DUO: Third of first-years at Dutch universities are international students

Posted date: 27 Mar 2023

Recent data published by the official Dutch education agency DUO has revealed that, for the 2022 / 2023 academic year, around a third of first-year bachelor and master students at universities in the Netherlands were from abroad.

Influx of internationals in the Netherlands appears to be slowing
Over the past several years, higher education in the Netherlands has seen the number of international students rise significantly. Now, approximately a third of first years are international students.

According to DUO, in the autumn of 2022 over 85.000 international students were enrolled to start a course at a Dutch university or college, marking a 7,3 percent increase compared to a year earlier. Looking back over the past 20 years, the increase is even more significant: in the 2005 / 2006 academic year, only 12.500 first-year students in the Netherlands were international.

While the number of international students continues to rise, the year-on-year increase does appear to be tapering off: Trouw notes that in previous years, DUO recorded growth rates of between 12 and 15 percent. The figures reported by DUO are also lower than those reported by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) last year.

Reference Link: https://www.iamexpat.nl/education/education-news/duo-third-first-years-dutch-universities-are-international-students

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