Admission Requirements

 Selection criteria 
 

The selection procedure will be managed by SAVUSA. The student must apply through the website or directly by email and the application will be evaluated by the selection committee of the chosen course at the chosen university. The student must meet several basic criteria. A letter of motivation and a letter of recommendation are required. Additionally, the ability to function well in an intercultural environment will be assessed.
The basic criteria are:

• Relevant previous knowledge for the course (e.g. relevant Bachelor-degree). The main subject focused on during the Bachelor phase should relate closely to the master's course the student is applying for. 
• Curriculum vitae, including relevant research papers or thesis, 
• Good skills in mathematics and/or statistics (if required),
• Basic computer skills, 
• For additional conditions see the different courses.

This part of the programme is open for students of any South African university. 15% of the participants may be of non-South African origin.
In case the number of applicants meeting all the requirements exceeds the maximum set for the specific year, priority will be given to those students belonging to (one of) the designated categories under the Employment Equity Act (55 of 1998, issued in terms of Section 25(1), i.e. black people, women or people with disabilities.
The application deadlines will be published on this website at the application page.
Internship
It is possible for Master's students to do a short internship for a maximum of three months instead of a course. Besides, meeting the same requirements as for the courses, this option depends on the collaboration between the South African and the Dutch professor in question. The letter of recommendation is then replaced by a proposal drafted by one of the two professors and supported by the other in which is outlined what the internship will consist of.

• MSc Accounting & Control
• MSc Business Administration
• MSc Economics
• MSc Finance
• STREEM
• The expected prior knowledge MSc subjects at the Delft University of Technology

 Copyright VU University Amsterdam

MSc Accounting & Control

You can gain direct access to the Master’s programme in Accounting & Control with a university Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Business Administration or Econometrics. However, you must have successfully completed the following subjects from the VU-curriculum, or their equivalents at other universities:

• The compulsory core subject Accounting
• The Accounting tutorial
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Management Accounting
• Accounting Information Systems
• Methods and Techniques

Substantively, entry-level knowledge is expected to be equivalent to a thorough familiarity with the following literature:

Financial Accounting	Elliott & Elliot, Financial Accounting, Reporting and Analysis (International edition, Prentice Hall)
Management Accounting	Horngren, Foster & Datar, Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis (Prentice Hall)
Quantitative methods	Berenson, Levine & Krehbiel, Basic Business Statistics, Concepts and Applications (Prentice Hall)
Financial Statement Analysis	Palepu, Bernard & Healy, Business Analysis and Valuation (eighter US GAAP or IRFS edition)

 

MSc Business Administration

 

• Applicants with at least a Bachelor’s degree from another accredited university are admissible if they have a specialization in Business Administration, witnessed by thorough knowledge of the standard literature described below (or its equivalent)
• Standard literature: according to the specialization of their choice students are assumed to be thoroughly familiar with:

Management Consulting
Strategy and Environment	De Wit, B., Meyer, R. (2004) Strategy: Process, Content, Context. An International Perspective. 3rd edition, London: Thomson
Organization Design	Jones, G.R. (2007) Organizational Design and Change. 5th edition, Upper Saddle River: Prentics Hall
Research Methods	Saunders, Lewis, & Tornhill (2007).  Research Methods for Business Students, 4th Edition. Edinburgh: Pearson Education Limited/Prentince Hall
Financial Management
Financial Management	Berk, J. and P. DeMarzo, Corporate Finance, Pearson or Brealey & Myers, Corporate Finance
Financial Markets and Institutions	Mishkin, F,S, and S,G, Eakins, Financial Markets and Institutions, Pearson
Business Statistics	Berenson & Levine & Krehbiel, Basic Business Statistics
Accounting Knowledge	Horngren & Foster (and others), Management Accounting Intermediate textbooks on Financial Accounting or Financial Reporting
Information Knowledge Management
Information Technology	Baltzan, P., Philips, A., & Haag, Stephen (2009). Business Driven Technology (3rd ed.) Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill --- Boddy, D., Boonstra, A, & Kennedy, G. (2008).  Managing Information Systems. Strategy and Organisation (3rd ed.). Harlow, UK: Prentince Hall
E-Business	Turban, E., King, D., McKay, J., Marshall, P., Lee, J. & Viehland, D. (2008), Electronic Commerce 2008: A Managerial Perspective, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey
Knowledge Management	Hislop, D. (2004) Knowledge Management in Organizations, Oxford University Press
Strategy/Strategic Management	G. Johnson & K. Scholes (2005), Exploring Corporate Strategy (7th ed.), Prentice Hall
Management and Organisation	Keuning, D. (2007), Management: A European Perspective (2nd ed.). Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff --- H.L. Tosi, N.P. Mero & J.R. Rizzo (2000), Managing Organizational Behavior (4th ed.). Oxford: Blackwell
Statistics	Berenson, M.L., D.M. Levine & T.C. Krehbiel (2009) Basic Business Statistics, Concepts and Applications (11th ed.) Prentice Hall Press, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey
Marketing/Methodology	Kotler, P. & Armstrong (2009) Principles of Marketing, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddler River (13th ed.) --- Peter & Olson (2007), Consumer Behavior and Marketing Strategy. Mcgraw-Hill (8th ed.) or Yin, R.K. (2003) Case Study research: Design and Methods, Applied Social Research Methods Series, vol. 5, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA
Transport and Supply Chain Management
Operations Management	Heizer, J., Render, B. (2008), Operations Management (9th ed.), USA: Prentice Hall or Slack, N., Chambers, S., Johnston, R. (2007), Operations Management (5th ed.), USA: Prentice Hall
Physical distribution management	Van Goor, A., Ploos van Amstel, R. Ploos van Amstel, W. (2003), European Distribution and Supply Chain Logistics, The Netherlands: Stenfert Kroese or Ballou, R. (2003), Business Logistics Management (5th ed.), USA: Prentice Hall
Introduction to transport economics	Cole, S. (2005), Applied Transport Economics: Policy, management and decision making, (3rd ed.), United Kingdom: Kogan Page
Human Resource Management
Organizational Behavior	Robbins, S.P., & Judge, T.A. (2007). Organizational Behavior. New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc. or FredLuthans (2007) Organizational Behavior  (11th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill
Human Resource Management	Noe et al. (2006) Human Resource Management, Gaining a Competitive Advantage. 5th edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill
Entrepreneurship
Research Methods	Saunders, Lewis, & Thornhill (2007). Research Methods for Business Students, 4th Edition. Edinburg: Pearson Education Limited/Prentice Hall

 

MSc Economics

 

• Applicants with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics (or very closely related) from an accredited university must have sufficient knowledge in both Micro- and Macroeconomics and a solid background in mathematics and statistics for economists. Specifically, students ought to be familiar with mathematics (calculus and algebra), intermediate economics and econometrics at a level commensurate with all of the following texts:

Microeconomics	Varian, H.R., Intermediate Microeconomics, Norton, 7th ed., 2006
Macroeconomics	Gärtner, M, Macroeconomics, Prentice Hall, 2nd ed., 2006
Econometrics and Statistics	Stock, J.H. and Watson, M.W., Introduction to Econometrics. Chapter 1-7, Pearson, 2nd ed., 2006
Mathematics for Economists	Sydsaeter, Knut and Hammond, Essential Mathematics for Economic Analysis, Prentice Hall, 3rd ed., 2008

 

MSc Finance

 

• Applicants must have completed courses in corporate finance, investments, quantitative methods and statistics, witnessed by thorough knowledge of the standard literature listed below (or its equivalent). Students should clearly indicate how Finance courses, followed in their previous program, have brought them up to the level of the textbooks below.
• As a Master’s student in Finance, you need to have a genuine interest in the area of finance, an inquiring mind, the capacity to cope with the rapid pace of work, an aptitude for picking out key points from large volumes of material, the ability to work accurately under pressure, good communication skills and a critical attitude towards your own results and those of others.
• Applicants must have completed the following subjects:

Corporate Finance	Brealey and Myers (2002): Principles of Corporate Finance, 7th ed. [integral] VU-course: Corporate Finance 3.2
Investments	Bodie, Kane, and Marcus (1996): Investments [integral] VU-course: Investments 3.4
Mathematics	Sydsaeter and Hammond (2006, Prentice Hall): Essential Mathematics for Economic Analysis
Business Statistics	Berenson, Levine, Krehbiel (2002): Basic Business Statistics

• Experience in writing a financial research paper, for example in a seminar class or thesis project.

The level at which you must have studied these subjects is indicated by the standard international textbooks in parentheses. This entry level is assumed known in all of our Master's courses. 

 

STREEM (Spatial, Transport and Environmental Economics)

 

• Applicants must have thorough knowledge of the standard literature listed below (or its equivalent). A self-study programme can be advised for these 5 topics:

Microeconomics	Varian, H.R., Intermediate Microeconomics, Norton
Econometrics	Stock, J.H. and M.W. Watson´s Introduction to Econometrics Addision Wesley, New York
Regional Economics	McCann, P. (2001) Urban and Regional Economics Oxford University Press, Oxford
Transport Economics	Boyer, K.D. Principles of Transportation Economics Addison Wesley, Reading
Environmental Economics	Kahn, J.R. (1998) The Economic Approach to Environmental and Natural Resources (2nd edition) The Dryden Press, Forth Worth. Parts I, II and III

 

Expected prior knowledge MSc subjects Delft University of Technology:

 

Geohydrology 2	Fundamentals of Groundwater mechanics and Geohydrology       Geohyrdrology 1
Drinking Water Treatment 2	Drinking Water Treatment 1
Ecology in Water Treatment	Water Quality Modelling       Irrigation and Drainage         Integrated Water Management
Hydrological and Ecological Fieldwork in River Systems	Water Quality Modelling      Hydrological Measurement   Sewerage 1        Ecology in Water Treatment
Pumping stations and Transport Pipelines	Drinking Water Treatment 1      Sewerage 1         Fundamentals of Groundwater mechanics and Geohydrology      Open Channel Flow