The application period for Master and Pre-master programmes for the 2026–2027 academic year opens on 1 November 2025 for applicants with an international diploma (obtained outside the Netherlands). Submission deadlines vary depending on your nationality:
| Status applicant | Deadline application |
|---|---|
| Non-EU / EEA applicants | 1 April, 2026 |
| EU / EEA applicants | 1 May, 2026 |
Disclaimer: The Admissions Office will not assess your eligibility or discuss admissibility by email. Your application, diploma, and transcript can only be evaluated once it has been formally submitted. Please review the admission criteria to check whether you meet the requirements.
The admission requirements for the Master Accounting, Auditing and Control are as follows:
All applicants must hold a Bachelor degree (BSc) in the field of accounting, finance, economics or business (administration). Your degree has to be equivalent in both level and content to the BSc in Economics and Business Economics offered by Erasmus School of Economics. It is not necessary to have completed your Bachelor degree at the time of application. However, all requirements of your degree must be fulfilled before the start of the academic year.
The Examination Board of Erasmus School of Economics will assess your Bachelor degree to determine if it meets the admission requirements for your chosen programme.
Your Bachelor degree needs to consist of a solid background in economics, business economics, statistics and mathematics. To check whether you have a sufficient background in terms of content, please compare your curriculum with that of our Bachelor degree in Economics and Business Economics.
A broad background in accounting, finance and economics is required. For all three specialisations: Accounting and Auditing, Accounting and Control and Accounting and Finance the required courses are alike:
- Accounting (management accounting, financial accounting)
- Finance (e.g. investments)
- Financial Information Systems (e.g., bookkeeping)
All our programmes take a strong quantitative approach. A solid background in mathematics, statistics, accounting and economics is a necessity and must be clear from your university transcript.
Topics in statistics you should be familiar with include:
- Variables of chance, probability density function, probability distribution function
- Expectation, variance, standard deviation, skewness
- Normal distributions
- Estimating sample means, statistical significance, confidence intervals
- Testing for differences in sample means
- Univariate and multivariate linear regression model
- Analysing regression statistics: coefficients, t-statistics, R2
- Multi-collinearity
To check whether your knowledge of statistics meets our standards, please take the statistics quiz.
Please note: The outcome of this quiz does not affect or increase your chances of admission. It is only meant as an indication whether you have the required statistical knowledge which is a prerequisite for this Master degree programme. No rights can be derived from the outcome of this quiz.
Erasmus School of Economics follows the guidance of the Dutch governmental institute Nuffic when comparing foreign degrees to the Dutch educational system to assess the level of your Bachelor degree. We recommend reviewing your country’s educational system on their website.
All applicants must demonstrate proficiency in English. Accepted tests must have been taken within two years prior to your application. Only the following tests and minimum scores are accepted:
| Accepted test | Minimum subscore | Minimum total score |
|---|---|---|
| TOEFL iBT | 22 | 91 |
| Academic IELTS | 6.5 | 6.5 |
| Cambridge C1 Advanced (CAE) | 176 | 176 |
| Cambridge C2 Proficiency (CPE) | 176 | 180 |
| Language Cert | 65 | 70 |
| PTE Academic | 65 | 70 |
Please note that online English tests are not accepted for visa and residence permit purposes under IND regulations. If you are a non-EEA student requiring a visa or residence permit, you must take your test at an official test centre. Alternative formats, such as IELTS Indicator, IELTS One Skill Retake, TOEFL Home Edition, or TOEFL MyBest Scores, are not accepted. EEA students may use online test versions.
Your English test scores must meet the minimum requirements before the application deadline. Applications without valid scores will not be considered. Please allow up to 14 days for test results to be published.
Reasons for exemption from an English test are:
- You have obtained your diploma in one of the following countries: Australia, Canada (with the exception of Quebec), Ireland, New Zealand, South-Africa, United Kingdom (with the exception of commonwealth countries and territories) and United States of America.
- English was your first language during your secondary school education for at least 2,5 years in one of the above mentioned countries.
- You have obtained a Dutch VWO diploma in the Netherlands and English was one of your exam subjects.
- You have obtained Dutch four year HBO diploma in the Netherlands including an English language course.
Please note: The Examination Board will make the final decision on granting you an exemption for the English language test based on the above mentioned criteria. Erasmus School of Economics does not offer any preparatory English courses.
An American university in a country that is not mentioned in the list above does not grant you exemption.
Please review our step-by-step application guide and the required documents before submitting your application.
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