Are you interested in joining the Master’s Spatial Engineering after completing your Bachelor’s degree? In a number of cases, you might be required to complete a pre-master programme first.
What is a pre-master programme?
A pre-master programme is a transfer programme for bachelor's students from a university of applied sciences (HBO) or a (Dutch) research university who want to continue with a master's at our University but do not have the required level of education.
The programme exists to help you make up for any deficiencies between the Spatial Engineering's entry requirements and your previous university bachelor’s or Dutch HBO programme.
Direct access for UT Bachelor's
Students who successfully completed their Bachelor's at the University of Twente and followed the minor GIS or the minor Adapting to Climate Change with Spatial Engineering (mandatory) and the minor Remote Sensing (optional), have direct and unconditional access to the Master’s Spatial Engineering.
Full-time, one-semester programme
This online pre-master programme, or transfer minor, dominantly aims at preparing you for the Master's Spatial Engineering. Upon successful completion of the programme, you have direct and unconditional access to this Master’s Spatial Engineering. It is a full-time online study programme of one semester with four courses:
Challenge: climate adaptation (5 credits) Upon completion of the climate adaption challenge, you can:
- identify and describe gaps in your knowledge
- plan, execute and reflect on the learning process needed to bridge the gap
- integrate knowledge in formulating an actionable challenge using the challenge-based learning approach.
Explore key areas: an exciting opportunity
The climate-related challenge in the minor course of spatial engineering is your chance to dive into three key areas: technical engineering, spatial planning, governance, and spatial information science. In this minor, you’ll apply your knowledge from one of these core areas to tackle a real-world case and gear up for the master’s programme in Spatial Engineering.
Valencia: a city with bold ambitions
This challenge focuses on the Municipality of Valencia, a city grappling with climate-related challenges like extreme heat, drought, water shortages, and heavy rainfall. Valencia just earned the title of EU Green Capital and aims to become the most sustainable and climate-resilient city in Europe.
Be part of the solution: creating adaptation strategies
As part of this challenge, you’ll help Valencia develop and implement adaptation strategies. You’ll join a "technical support" programme, offering tailored assistance to help this vibrant Spanish city navigate its climate challenges.
Make a real impact: your moment to shine
We want you to deliver an 'actionable challenge statement' using everything you've learned and what you already know. This is your chance to make a real impact, apply your skills to real-world problems, and be part of an inspiring journey towards sustainability. Plus, this minor is designed to seamlessly prepare you for the master’s programme in Spatial Engineering. Join us in this exciting challenge and help shape the future of Valencia
Core knowledge (12.5 credits) The pre-master will provide you with core knowledge in:
- Spatial Information science
- Spatial Planning and Governance
- Technical Engineering as in modelling the processes in system Earth.
Academic Research Skills (7.5 credits) Upon completion of the academic research skills course you are able to:
- review scientific literature
- plan and design scientific research
- systematically process the results of scientific research
- write scientific documents (literature review/research proposal/paper)
- orally present and discuss scientific research
- reflect upon the scientific research of peers.
Basis statistics (5 credits) Upon completion of the basic statistics course you are able to:
- Probability density functions and concepts of correlations and regressions
- Describe parameter uncertainty like variability, RMSE and R2
- To be determined.
Starting date
You can enrol in the (online) pre-master in September.
Tuition fee
Admission
Motivation and capacity
It is good to know that this pre-master aims to attract students from universities of applied sciences (HBO) who have adequate motivation and capacities to complete an English-taught degree programme at university level.
Mathematics and English
At the University of Twente, we assume that your knowledge of mathematics and English is at VWO level. In any case, you need 120 credits from your current related bachelor’s before starting this pre-master's.
Is my programme sufficiently related?
In order to determine whether your current study is sufficiently related to Spatial Engineering, please check the Transfer Matrix.
Please note
If your current bachelor's involves a non-related programme, your application will be judged on the basis of 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.
How to enrol
For Dutch HBO students
How you apply depends on whether you take the Pre-Master's during or after your HBO bachelor.
If you take (part of) the Pre-Master's during your bachelor's, you apply for a transfer minor via the website Kiesopmaat.
If you decide to do the Pre-Master's after completing your bachelor's, you apply via the website Studielink (apply for M Spatial Engineering chroho 60962). We will alter this to a Pre-Master's registration. Once you are admitted, you will automatically get access to the Pre-Master's.
FOR STUDENTS OF University of Twente or other DUTCH UNIVERSITIES
You don't need to sign up for the Pre-Master's itself. You apply by signing up for this Master's via the website Studielink (apply for M Spatial Engineering chroho 60962). We will alter this to a pre-master's registration. Once you are admitted, you will automatically get access to the Pre-Master's.
For student of the University of Twente
Have you successfully completed your Bachelor's at the University of Twente and followed the minor GIS or the minor Adating to Climate Change with Spatial Engineering (mandatory) and the minor Remote Sensing (optional)? Then you have direct and unconditional access to the Master’s Spatial Engineering!
