HBO Bouwkunde Bridging Semester

If you take a bridging semester after your Built Environment Bachelor's degree programme in Architecture, Urban Design, a major in Landscape Architecture or Garden Architecture at a University of Applied Sciences (HBO), you can switch to the university Master's degree programme in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences at TU Delft.

The HBO BK bridging semester is offered exclusively in the spring semester and starts in February.

The bridging semester is very intensive because it needs to ensure that graduates of a University of Applied Sciences gain familiarity with the broadly-oriented, academic and design-focused working method of the BK programme relatively quickly. It therefore focuses on highly motivated students from a University of Applied Sciences. The bridging semester is tailored to students with at least 60 EC of relevant design experience. Students who have not acquired the necessary design experience through prior education or work experience will need to put in considerably more effort to pass the semester than is indicated in the study load. 

Procedure

If you would like to receive a provisional screening indication for the fall semester, please complete this form and send it to IC-bk@tudelft.nl before 1 December. 
In response to this you will receive a provisional screening indication.

Study programme

The programme consists of 20 EC for design projects, 5 EC for design reflection and 5 EC on theory and methods.  

For more information:

• Programme outline (Study guide)
• Preparation for the HBO BK bridging semester (literature, ‘must have seen’, etc.) (PDF in Dutch)

Admission and registration

Admission requirements
You can be admitted to the bridging semester in Architecture if you have obtained a Bachelor's degree specialising in Architecture, Urbanism, Landscape Architecture or Garden Architecture at a University of Applied Sciences.

Please note:

• certified diplomas and certificates of the entrance exams must be handed in to the Central Student Administration via mail contactcentre-esa@tudelft.nl. For more information please visit this site: admission requirements.
• participation in the first week of lectures is compulsory.

Registration

Find information about application and enrolment here

If you would like to participate in the bridging semester, you will need to register in good time via Studielink. When registering via Studielink, in the ‘type of programme’ field, select ‘Bachelor's programme or other non-Master's programmes’ and then ‘Bridging programme Master's in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences’ from the list of programmes.

Please note: You will not be officially registered and therefore admitted unless you meet the admission requirements described above.