The Hague University of Applied Sciences — Attraction in The Hague

This is the most disorganized school I know. Everything changes all the time, frequent mistakes on the part of the university, for which they almost never apologize. Students are to blame for any oversight of the university, out of 400 people only 45 passed the exam - students are to blame, as they did not prepare. The system for registering for exams does not work properly - students are also to blame. The university made a lot of mistakes in the preparation of tasks for the exam - students are also to blame. In such a situation, the university says that you can retake the exam, without any excuses or anything. But it seems like the university wants to respect everyone so much, but why should students experience stress again taking the exam, because of the university's mistake. Teachers are generally a separate issue, there is a feeling that none of the teachers has a pedagogical background. It is quite normal for some teachers to humiliate students, half of the teachers do not know how to attract the attention of students during a lecture and lead a lesson in some kind of their own world, and not with students. The priority of lessons with mandatory attendance is as strange as possible, preference is given to subjects that have nothing to do with the future profession. For example, the university believes that I, as a student, must attend an event where I will make a house from marshmallows and spaghetti , instead of a lecture on economics. To anyone who enters the Faculty of BFM and plans to open their own business or company in the future, I strongly advise you not to, as the program teaches you to be an employee, not an employer. If you come here hoping to be taught, then it is unlikely to succeed. Starting from the first year, you are given insanely difficult reading material, and when you ask questions to teachers, they cannot always explain what is written in the book themselves. And another important problem of the university is that they are trying to teach you how to memorize the material, and not...

new review: save yourself time and energy and don't come to this "university" which is not even that, this is more of a college. I don't even know what to start with. perhaps the organization, which is completely garbage, in my 3 years of studies the only things I get informed of are my deadlines, everything else I have to do myself, check the course, check the coordinator, email the coordinator, wait one week for a reply and just then I can start working on whatever I have to do. on the same note, the courses are incredibly bad, you get courses with over 7 weeks of lectures but no assignments in the course of that. there is nothing to keep you in touch or interested to the course. also the course platform is in absolute misery and half the teachers don't even know how to use it themselves. teachers, all the reviews here are about the bad teachers but that's not even the worst thing, since at the end of the the day you gotta do personal studying anyway, so THANK GOD they at least tell you what learning materials you need. about the materials nothing important is provided by the university, just some dumb pp slides which even those are made without attention because they advise you to come on campus for lectures that are conducted by some online free course teachers that have no ideea how to interact or talk to students. all this university does is to advertise the international part of the studies and to put emphasis on how many different kinds of activities and people you are going to go through during your studies, but all you are going to go through is pain misery despair depression anxiety and you will probably develop schizophrenia from all the hours spent talking to yourself in those emails I talked about in the start. SO PLEASE FOR YOUR OWN SAKE JUST GO TO ANOTHER UNIVERSITY EVEN IF YOU ALREADY FINISHED ONE YEAR THE DEGREE IS NOT EVEN WORTH IT...

The European Studies program is a total mess. Teachers are often rude and impersonal. Management of the courses is shocking, we were told in the first year that they were sorry for the litany of mistakes as if it was a difficult year (exam results being revoked and had to be retaken, exams with spelling errors and formatting issues, unclear instructions on due dates, poor direction on assignments, no feedback for work, exam results taking months or not coming at all, teachers not replying to emails or being aggressive etc.), but in the following year its clear these issues were not a one off or because of corona, the management of the course is just incompetent. Exam scores were also quite low for students, but blame was frequently put on students being lazy or not following classes, not the fact that the teach or module books were inadequate.

Additionally there were multiple instances in my first year: a teacher had a completely unhinged rant at my class were she spent an hour berating students as if they were children for her own failings, and other instances of blatant discrimination.. Upon complaining formally I was told to wait for a reply, but they never came. From talking to colleagues from a variety of countries, many agree that the standard of education is far below their home countries and what you would expect from the Netherlands.

My mental health has took a massive hit from studying here. Students are overworked and extremely stressed, students drop out because of mental health issues but there is little concern from the university. I also believe that many of the teachers try their best, but are overworked and not particularly happy with the situation either, but it doesn't seem it...