Credential evaluation

You will automatically receive an invitation by mail from the Central Student Admissions office (CSA) to submit copies of your diplomas and previous education for evaluation. If you would like to start collecting the documents already this is what you will need, certified copies of:

• ID, Passport or residence permit that is valid at the date the programme you are applying for starts (no drivers license);
• Diplomas of your previous education with;
• Transcripts (Grade Lists);
• Sworn translations of all the above documents if not in Dutch, English, French, Afrikaans, Spanish or German;
• Diploma Assessments of other institutions, e.g. from the Nuffic, the Colo, International Diploma Assessment (idW) or other educational institutes;
• Documents to verify your level in English or Dutch depending on the degree programme of your choice.

Additional documents:

• for Chinese diplomas include NESO-certificate;
• for American and Canadian diplomas: original Official Transcript (will be made available by your school at your request). Send to:
  CSA-HvA
  Weesperzijde 190
  1097 DZ Amsterdam
  The Netherlands;
• for students from West-Africa with a certificate of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC): scratch card with login data for www.waecdirect.org for verification purposes.

You will automatically receive an invitation by mail from the Central Student Admissions office (CSA) to submit copies of your diplomas and previous education for evaluation. If you would like to start collecting the documents already this is what you will need, certified copies of:

• ID, Passport or residence permit that is valid at the date the programme you are applying for starts. (no drivers license)

• If you are currently studying to obtain your degree send the subject/result list of the current and two previous study years;
• Sworn translation of the aforementioned documents in Dutch, English, French, Afrikaans, Spanish or German, if the original documents are not written in one of these languages;
• Declaration from your institution what the title of your diploma/degree will be, on which date you will obtain the diploma and if applicable that your study program has been followed completely in English;
• Documents to verify your level in English or Dutch depending on the degree programme of your choice.

Additional documents needed:

• for American and Canadian diplomas: original Official Transcript (will be made available by your school at your request) send to CSA-HvA, weesperzijde 190, 1097 DZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

1. Your credentials are equivalent to at least the Dutch havo/mbo-4 level, and your subjects match the profile requirements for the programme of your choice.
2. You demonstrate the level of your Dutch language skills by one of these options:

• Sitting the State Exam Dutch as a Second Language, programme 2 (all four parts of NT2-II). The AUAS offers candidates who need to learn Dutch a preparatory year to prepare them for the State Exam Dutch as a Second Language.
• The Certificate Dutch as a Foreign Language, of either the Language Proficiency for Higher Education Profile or the Academic Language Proficiency Profile.

1. Your credentials and subjects match the profile requirements for the programme of your choice.
2. You will need to meet the programme requirements regarding the level of your English language skills. These requirements can be found on the website of the programme itself.
3. Language test could be certificates from eihter IELTS, TOEFL or Cambridge Advanced English.

Information on admission requirements.  

• Information on requirements for degree programmes
• Information on applying for preparatory courses for foreign students

1. The level of your education will be compared to Dutch equivalencies.
2. The documents themselves will be checked for security features.
3. The additional subjects for your chosen programme and language requirements will be evaluated.

It might be necessary to ask advice from the Nuffic, an organization that supports all higher educational institutes in the Netherlands with the evaluation of foreign diplomas.

For an indication about your credentials compared to Dutch diplomas you can look at the Nuffic website. Note: this is a shortlist and just an indication, diplomas are still evaluated individually and your grades and subjects could influence the final evaluation results.

Besides the Nuffic it could be possible that we contact the organisations or institutions where you obtained the documents you submitted for verification.

See for the AUAS application and admission procedure the flowchart of the admission and selection process.

If you do not meet the language requirements or if you have not taken the correct subjects to match the profile requirements, you will receive a provisional acceptance with an advice on how to meet these requirements. This could mean you need to take a language course or a language test or that you need to take extra subjects to meet the requirements. If you have not completed your current education you may receive a provisional acceptance, pending the evaluation of your finished education and final results and diploma.

If you receive a rejection and you do not agree with the decision made by the Examination Board you are advised to contact the Central Student Admissions office first. You can receive more detailed information on the reason(s) for the rejection csa@hva.nl.