Avans University of Applied Science

Honestly speaking, courses from Year 1 to 2 were decent in a sense. The learning curve might be significant during the same period in case you have basic knowledge or no knowledge at all with regard to business/economics/finance or related. After the 2nd year, the whole thing becomes a solid joke. Course organization becomes hilarious, some teachers are visibly there only due to their monthly paycheck, courses being redisigned during the course period leading to a mass chaos, changes in evaluation in the last moment, etc. Knowledge in the last two phases becomes deficit as all you work on is nonsense projects of imaginary companies, barely any information is given for these companies, you are not able to contact the same and so on. Obviously this creates a big gap between whats possible and what is not, making the entire piece one would write irrelevant and "IMAGINARY". One would not learn any technological advancements used in business nowadays as the education you would get is most probably outdated by 20 years. The only course you would get is excel, and to such extent, that you would only know the basic of it. At the final stage all you write is essays, reflections and other non-valuable papers. If you are being honest that you did not get much out of the certain course, then you would get a fail on your reflection. HOW CAN YOU GET A FAIL ON YOUR OWN REFLECTION?!?! Obviously, lying comes in place and tadummm, "PASS". 
At the end of your education you would have basic business knowledge and if you succeed to get to find an internship your supervisor would be asking you "Did you study in a cave?". Yes, you got it right. Oh

Not to mention that most of the positive reviews on the web are paid and are written from the promo students who work part-time as such for AVANS. 

Overall the entire course is not worth it ! Better spend 8k on Udemy courses, im sure you'd be better off. Not to mention the wasted time...

Avans was know as Noordbrabant Technisch School before it changed to its current name. Before and after the name change, it was embroiled in frauds under multiple occasions. One of the high-profile ones was know as "HBO fraude" cerca 2010 , well reported by the national media, while several other fraud cases were downplayed by the ministry of education, "for political reasons" I was told. These frauds come in different forms, but mostly centered around conning the generous Dutch government, while international and local students are their lateral damage.  Freiuniversitat of Amsterdam even wrote a paper about it! Granted Avans sometimes recruit responsible teachers and administrative staff, unfortunately they don't normally last for more than 2 years.

Avans has a professional PR team on payroll to salvage its image, however they can't fool everyone especially the locals who are in the known.

Den Bosch or Breda are totally fine to live in. Just don't go study at Avans! There are much darker stories regarding this school I won't reiterate them here, just ask around and be ready to be shocked.  Be wise. Linkedin, cold calls or just visits to locals will save you many regrets!

The school has high quality education programs for all kinds of interests.

The school has high quality education programs for all kinds of interests.

broad study with f.e. marketing, logistics,finance etc.