Preparatory training of higher education for foreign speakers (VTHO)

Attention: This is not the page of the Preparatory Year of Dutch for Speakers of Other Languages. Click here for information about this trajectory.

For whom?

You want to follow a Dutch programme at a university or a university college in Flanders or in Brussels.
You have (recently) migrated to Flanders.
At the start of the training you have reached the Dutch language level of B1 (UCT Gent level 3) or higher (there will be an obligatory entry test).
You have obtained at least a secondary school certificate in your home country or in Belgium (OKAN-school or TKO).
You have obtained at least a secondary school degree in your home country.
You have been selected on the basis of an interview and a number of tests.

A full-time year programme:

Acquisition of Dutch as a second language and language coaching.
Training of study skills.
Study counseling (and introduction to higher education, how to select a field of study,…).
Optional modules (English, mathematics, physics and chemistry).
Optional: a number of official courses at a university or university college.