ARE YOU AN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT AND DO YOU WANT TO OBTAIN YOUR MASTER'S AT UT? FIND OUT IF YOU ARE ADMISSIBLE FIRST!
Currently, you possess an international bachelor's degree and have decided to sign up for the Master's in Spatial Engineering. First, find out if you are admissible and fill in the mandatory online eligibility check (e-check), before applying for this Master's.
Admission requirements for Spatial Engineering
Required diplomas or knowledge Your application will be judged based on an individual educational curriculum/portfolio and motivation letter. The admission board will review your application and decide, based on the bachelor’s education (technical focus), if you are directly admissible, admissible under conditions (pre-masters) or not admissible.
Applicants for the Master's in Spatial Engineering should have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification from a recognized university or accredited academic institution in a discipline related to the Master's. If you hold a bachelor’s degree in one of the following fields you can be directly admissible:
- Civil engineering
- Geo-engineering
- Geographical sciences
- Earth sciences
- Water and agriculture sciences
- Geographical information systems
Also, students with broad engineering bachelor's (such as Advanced Technology or Creative Technology), students from urban (spatial) planning and governance and (technical) University Colleges and students with a relevant bachelor’s degree from a university of applied sciences are invited to put in their application.
Direct access for UT Bachelor's
Students who successfully completed their Bachelor's at the University of Twente and followed at least one of the following minors have direct and unconditional access to the Master’s Spatial Engineering
- Earth Observation
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Adapting to Climate Change with Spatial Engineering.
Required knowledge
To allow students to meet the final qualifications of the Spatial Engineering programme, incoming students must have knowledge at the bachelor's level of a research university in at least three of the following topics:
- Water, weather and climate (hydrology, meteorology)
- Earth sciences (geo-engineering, geology, earth surface processes)
- Civil engineering (infrastructure, building, hydraulics, hard interventions)
- Spatial planning and governance (urban and or rural environments)
- Spatial information and visualization (GIS, Remote Sensing)
- Software engineering.
Success in your studies requires a high level of English proficiency. Therefore, prospective master's students with an international degree must meet the English language requirement. The application will only be processed when the English language requirements have been met, the University of Twente does not offer possible conditional admission if the English language requirement is not met.
If you take the test after the application deadline, or you do not have the official English certificate before the application deadline, the University of Twente will not process your application. Therefore, make sure to do the test in advance, as it will take time for you to get the official certificate.
As proof that you meet this requirement, you will be asked in the application procedure to upload one of the requested language certificates below. Only these internationally recognised test results will be accepted.
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- TOEFL iBT (internet-based) certificate, not older than two years, with an overall score of 90, and a minimum score on each section of at least 21. Please note that the University of Twente does not accept the MyBest scores of the TOEFL test. By exception, you can also take the TOEFL iBT (Special) Home Edition test (only valid for the September 2024 and February 2025 intake). This is only the case when you cannot use a regular language test as listed in this table because the onsite language test centre is closed because of unsafe situations in your country.
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- Cambridge C1 Advanced, formerly known as; Cambridge English Advanced (CAE) from 2015 onwards (when the subscores were introduced). Obtained an A, B or C grade, with an overall score of at least 176 and a minimum score on each section of at least 169. The Cambridge online test is not accepted by the University of Twente.
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- Cambridge C2 Proficiency, formerly known as; Cambridge English Proficiency (CPE) from 2015 onwards (when the subscores were introduced). Obtained an A, B or C grade, with an overall score of at least 176 and a minimum score on each section of at least 169. The Cambridge online test is not accepted by the University of Twente.
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KEEP IN MIND
- During your application, the University of Twente will verify your proof of English proficiency. The IELTS (academic) and TOEFL iBT are only accepted once it is not older than two years. Since your application will not be immediately reviewed, please kindly make sure that your English certificate is still valid for at least one month after you have submitted your application to Osiris. Please note: In some cases, it might take longer before your application is reviewed.
- The language requirements when applying for a scholarship may be different because scholarship providers may have different requirements.
- If you are a native English speaker and/or you have (fully) completed your education in English, you also have to meet the specific English language requirement.
English language exemptions
You might be exempted from providing UT with proof of English proficiency. Check if you are exempted via the button below.
- Copy of diploma
- Transcript of records
- Motivation letter (max 1,000 words)
- Resume (Europass)
Do the e-check
Find out if you are admissible within five minutes with our eligibility check! This e-check is created for upcoming master's students with an international bachelor's degree to verify that they meet the specific admission requirements for this Master's.
For students with an international degree, it is mandatory to complete the e-check. After you have submitted your e-check you will receive an e-mail with a code. You need to fill in this code within your application later on.
Please note that it gives you an indication of your eligibility, it is not the official admission decision and no rights can be derived from the outcome of the eligibility check. Also, when assessing your eligibility, we do not (exclusively) consider your CGPA score. If the e-check results are negative due to an insufficient CGPA, you can still apply for Spatial Engineering! Ultimately, the official admission decision follows once you have applied for this Master’s.
Start your application
After finishing the first part of the application process, the eligibility check, you receive further instructions by e-mail. You may be admitted to this Master's on the condition that you still have to pass. Therefore, know that you can apply even if you have not yet obtained your diploma.
To apply, you need to fill in the code you received via e-mail after submitting the mandatory e-check.
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