Creating user experience in hospitality, health, and sustainability within organisations
- Bachelor
- Full-time
- 4 years
Creating user experience in hospitality, health, and sustainability within organisations
Develop the skills to design and implement changes in services and space management, so that you can positively change people’s behaviour and make them feel at home.
Each academic year consists of two semesters: the first semester focuses on services and the second one on (work)space management.
Research and, subsequently, improve a facility management service.
Design a (work)space with the users' wishes in mind, but also taking into account relevant space management concepts.
In the Personal Leadership course, you will work under supervision on your basic personal skills regarding attitude and behaviour within professional practice.
Within the Professional Skills course, you will develop skills that you can immediately use in projects.
What makes studying at Hanze UAS unique is that you will work on projects for real clients and contribute to concrete solutions for current issues impacting society. Below, you can find some examples of projects our students engage in.
The art of a Facility Manager is to arrange everything behind the scenes so well that no one notices he is there.
I am really interested in the cultural sector
EuroFM COIL has significantly broadened my perspective on facilities management in a global context
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Every person needs a pleasant, safe and well-equipped environment to live, work and relax in. At home you can create your own living environment, perfectly catered to your own needs. Most people, however, spend a great deal of their time in public spaces or buildings with other people: at work, at school, or at the local sports club. It’s a Facility Management Professional's job to organise good facilities in these places. In this programme you will learn all aspects of becoming a good facility manager. What are places where you could work? Think of an office complex, a campus, a holiday resort, a football stadium, a hospital, a conference centre, a festival site or an industrial estate.
International Facility Management (IFM) is a business management programme centred around people’s perception and experience of organisations and public spaces. We generally work with, and in professional practice provide our students with, real-world learning opportunities. You are taught by professionals in the field, go on field trips (for example to the hospital) and carry out real-life projects. Some of these projects will take place in our living labs, where you will work with other students, lecturer-researchers and entrepreneurs to develop solutions for spatial design problems. For example, first-year students are instructed to measure the indoor climate of our classrooms. The results of these measurements are actually used to improve the indoor climate, helping our lecturers and students to perform more effectively.
The first year is an introduction to Facility Management. You learn how to develop a sustainable and innovative work environment. Furthermore, you gain an understanding of how FM-professionals analyse and improve the effectiveness, efficiency and service level of a company. You also learn to manage, structure and improve services from a customer-oriented perspective. This includes Human Resource Management.
In the second year, you focus on the themes Service Innovation and Spaces, and immerse yourself in projects related to hospitality, health or sustainability. You design and work out your own service by means of Design Thinking and Facility Management Canvas and expand your knowledge of space management.
In the third year you are going to study abroad (to do a minor) at a partner university around the world, for example in Austria, France, Finland, Spain, Turkey, the United States, Canada, Indonesia or other countries in Asia. However, if you are from outside of the Netherlands, you could also do your minor here. You also go on a five-month internship as an assistant to the manager in a company, to further increase your knowledge, skills and competencies as a developing FM professional.
The fourth year starts with a semester called Experience, in which you focus on the experience of people in spaces. You will also start preparing for your graduation project. You will finalise your study with an assignment within an organisation of your choice. You will analyse a project and give advice or make a design.
For more information, please check our ECTS Course Catalogue.
After successful completion of the International Facility Management programme, you can continue with a postgraduate study and pursue a master's degree.
Hanze UAS offers multiple master's programmes that would be a good follow-up to your bachelor's degree in Facility Management. These are the following master's degrees (NL/EN):
After graduation you will be able to find a job at a management level. The most popular jobs include:
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Diploma: Upper Secondary School diploma, such as:
France: Baccalaureat
Germany: Hochschulreife Abitur or Fachhochschulreife
UK: 2 GCE A/S-levels and 4 GCSES (GCE A, B or C-levels)
Denmark: Gymnasium/HF/HHX
Sweden, Norway: Upper Secondary School
Equivalent level of education for other countries
To be admitted to this programme, you will need a national secondary school diploma or an international secondary school diploma. Your educational qualifications must be equivalent to the Dutch HAVO secondary school diploma. As the programme is taught in English, you may have to prove your English language proficiency, depending on your educational background and nationality.
If you want to apply for the study programme of your choice, you have to submit your request first in our national registration system Studielink. After this, we will start the admissions process through our own application system 'Hanze Apply'.
The general application deadline:
Please note that a Letter of Admission will only be issued after the Admissions Committee and Student Administration have assessed the application in full.
Language requirements
Non-EU students: Proof of good command of the English language: an IELTS score of 6.0 (with no subscore below 5.5) or a TOEFL paper-based overall score: 550 or TOEFL internet-based score 80 (no subscore below 17)
EU students: If you have a sufficient score in English on your Upper Secondary School diploma: no TOEFL/IELTS is required
Hanze UAS reserves the right to check, the authenticity of all (both Dutch and foreign) documents submitted in support of your application.
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