UT and Navitas launch a bridging year for Beethoven students

The new bridging programme, officially named ‘Twente International College – Innovation & Technology’, forms part of ‘Project Beethoven’. A key element of this plan to strengthen the Dutch chip technology sector is to train sufficient technical talent.

Anyone who does not yet have the appropriate prior qualifications for a technical UT bachelor’s degree programme can enrol in this new bridging programme. By increasing the intake into the (technical) bachelor’s programmes, the UT hopes to improve progression to a suitable master’s programme within the university – and thereby prepare this talent for the chip technology industry. The programme will run for as long as ‘Project Beethoven’ is in operation: until 2030.

Navitas, the provider of the Twente Pathway College bridging year, is delivering this programme in collaboration with the university. However, according to the initiators, this new bridging year does not represent a relaunch or continuation of Twente Pathway College. That programme will be discontinued from next year, after universities decided, under pressure from the ‘Balanced Internationalisation Act’, to stop offering bridging years for their own sake.

The technical degree programmes

Students enrolled on the Twente International College programme can progress to the following nine bachelor’s degree programmes at the UT: Applied Mathematics, Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Design Engineering, Industrial Engineering & Management, Mechanical Engineering, Technical Computer Science, Advanced Technology and Chemical Science & Engineering.

Source: UToday
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