Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences is a large vocational university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The AUAS offers bachelor programmes, and a number of master programmes. It is also possible for students from the AUAS's international partner institutes to study at the AUAS as exchange students.
The AUAS offers eighty courses of study, spread across locations in Amsterdam.
The university maintains ties with the University of Amsterdam. The 2,300 employees of the AUAS serve more than 40,000 students.
An important way of learning for AUAS students is via work placements. All students have a practical work period in order to get on-the-job experience in their chosen field of study. Such work placements can be at a company or organisation in the Netherlands or abroad. Most of the teaching at the AUAS is organised in modules, which are given in four periods of ten weeks, or in two semesters.
Training
The AUAS has 90 college programmes divided and grouped into seven 'domains'.23 of these programmes are accredited by the NVAO. Besides full-time programmes, the college also has some part-time courses.
Programs classified into Domain:
Exercise, Sports and Nutrition
- Physical education
- Sport, Management and Entrepreneurship
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Accountancy
- Business Informatics
- Commercial Economy
- Business Economics for Future Entrepreneurs
- Communications
- Financial Services Management
- Fiscal Economics
- Human Resource Management
- International Management
- International Business and Languages
- International Business and Management Studies
- Logistics and Economics
- Management, Economics and Law
- Management in Health Care and Social Services
- Small Business and Retail Management
- Sports Marketing
- Trade Management Asia
- Nursing
- Social Psychiatric Nurse
- Occupational Therapy
- Physiotherapy
- Exercise
- European Master of Science in Occupational Therapy
- European School of Physiotherapy
- Master Evidence Based Practice
- Social Work and Community Services
- Cultural and Social Education
- Social Educational Care Work
- Legal Studies
- Social Legal Studies
- Applied Psychology
- Public Management
- Fashion & Branding
- Fashion and Design
- Fashion & Management
- Computer Engineering
- Software Engineering
- Cyber Security
- Business IT & Management
- Game Development
- Communication & Multimedia Design
- Media, Information and Communication
- Digital Design
- Higher Education Executive training
- PABO
- Pedagogy
- International Degree in English and Education
- Geography Teacher
- Biology Teacher
- Architecture Teacher
- Building Technology Teacher
- Consumption Technology Teacher
- Economics Teacher
- Electrical teacher
- English teacher
- French Teacher
- History Teacher
- Teacher Health and Welfare
- Teacher Grafimedia
- Social Studies Teacher
- Teacher Mechanical Engineering
- Automotive Technology Teacher
- Teacher Physics-Chemistry
- Dutch teacher
- Teacher Education
- Teacher Technology
- Mechanical Teacher
- Mathematics Teacher
- Master Teacher of Economics
- Master English Teacher
- French Master Teacher
- Master Teacher History
- Dutch Master Teacher
- Master Mathematics Teacher
- Primary Teacher
- Aviation Studies
- Aviation Engineering
- Aviation Logistics
- Business Mathematics
- Engineering
- Structural Business
- Business Logistics
- Civil Engineering
- E-technology
- Engineering, Design and Innovation
- Forensic Investigation
- Human Logistics
- Maritime Officer
- Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology
- Product Design
- Industrial Engineering
Ranking
The HBO Selection Guide gives annual independent judgements on college rankings in The Netherlands.Student union
AUAS students are represented by .Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI)
The is part of the Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industry at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.Ranking
In 2025 ranked AMFI as the 44th Best Fashion School in the World.Criticism
On the 30th of May 2023 the Inspectorate of Education published the results of their investigation into social safety at the fashion institute.This investigation was instigated when in 2021 former and current students complained en masse that the learning environment at AMFI was unsafe. Jan Willem van Roodenberg of the Education Inspectorate stated to local media: "The severity, the extent of the pattern of a completely unsafe situation that is emerging: as an inspector of higher education, I am extremely shocked by this." In the same year, ASVA Student Union demanded the resignation of the Director and the Head of Design. This was followed by parliamentary questions brought forward by to the then Minister for Education, Culture and Science Ingrid van Engelshoven.
Amsterdam School of International Business (AMSIB)
The is part of the Faculty of Business and Economics (Dutch: Faculteit Business en Economie) at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.In 2023 the school had 2,800 students and 150 employees.