Avans University of Applied Science

good quality education, However large quality difference between lecturers

easy to understand topics and logic lectures.

The international experience you receive with Avans is just enormous, you can meet people from all around the world, and that way you make connections. Furthermore, the teachers are usually professionals in their own field, which decided to teach and that way they can bring a lot to the table with what they have experienced. The atmosphere in the classroom is mostly non-formal and there is non-existent power-distance between you and the teacher. As for the projects which you do, every one of them is connected to the subjects you study and has a real-world implementation.

Overall I think it could be better however it is okay.

I graduated there in 2010. Terrible school overall, envy friends who simply decided to leave after attending it for less than one semester (lots of them). Its problems are well known among Dutch students, ask any of them at a party( especially after a beer) and they will spill the beans.  Some of them still go there as a cheap and easy getaway to do their MScs later(cost about 980 euro per year). About 10-15 %of them show up for classes.

Saving grace is majority of its facalty is friendly. On the other hand some of its students called some the teachers "wissen (witches)" within their hearing range as they were leaving or entering the room. 


Wrote a review for it on Google map( we laughed about its many generic 5 star reviews that can be recycled for rating a park or a restaurant) 😁 :
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A very intelligent guy I know from Eindhoven who is fluent in 7 languages went to Avans Den Bosch for 4 weeks in 2011, then he simply stopped going, calling its HBO (bachelor) program "Master degree in things going wrong and crisis management" 😅 . He also discovered that Avans Den Bosch received far above average number of complaints per number of students, some of them outrageous, even far worse experience than I had. The Dutch education ministry won't publish them, but have to provide info regarding them upon request according to Dutch laws. He ended up in TUe as he should have.

A student from China also told me also he planned on ditching Avans before finishing his first month when I returned to students apartment to collect some mails back in 2009.