On our way to the Bachelor College

November 2011

In brief

• All Bachelor programs in one Bachelor College• As of September 2012• Bachelor range more attractive, challenging and

feasible• For real scientists and more humanities-focused,

general scientists

Reasons

1. Intake problem

2. Graduation rate problem

3. Demand from society

1. Intake problem

• TU/e attracts specifically one type of science focused Bachelor student (66%).

• Demographic shifts lead to a decline in Bachelor intake from Limburg and Brabant.

• TU/e attracts too few high-school pupils from other regions.

• TU/e attracts too few female Bachelor students.

2. Graduation rate problem

• 40% of the Bachelors drop out in the first year• 10% of the Bachelors drop out in the 2nd and 3rd

years• 35% of the remaining Bachelors gain their degree

within 4 years• Result: an average of 20% of the Bachelors gain

their degree within 4 years

3. Demand from society

• Increasing need for engineers.• Engineers able to create links between engineering

and non-engineering disciplines and humanities and social sciences.

• Need for entrepreneurial engineers able to transform that technological knowledge into societally and economically attractive innovations.

Intake goals of the Bachelor College

• 50% more Bachelor students• Including 35% more female Bachelor students*• This implies:

 

*excluding transfer university and higher vocational students

2009-2010 2020

Intake 1087 1700

Female share 18% 24%

Graduation goals of the Bachelor College

• Less dropout in the first year. • 70% of re-enrollers, after the first year, gain their

degree within four years.• Higher Master program intake.• More Master graduates each year.

• To 1250 MSc’s in 2020

• Greater variation in MSc graduation profiles

Societal demand goals of the Bachelor College

• Growth boost for economic top sectors and Brainport Eindhoven.

• Towards engineer of the future.

Engineer of the future

• Multidisciplinary• Diversity of talents• ‘Unique selling points’ • Highly analytical, problem-solving and innovative • Link between engineering and society• Working in a globalizing world• Lifelong learning

Solving intake problem

• Include subjects that place their own discipline in a user, societal and/or entrepreneurial perspective   

• More elective freedom: deepening in own discipline or broadening

• Coaching from moment of intake• New majors• Attract extra students by extending catchment area

to the whole of the Netherlands and bordering countries

Solution to graduation rate problem

• Study program components (subjects and projects) of five credits or multiples thereof

• Maximum of three parallel study program components per quartile

• More student activating forms of work

• Possibility to test within study program components

• Fewer re-sits

• Compensation

• Coaching of study progress and choices

• Final exam is max. 70% of final grade

Study structure of TU/e Bachelor College

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Major (90 credits)Electives (45 credits)

Basic subjects (30 credits)

USE: User, Society and Enterprise (15 credits)

Major (90 credits)

• Under CROHO registration one study program may contain more than one major, each of which prepares for a separate Master or Master track.

• A Major is the door in any case to (one of) the Master(s) of the respective department.

Electives

• Departments make proposals for coherent elective packages.

• A coherent package contains max.15 credits. • There is also room for individual subjects worth 5

credits.• Coherent packages are also available for students

with other majors.

Basic subjects (30 credits)

• Mathematics• Physics (knowledge and methodology)• Engineering• Design• Humanities & Social Sciences• Professional skills (communication, cooperation,

reflection)

USE

• Subjects (packages) that look at technology from the user, society and/or entrepreneur.

• In addition to 5 credits for Humanities & Social Sciences in de basis, a USE component of 15 credits.

• Several variants.• Possibility to choose USE subjects in free electives.

Quality first!

• TU/e remains a university of technology.• Level of graduate TU/e engineer remains high.• More focus on varied needs in the education and

employment market. • Coaching: supervise student, monitor study progress,

prevent dropout.• Study components (subjects and projects) ascribed a level:

introductory, deepening and specializing (advanced).