I am an HU student and I want to participate in an HU minor

There are about 40 English taught minors to choose from. These range from broad minors such as Mindful Communication and Beyond Borders to highly specialised minors such as Social Robotics and International Pharmaceutical Studies, which allow you to really delve into your field of study.

Interested in the Dutch taught minors? Click here.

Some minors have entry requirements. Please check the information page for the minor in question under the Admission heading.

To complete your profiling space, you will need prior approval from your degree programme’s examination board. The examination board will assess whether the minor of your choice is at higher professional education (hbo) level and whether there is any unacceptable overlap with the compulsory curriculum of your own degree programme.

The examination boards have already completed this approval process for HU’s minors before the start of pre-enrolment, so you do not need to request permission yourself. You cannot enrol in Osiris for minors that are not permitted. Click the button below to view the list of not permitted minors by institute.

The Minor Market is held every year in the second week of March. Further information will be available at the end of November.

Some minors also organise extra information sessions. If this is the case, you will find further details at the top of the page for the minor you are interested in.

Every year, it becomes apparent that there is more interest than places available for a number of minors. To give everyone a fair chance of being enrolled on their preferred minor, a draw is held before the start of each academic year. In 2026, the draw took place on Thursday 9 April. The draw applies to all start dates (period AB (September–February), period CD (February–August) and the Lint variant (starting in September, covering the whole academic year)).

You can take part in the draw by submitting your top three minors in Osiris from the day after the Minor Market. The deadline for submitting your top three is one week later, at 23.59 on Friday. You can read here how you have to do this (set your preferred language in the top right corner of your profile).

• You have the whole week to submit your top 3, and you can only amend your top 3 during this period;
• The ‘first come, first served’ principle does not apply, which means that allocation to an HU minor is not based on the time at which you submit your top 3 choices. Places are allocated at random.
• Submitting just one minor does not increase your chances of being allocated to that specific minor.

Once you’ve compiled your top three in Osiris and checked if everything is correct (pay close attention to the period/block in which you want to take the minor), click Confirm Pre-enrolment. You will then see the message Your pre-registration is completed at the bottom of the screen. You will also receive a confirmation email of the pre-registration in your student email. This confirms that the pre-registration was successful. You can find your submitted top three in Osiris under Enrol > Show my enrolments > My enrolments. If you want to change something, you can do this in My enrolments. 

HU’s policy is to draw as many students as possible for the minor of their first preference. In recent academic years, this has always been successful for about 95% of the students. But it may happen that your first preference is so popular that you are not drawn for it. You should therefore also indicate your second and third preference so that you have a much better chance of being selected for a minor that suits you. If you have only entered one or two preferences and you are drawn out, you will have to enrol yourself in Osiris as of the Monday after the draw for a minor where there are still places left.

On the day of the draw, you will receive an email stating the name of the minor you have been allocated to, and you will be enrolled in it immediately. In Osiris, you can view your enrolment for the minor under Enrol > Show my enrolments > My enrolments. The minor contact person will provide you with further information, including the exact start date of the minor and what else is expected of you, no later than two weeks before the start of your minor.

Did you not participate in the draw for a minor in academic year 2026-2027?

In the following periods you can enrol in Osiris for a minor where there is still space. Full is full. The enrolment period is also the disenrolment period.

• Period AB and Lint: 13 April 2026 to 3 July 2026
• Period CD: 13 April 2026 to 4 December 2026

Please note: you can enrol for one minor for each academic year. If you are already enrolled for a minor for 2026-2027, you will first have to disenrol for that minor.

Do you want to enrol for a minor after the deadline? 

Take the following steps to arrange your enrolment:

1. Ask the minor contact person for permission. Send her/him an email in which you motivate why you want to participate in the minor course. You can find the name and emailadres from the minor contact person at the minor information page on this site under HU Minor courses.
   Remark for students International Business: they also have to ask their examboard for permission, besides asking the minor contact person. Asking permission goes via HUKAS by submitting a request.
2. Do you get permission (or do you already have this)? Send an email to stip@hu.nl. Include the following information in the email: your name, your student number and minor course title of your choice. Don’t forget to include the mail with permission from the minor contact person. Without this, you will not be enrolled!
   Remark for students International Business: they also need to add the permission from their exam board to this email.
3. The Study progress department will enrol you in the minor course. You can see your enrolment after a while in your study progress survey in Osiris. If you are not enrolled, you are not secured of a spot!

If on second thoughts, you aren’t happy with your choice of minor course, you can modify your enrolment until the deadline (AB and Lint: 3 July 2026, CD: 4 December 2026). First, cancel your current enrolment and then enrol in another minor course. But please note: it may be that minor course that you would rather take instead will not have any places available anymore by then!

Do you want to switch between minor courses after the deadline?

Switching minor courses is only possible up to and including the first week of education after the start of the minor course. Take the following steps:

1. Ask the minor contact person from the minor you want to switch to for permission. Send her/him/them an email in which you motivate why you want to participate in the minor course, and ask them if they want to give your permission per email. You can find the name and emailadres from the minor contact person on the minor information page at this site under HU Minor courses.
   Remark for students International Business: they also have to ask their examboard for permission, besides asking the minor contact person. Asking permission goes via HUKAS by submitting a request.
2. Do you get permission (or do you already have this)? Send an email to stip@hu.nl. Include the following information in the email: your name, your student number and the titles of the minor courses you want to switch between. Don’t forget to include the email with permission from the minor contact person. Without this, you will not be enrolled!
   Remark for students International Business: they also need to add the permission from their exam board to the email.
3. STIP will enrol you in the new minor course of your choice, and disenrol you from the minor course you don’t want to particpate in anymore. You can see your enrolment after a while in your study progress survey in Osiris. If you are not enrolled, you are not secured of a spot.
4. Send an email to the minor contact person from the minor course you are disenrolled for that you will not participate and why.

When you are enrolled for a minor course in Osiris, then you are also enrolled for the courses and first exam opportunities of the courses that belong to the minor. Do you need a resit? Then you have to enrol for the resit yourself in Osiris. This also applies if you can not complete the minor course in one academic year: you only enrol for the test component that you have to resit, and not for the entire course and/or minor course.

More information about (de)enrolment for exams you can find in HU Wegwijs.

Are you considering taking an additional minor at HU after completing your chosen profiling space? If so, please send an email to minors@hu.nl to register. You can do this from June 30th until two weeks before the start of the courses for minors starting in period AB, and from December 1st until two weeks before the start of the courses for minors starting in period CD. You will receive a decision via email on whether you can be admitted or not within two weeks after your registration. Be aware that the opportunities to take an additional minor are limited because only the HU range of minors is open for registration for an additional minor, and because the registrations of students who are taking their first minor take precedence over your registration.

The credits (ECs) you earn with the additional minor do not count towards the mandatory 240 ECs for the bachelor’s degree. It is not allowed to register yourself in OSIRIS for an additional minor. The credits (ECs) you earn with the additional minor do not count towards the mandatory 240 ECs for the bachelor’s degree.