Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

Deadlines

1. 1 December 2026*

   Create your Studielink account
   Your own plan

   Details

   Not an official deadline. With a Dutch address you log in with DigiD, which the government says takes about five days. Without one you upload a scan or photo of your passport or EU identity card and Studielink verifies it automatically. Either way, do it well before 15 January.

   Source

2. 15 January 2027, 23:59 CET

   Deadline for numerus fixus (selection) programmes
   Hard deadline

   Details

   Two numerus fixus programmes at most; medicine, dentistry, dental hygiene and physiotherapy allow one application per programme, so not medicine at two universities. Missing this does not cost you the year, but it does cost you every selective programme in it.

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3. 1 May 2027, 23:59*

   Last day to keep your right to a place (programmes without selection)
   Equal consideration

   Details

   Apply by 1 May and you are entitled to admission to a non-selective programme you qualify for. The government says a first application after 1 May may be refused - the programme can still take you, but does not have to. Some institutions set earlier dates of their own, and theirs is the one that binds.

   Studielink closes at 23:59 on 1 May. The government’s rule is what makes it an equal-consideration date: apply by 1 May and you are entitled to admission to a programme you qualify for ("Aanmelding tot en met 1 mei betekent ook recht op toelating"); a first application after 1 May "kan door de opleiding geweigerd worden" - the programme may still take you, but it does not have to. Some programmes close earlier for capacity or matching reasons, and the programme’s own date is the one that binds.

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* Last year’s date, not yet confirmed.

Every date in the Netherlands