design Academy Eindhoven has contacts with IAK insurances: www.iak.nl
You can apply for a  Dutch health insurance in the Netherlands, for this you need a Dutch   
bankaccountnumber for the payment
 
 
  • Studielink
You have to do an enrolment in Studielink, it is a digital office where all the students for Dutch higher education, have to enrol themselves.
 
  • Copy passport
We need a copy off your passport, only the pages where your personal details are written. Your  passport must be valid for 1 year after 1 September 2013.
 
 
  • Diploma
We need a certified copy of your diploma. This is only possible if you are graduated. As soon as           
you will get your original diploma, we need a certified copy of it.
THIS MEANS:
Make a copy of your original diploma,
Go to your school where you are graduated,
Let it sign and stamped ( with a signature of a blue pen),  by the Head of your school,
and send it by normal post to the academy (not by email) to:
                                         
 
 
Design Academy Eindhoven
Student administration
PO BOX 2125
5600 CC Eindhoven
 
 
 
                                If the copy is not certified you are not admissible!
 
We do not need a copy of your list of marks.
If you will receive your original diploma after August 31th 2013, we need a signed letter from 
the examination board of your school that you passed your exams.
 
Take care:
When your diploma is not in English you have to let it be translated by a sworn translator.
 
For all the other information, please contact us by sending an e-mail to:
 
With the entire correspondence write down your name, country and education you will follow, per example Bachelors 1st year or higher year.
 

 

Information for new NON - EU, BA students

 
  • You will receive the acceptance letter, this is the e-mail you received  from the admission committee
 
  • Herewith we send you the tuition fee form for study year 2013-2014.
Will you fill out this form and send the original as soon as possible back to the academy. We need the form for our auditing.
You have to transfer the fees by yourself  before August 1st  2013. It is not possible to do the payment in installments.
In the letter, we ask for a studentnumber. It is not possible for you to fill in this number, because you do not have this number yet.
                   
 
 
Tuiton fees
€    1835,--
Academy fund
€      100.--
TOTAL
€  1935.--
 
             
bankaccount number:
22.53.35.395 
IBAN: NL37FVLB0225335395
SWIFT: FVLBNL22

bank address:
F. van Lanschot Bankiers NV
Parklaan 52
5613 BH Eindhoven 
 
 
 
  • Housing
You have to look for housing by yourself.
Please click on the following link for a list of room agencies:
       http://www.designacademy.nl/Study/Bachelor/Apply.aspx 
       We need a copy of the rental contract of your apartment/room/house, before October
       1st  2013.
 
 
  • Health insurance:
You need a health insurance by the Dutch law
Look also for more information at the site from Nuffic.
Design Academy Eindhoven has contacts with IAK insurances: www.iak.nl
You can apply for a  Dutch health insurance in the Netherlands, for this you need a Dutch   
bankaccountnumber for the payment
 
 
  • Studielink
You have to do an enrolment in Studielink, it is a digital office where all the students for Dutch higher education, have to enrol themselves.
 
  • Copy passport
We need a copy off your passport, only the pages where your personal details are written. Your  passport must be valid for 1 year after 1 September 2013.
 
 
  • Diploma
We need a certified copy of your diploma. This is only possible if you are graduated. As soon as           
you will get your original diploma, we need a certified copy of it.
THIS MEANS:
Make a copy of your original diploma,
Go to your school where you are graduated,
Let it sign and stamped ( with a signature of a blue pen),  by the Head of your school,
and send it by normal post to the academy (not by email) to:
                                         
 
 
Design Academy Eindhoven
Student administration
PO BOX 2125
5600 CC Eindhoven
 
 
 
                                If the copy is not certified you are not admissible!
 
We do not need a copy of your list of marks.
If you will receive your original diploma after August 31th 2013, we need a signed letter from 
the examination board of your school that you passed your exams.
 
Take care:
When your diploma is not in English you have to let it be translated by a sworn translator.
 
For all the other information, please contact us by sending an e-mail to:
 
With the entire correspondence write down your name, country and education you will follow, per example Bachelors 1st year or higher year.
 

 

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