Frequently Asked Questions

We begin every school year with an average of 75 to 100 first-year students.

About 75 % of first-year students continue on to the second year without any hold-ups. And about 70 % of the students who successfully completed their first year, receive a Bachelor's diploma after 4 years.

The Civil Engineering programme at Twente stands out because of its combination of engineering and management, its project-based education, its small-scale and its focus on application. You can read more about that here.

The main difference between Civil Engineering at a university and at ‘HBO’ is the academic level. At a research university, the programme is more abstract and the teaching pace is higher. At a research university you learn to reflect on the solutions you have found, by answering questions like: Why is this the best solution? Is there an alternative? Can it be improved? Can it be more efficient? Here the focus is on coming up with your own solution, whereas ‘HBO’ programmes centre more on carrying out an existing solution.

There are about 15-25 % of girls in this study programme. We would love to welcome more girls in the programme.

You can always take a look at the website for current students – the so-called training site. If you have a specific question about a subject, please contact us. We will be happy to help!

Civil Engineering is a technical programme. This means that mathematics plays an important role in all subjects.

All textbooks are in English.

On top of tuition and textbooks, there are other costs if you want to study. For example, you will need a laptop. You might also have travel expenses, and if you don't live at home then you need to think about the cost of rent and food. You can get an estimate of what living in Enschede costs on this website. And you can read more here about living on campus.

The way we teach at the university makes a laptop indispensable. For Civil Engineering a standard laptop will suffice. However, in order to guarantee compatibility between the software we use in this programme and your laptop, we advise you to use a laptop that runs on Microsoft Windows. We have an attractive deal for students who purchase their laptop via the University of Twente. Read more here.

As of the 2017-2018 academic year, this programme will be completely English-taught. So having a good knowledge of English is an advantage when you start studying.

Of course! At the university, you are expected to be independent and take care of things yourself. But not everything is self-explanatory, especially when you are starting out. You can always go to a tutor if you have questions.

Yes, that is possible. There are various ways of giving your studies an international flavour. About 10 % of our Civil Engineering students choose to do their graduation assignment abroad and more and more students (about 30 % so far) choose to complete their electives abroad. For example, you can do some subjects at a foreign university. This will usually be a university with which our Civil Engineering programme has a student exchange agreement.

Visit the FAQ's on the website of Student Services.