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Honours programme

Do you want to make the most of your talents? Are you creative and driven? Then HU Honours is for you! Join other ambitious students from across the university and make a difference in your career and for society.

You follow an honours track alongside your regular programme, and you won’t receive credits, but stars for your work. Once you’ve earned five stars, you can request a final assessment to show that you are a ‘leading professional in value creation for professional practice and society’. A positive result on your final assessment leads to receiving an Honours certificate with your diploma.

The programme

At Hogeschool Utrecht, you can choose from a wide range of honours courses and projects, varying in duration, content, and skills.

Deepen your expertise and specialize in a subject that fascinates you within your field of study. Or explore new skills and learn about current societal themes through courses. Discover who you are, what issues are present in the world, and how you relate to these themes. Prefer working on your own project or idea? You can pursue those in Honours as well.

HU offers various five-star honours programmes. These are linked to HU’s core values as well as trends in society. Honours programmes are focused on complex social issues and are therefore often interdisciplinary in character.

Some honours programmes are aimed at students of specific programmes, such as the Top Class for students in Health Care studies. Other honours programmes are open to all HU students, such as the Social Innovation Honours Programme.

Deepen your knowledge and skills
Each HU programme offers a number of their regular courses at honours level. This means you will have one of more honours assignments in addition to the regular course content. With these honours assignments you deepen your knowledge and skills.

Broaden your knowledge and skills
You can also opt to expand your knowledge and skills beyond your field of study by participating in courses designed to broaden your expertise. You will learn more about social issues and personal development. Explore the options for English-taught courses in the year overview.

For each course you receive one star upon successful completion of the honours assignment(s).

It is possible to do extra projects or assignments that aren’t linked to your programme but that you do in collaboration with a business or social organisation. This allows for plenty of room for initiative and innovation.

Do you have an interesting idea you want to tackle? Do you have a special skill you want to develop further? Then choose the personal route. Keep in mind that the product or service you develop needs to add value to professional practice or society.

You choose your own project and organise your own route, but you can get guidance from an honours professor if you so wish.