Zuyd University of Applied Sciences is a vocational university

Vocational university

A vocational university is an institution of higher education and sometimes research, which provides both tertiary and sometimes quaternary education and grants academic degrees at all levels in a variety of subjects...

 with campuses in Heerlen

Heerlen

Heerlen is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. The municipality is the second largest in the province of Limburg. It forms part of Parkstad Limburg, , an agglomeration of about 220,000 inhabitants.After its early Roman beginnings and a rather modest medieval period, Heerlen...

, Sittard

Sittard

Sittard is a city in the Dutch province of Limburg, which is the southernmost province of the Netherlands.On the east Sittard borders on Germany . It has some 48,400 inhabitants . Sittard is part of the municipality of Sittard-Geleen...

 and Maastricht

Maastricht

Maastricht is situated on both sides of the Meuse river in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, on the Belgian border and near the German border...

 in the southeastern Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

.

The main focus of Zuyd University is on Bachelor

Bachelor

A bachelor is a man above the age of majority who has never been married . Unlike his female counterpart, the spinster, a bachelor may have had children...

 programmes, 52 in total , most of them in Dutch. There are currently 8 master programmes.

In the latest edition of the Keuzegids Hoger Onderwijs 2008 ('2008 Higher Education Guide’), Zuyd University takes first place of the 13 larger vocational universities, with an average score of 6.85.

Academics

Zuyd University has the following divisions:

• Economics, Languages, Communication and Hospitality
• Health Care
• Social Studies, Behaviour & Society
• Arts & Design, Music
• Teacher Training / Education
• Technology and Engineering

Zuyd University of Applied Sciences consists of the following faculties, at three different locations:

Faculty	Location
Ergo therapy	Heerlen
Health and Technology	Heerlen
Logopedics	Heerlen
Nursing	Heerlen
Construction	Heerlen
Life Science	Heerlen
ICT	Heerlen/Sittard/Maastricht
Technology	Heerlen
Facility Management	Heerlen
Education	Heerlen/Maastricht
International Business & Communication	Maastricht
Social Pedagogic Work	Maastricht
Social Pedagogic Work	Sittard
Social Work	Sittard
School of Hotel Management http://www.hotelschoolmaastricht.nl/	Maastricht
Academy of Music Conservatorium Maastricht The Maastricht Academy of Music, Dutch: Conservatorium Maastricht, located in the city of Maastricht, is one of nine music academies in the Netherlands...	Maastricht
Academy of Fine Arts Academie Beeldende Kunsten Maastricht The Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts, Dutch: Academie Beeldende Kunsten Maastricht , is located in the city of Maastricht in the Netherlands. It is part of the Zuyd University...	Maastricht
Academy of Dramatic Arts Toneelacademie Maastricht The Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts, Dutch: Toneelacademie Maastricht, is located in the city of Maastricht in the Netherlands. It is part of the Zuyd University...	Maastricht
Academic of Architecture	Maastricht
Work and Law	Sittard
International Business & Management Studies	Maastricht
Marketing Management	Sittard
Academie Verloskunde Maastricht (University of Midwifery Education & Studies)	Maastricht