The University of Twente  is a public technical university located in Enschede, Netherlands.

The UT collaborates with Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology and the Wageningen University and Research Centre under the umbrella of 4TU and is also a partner in the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU).

The university has been placed in the top 400 universities in the world by multiple major ranking tables. The UT was ranked 65th in the Reuters‘s 2017 European Most Innovative Universities, and, 184th worldwide in 2019 according to the Times Higher Education magazine.

Organization

Administration

The current director of the university is professor Thom Palstra. The other two members of the executive board are Victor van der Chijs (president executive board) and Mirjam Built-Spiering (vice-president)^[8]

Faculties

There are five faculties at the University of Twente; each faculty is in turn organized into several departments:

• Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS) – i.a. Communication studies, psychology, public administration, educational science & technology, European studies, environmental & energy management and Risk management
• Engineering Technology (ET) – i.a. Mechanical engineering, civil engineering, industrial design engineering and sustainable energy technology.
• Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) – i.a. Electrical engineering, applied mathematics, interaction technology, internet science & Technology and computer science.
• Science and Technology (ST) – i.a. Chemical engineering, applied physics, biomedical engineering, health sciences, advanced technology and nanotechnology.
• Faculty of Geo-information Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC) – i.a. spatial engineering, cartograpy, geo-information science & earth observation.

Next to the programmes administered by the faculties mentioned above, University College Twente offers the broad honours BSc programme in Technology and Liberal Arts and Sciences, or ATLAS for short, and the Twente Graduate School offers post graduate education (PhD and PDEng).^[9] Since 2019, this study is part of the faculty ITC.

Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees

The University of Twente has the following faculties with corresponding bachelor- and master programmes: