NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences, founded in 1966, is a government-funded educational institution with more than 7,000 students from all over the world. The University is situated in the historical city of Breda, which is home to 174,000 inhabitants and 14,000 students, and which is only 100km away from both Amsterdam and Brussels.
 
The University was ranked as the second-best university of applied sciences in the Netherlands in 2016.  The quality of education at NHTV University is exceptional, a fact proven consistently through its international accreditations from the UN World Tourism Organization, the World Leisure Organization and the International Facility Management Association. NHTV offers distinguished Bachelor programmes in Tourism and Hotel Management, Creative Media and Game Technology (the best programme in the country), Media Entertainment, and Logistics. NHTV also offers Mater programmes in Tourism, Leisure, Media, Games, and Imagineering.

NHTV has developed the teaching model of the learning community, whereby students work on real-life cases and assignments from professional practice in order to achieve entrepreneurial skills, creativity, innovation, professional responsibility, internalisation and open-mindedness to alternative approaches.  The University also encourages work placements abroad or at internationally oriented companies, giving students the opportunity to apply their knowledge to ever-changing contexts, and it generally places value on student motivation, rather than formal grades.

Breda is a vibrant and fun-loving city in the south of the Netherlands, with numerous present-day activities such as free live performances and films, museums, theatres, pubs, nightclubs, concerts at the Mezz Centre, as well as beautiful outdoor places to hang out, making it an ideal city for students. 

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