Going abroad after your studies
Your options
The insights gained from looking back at your study career will help you further in your orientation process. Dare to take your talents, interests and motivations as a starting point for your choice. It is quite understandable that after your studies you feel the need to take a break (for a while). But what exactly can you do when you take a break?
There are a few reasons why travelling during or after your studies is a good idea:
- You get to know yourself well (as cliché as it may sound). In daily life, you might spend little time with yourself. During travels, you will encounter unexpected situations and find that you handle them just fine.
- This is the ideal moment to go travelling. You probably have relatively few fixed expenses or a job with a set number of vacation days. How often will such a situation present itself?
- You gain life experience rapidly. You'll see that you become flexible and unafraid of being thrown into the deep.
- You meet new people and cultures. At home, you probably have people around you who mostly face similar choices as you and do roughly the same things. It's super valuable to meet people who organise their lives differently.
- Back to basics. Compared to other cultures, we lead a rushed life on autopilot in the Netherlands. By travelling, your life becomes simple again, allowing you to enjoy the little things more.
Look at the range of master's programmes offered abroad. On mastersportal.com you can find masters programmes at educational institutions around the world. Look carefully at costs, length of study and entry requirements.
Scholarships
For graduates of Dutch universities of applied sciences who want to continue studying or doing research abroad, there are the vsbfonds scholarship and the Prince Bernard Culture Fund scholarship.
More about the VSBfonds scholarship More about the Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds scholarship