Application and Requirements

Exchange students of partner universities

To be accepted as an incoming exchange student, you need to check whether your home university holds an exchange contract with Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (the Exchange Coordinator of your home university can provide you with this information). It is important that your home university nominates you as an exchange student first, before you start your application.

Free Mover student?

Students from universities that do not have a mobility agreement with the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC), can apply as free mover for a specific period.
Free movers pay tuition fee for the period of their registration at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Please contact us if you are interested in this option.

Admission requirements

Students can attend our programmes from their sophomore year onwards. This means all students should have completed at least one year of their bachelor’s degree programme at the time of their exchange.

When you apply:

  • You must hold an official academic transcript of records in English (starting from year 1 to present, including courses you will finish before the start of your exchange *).

*If your transcript of records does not include the list of courses you will finish before the start of your exchange, then you must provide this list separately at the time of your application.

  • If you are a master student, you need to upload your official transcript of both Bachelors and Masters.

You meet our English language requirements if one of the following applies to you:

  • You hold one of the following Proof of English proficiencies:
    • 92 score TOEFL;
    • 7.0 score IELTS;
    • B2 level Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) only for Erasmus+ students;

*Important! Test scores may not be older than two years at the time of application. Note that it takes several weeks before the results of the tests are known. If you have not yet taken any English test, we recommend that you take the IELTS or TOEFL.

  • If your study programme is taught in English. In that case, a statement from your home university is sufficient proof which needs to be submitted with the application.
  • If you are a native English speaker and you have obtained your diploma in one of the following countries: Australia, Canada (with the exception of Quebec), Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom or the United States of America.
  • If we have made special arrangements with your university (Please ask the International Office of your home university). 

When you apply, you must hold a valid passport or European ID card. Please make sure your passport is not expired at the time of your application.

Application procedure

The application for the exchange programme is done online. We will send students a link to the application form once we have received the nominations from the home university. 

The application deadlines are as follows:

Semester 1 (Sep - Jan)1 May
Semester 2 (Feb - Jun)1 October
Full year1 May

Steps in the application form

Please fill in your personal details.
At 'Request for', please select: Application Exchange History, Culture and Communication 2024-2025.

You will then receive two emails (please check you spam if you miss the emails in your inbox):

  1. Email with your Erasmus University Rotterdam student number and description of the application procedure. 
  2. Email with your username and password.

Personal details continue – you will then be required to fill in your postal address, exchange period (Fall, Spring, Summer term, or Full year), and information about your home institution. 

Please, fill in the rest of the form.

Please fill in information about contact details of your home university, your study level, your preferred department at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (History/Arts and Culture/Media and Communication) and your motivation statement (max 500 words).

Please fill in your provisional study plan. This is not your final course list. We would like to know which courses you are interested in. The course list can be found on this page under course offer.

Mandatory 

  • Official academic transcript in English (starting from year 1 to present. Please include the courses you are currently in and that you will finish before the start of your exchange) 
  • A copy of your passport or European ID card (front and back). If you have a double nationality and one of your nationalities is EU/EEA, please upload this passport.
  • A Statement of English proficiency or an English language certificate (see exemptions below*):
    • B2 Common European Framework of Reference for Erasmus+ students;
    • 92 Academic TOEFL;
    • 7.0 Academic IELTS.
    • If your study programme is taught in English a statement from your home university is sufficient proof, which needs to be submitted with the application.

*You are exempt from providing an English proficiency statement:

  • If you are a native English speaker and you have obtained your diploma in one of the following countries: Australia, Canada (with the exception of Quebec), Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom or the United States of America.
  • When we have made special arrangements with your university. Please ask the International Office of your home university.

Optional 

  • An official nomination letter of your university.

Please fill in the contact information of your emergency contact. We will only contact your emergency contact person in case of need.

Please grant us permission to send the Transcript of Records to your home university at the end of your exchange.

Please check your form before application. If your form is correct and complete, please press 'submit application'.

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