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PDEng degrees can be obtained at four technical Universities in the Netherlands, Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, University of Twente, and Wageningen University & Research. Between these universities interscholastic cooperation programs exist like the 4TU Federation and its Stan Ackermans Institute. [2]
The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft; Dutch: Technische Universiteit Delft) is the oldest and largest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, The Netherlands. It specializes in engineering , technology , computing , design , and natural sciences .
Instruction at the undergraduate level tends to be in Dutch, but it is in English for most Masters and PhD programs. Dutch universities used to offer only four- or five-year courses. Since 2002 most of them now offer three-year undergraduate programmes, leading to a bachelor's degree, and one- or two-year Master's programmes.
Today the Faculty has a student body of approximately 2300 undergraduates and graduates, 237 members of academic staff and 181 PhD students. [3] Around 34% of the student population is from outside the Netherlands. The TU Delft scored 15th in the world in the 2013 "Engineering and Technology" QS World University Rankings.
It is also one of the top faculties in the world: it was ranked 2nd in the world's top universities for architecture & built environment in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020, following the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and 3rd in 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019. [5] [6]
The TU Delft Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management is a faculty for graduation and post-graduation studies in Technology, Policy and Management of the Delft University of Technology. Through internationally oriented education and research the faculty want to contribute with "sustainable solutions to complex social problems ".
The 4TU.School for Technological Design, Stan Ackermans Institute (4TU.SAI) was started in 1986 at TU/e; the name was chosen in honor of prof.dr. S.T.M. Ackermans, the rector magnificus of the university who retired the year before and who spent a good deal of his career lobbying for more attention in university education to the needs of the companies who would employ the graduates.
In 2016, the U.S. News & World Report rankings for the top ten graduate programs were: (1) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (2) Georgia Institute of Technology, (2) Stanford University, (4) University of Michigan, (4) California Institute of Technology, (6) Purdue University, (7) University of Texas at Austin, (8) University of Illinois ...