Welcome to the Major-minor website!

The information on this website is primarily for Bachelor students inside and outside the University of Twente who wish (or need) to take a minor.

However, all other interested parties are more than welcome to learn about the contents of this site.

The world of minors at the University of Twente is a dynamic world. This website will be updated regularly. Please refer to this page regularly to monitor progress.


*New on this site* (date format is dd-mm-yyyy):

01-02-2010:	Please note that the registration on minors will this year be organised differently compared to previous years.
01-02-2010:	The second semester has started. From now on, this website will focus on the academic year 2010-2011.
23-04-2009:	Some pictures of the minor information market 2009 are available.
15-05-2008:	Translation of all relevant pages of this website into English has been completed.

Please note: only major changes on this site are announced in this table!

Major-minor is an educational concept of the University of Twente. The basic idea is that all Bachelor students, by the end of their Bachelor's study, take a minor in a (preferably significantly) different discipline than their own.

The main intention of this concept is to offer all bachelor students a platform for the (further) development of their academic skills *. Some of these skills might remain underdeveloped in their own discipline, like discovering the (social) relevance and context of their own discipline, learning to think 'out-of-the-box', learning to communicate with professionals with different backgrounds, obtaining a broad(er) view on the total field of science, exploring a completely new field of specialisation, etc.

Therefore, it is relatively irrelevant in which discipline the minor is taken, as long as it is (far) outside the student's main discipline. So, feel free to choose the minor you like most!

That is the power of Major-minor: taking the minor which appeals to you most, and developing yourself towards academic professionalism.

Good luck and enjoy your minor!

* This publication "Criteria for Academic Bachelor's and Master's Curricula is a joint edition of 3TU, the collaboration between the three technical universities in The Netherlands.