Help people for whom it doesn't come naturally to get and stay in motion
- Bachelor
- Full-time
- 4 years
- Level
- bachelor
- Form
- full-time
- Duration
- 4 years
- Language
- English
- Locations
- Groningen
- Degree
- Bachelor of Science
- Credits
- 240 ECTS
- Startmonths
- Start: September
- Health and Sports
Do you want to help people for whom movement does not come naturally (anymore)? Are you curious about the human body and would you like to learn how to help people with different mobility problems? From an athlete with a knee injury to an office worker with back problems. From a toddler with developmental disabilities to a gentleman with Parkinson's disease. Do you want to get people moving healthily again? Then the International Physiotherapy Programme (IPP) might be right up your street.
Student experiences
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What will you be studying?
From the very first year, you get to know the human body inside and out, by practising on yourself and your fellow students, while gaining a solid medical-biological foundation. You will learn where which muscles and joints are located and how they work, discover different health conditions and work on behavioural change, entrepreneurship and (intercultural) communication.
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Projects with impact
What makes studying at Hanze UAS unique is that you will work on projects for real clients and contribute to concrete solutions for current issues impacting society. Below, you can find some examples of projects our students engage in.
Projects
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About this programme
If you choose Physiotherapy, you will learn all about how people move and how to help people of all ages and backgrounds with different mobility problems. You will ensure that your knowledge, treatment skills and attention will help people regain healthy movement so they can live healthily and actively. Whether you teach nurses how to cope better with heavy physical labour or you are treating an elderly man with a painful knee, as a physiotherapist you work with different target groups and different methodologies to get people moving healthily again.
During this programme you will be trained to become a confident and committed physiotherapist who is able to make informed choices about the care of patients. You enjoy the challenge of helping people with very different mobility problems. Think of a construction worker with back pain, a basketball player undergoing rehabilitation or a patient who has had a stroke and is learning to grab something again. After your studies, you can specialise further, for example in paediatric physiotherapy, sports physiotherapy or manual therapy.
The study programme offers a broad mix of medical-biological knowledge, physiotherapy treatment methods, behavioural psychology and communication and entrepreneurship, among other things. You will learn all the ins and outs of the human body, learn how to communicate well with your patients and investigate the connection between behaviour, environment, disease and health. You will learn which treatment plans and coaching you can utilise to make an immediate difference in people's active lifestyle. Would you like to get and keep people moving healthily again? Then Physiotherapy is for you!
Course overview
Year 1
In your first year, you build up your basic knowledge and skills as a physiotherapist. From anatomy to pathology and patient demonstrations to a small internship. You will learn all about the construction and functioning of bones, muscles and joints. Conversation skills and health behaviour are covered during the first year too. Also, you will visit a physiotherapy practice and practice a lot with and on your fellow students. Where are the important muscles and joints located? And how do you perform a physiotherapy examination, for example? Furthermore, you will learn about evidence-based practice where you use the patient and therapist experiences together with research findings to determine the best treatment. In addition, you develop your entrepreneurial attitude and work on your own professional development.
Year 2
During the second year you continue to work on your knowledge and skills as a Physiotherapist. The movement problems and topics you will study are more complex and specialised. For example, you will learn all about treating patients with heart or lung problems, and neurological conditions such as dementia or Parkinson's disease. Moreover, you will learn to justify treatment choices. You will also get to work with patients dealing with physical problems for which you cannot find a simple solution.
Years 3 and 4
In the third and fourth year, you will increasingly apply the knowledge and skills learnt in the first two years of practice. This is how you develop as a physiotherapist who gets and keeps people moving. During year three and the first semester of year four, you will take a mandatory minor, which will be physiotherapy-related. You will start your external clinical and you will have the possibility to choose an exchange programme or minor of your choice. It is possible to choose an exchange programme or minor abroad at one of our partner universities, or you can choose from one of the options at Hanze UAS, Groningen. The minors Global Health, Healthy Ageing or Physiotherapy & Sport are just a few of the many available options. Finally, during your graduation clinical and assignment you will work on a physiotherapy case in a real organisation.
Throughout the programme, you will also work on your entrepreneurial attitude, your own professional development and your research skills. This way, you will know how to work evidence-based when you graduate as a physiotherapist and be able to start your own practice, for example.
After your studies
Pursue a master's degree
Having completed your bachelor's degree, you can also opt for a master's degree. This is a one-year to three-year study programme at a university of applied sciences or a research university.
Career prospects
With a Physiotherapy diploma, you have a broad future. Internationally, this programme is highly regarded. In your own country as well as abroad, you can work at organisations in the field of healthcare, education, business and research. Most physiotherapists work in healthcare, for example in hospitals, nursing homes, physiotherapy practices, health centres or rehabilitation centres. But you can also work in educational organisations such as medical nurseries or schools for deaf, blind or otherwise disabled children. You may go into education and teach future colleagues. Business is also one of the possibilities. Think, for example, of developing programmes to improve working conditions for health insurance companies or occupational health and safety services. Of course, you can also work in a gym or set up your own practice.
Personalise your programme
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- Choice of optional subjects Health and Sports
- Studying abroad Health and Sports
- International Placement Desk (IPD Health and Sports
- Honours Talent Programme Healthy Ageing Health and Sports
Programme related services & facilities
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- Student association Fysiek Health and Sports
- Hanze Active Ageing Lab (HAAL) Health and Sports
- Soundproof pods
- International Placement Desk (IPD Health and Sports
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Admission & application
To enrol to the International Programme Physiotherapy, you will need a secondary school diploma equivalent to the Dutch HAVO diploma (General Secondary Education).
If you want to know more about the value of your own diploma, you can check thediploma comparisonsite of our national agency NUFFIC.
A minimum level of English language proficiency is required. The English language proficiency must be provenby submitting a test score (not more than two years old) fromIELTS,TOEFL,Cambridge ESOLorTOEIC.For the International Programme Physiotherapy anaverage IELTS score of 6.0 is required.
For more information and possible exemptions, please check the general Hanze page on language requirementshere.
For the academic year 2025-2026 there are340placesavailable (100 for the English-taught programme and 240 for theDutch-taught programme). In a selection process the programme itself selects students based on criteria established by the programme. The advantage of selection is that you get a chance to show how motivated you are to follow the programme. In other words, we do not only look at what you are capable of doing but also at your motivation.
Do you want to participate in the selection process?Apply no later than 15th of January 2025. Theonlineselectionwill be onSaturday,1st ofFebruary2025.
To participate in the selection procedure for the International Physiotherapy Programme, you must follow these steps:
1. Check official requirements:
- Secondary school diploma equivalent to the Dutch HAVO diploma.
- English language requirements: 6.0 score or higher at the IELTS test (or equivalent)
2. Apply before15th of January 2025 viaStudielinkfor the IPP (International Physiotherapy Programme) (from the 1st of October 2024).
3. By 20 January 2025 at the latest, you will receive a link to a digital registration form, a link to a digital Motivation and Learning Styles test and information about thestudy material and lecture. The registration form must be completed onlineno later than 31st of January 2025.This form includes your CV, a competency questionnaire and a knowledge test relating to the Physiotherapy programme.The digital Motivation and Learning Styles test must also be completed onlineno later than 31st of January 2025.
4. The online selection day will take place onSaturday 1st of February 2025 and consists ofa knowledge test containing questions about the lecture and study material provided beforehand.
To be able to participate the online selection day you need to have a Hanze student email address. This email address will only be provided after the following 2 steps in Hanze Apply:
1. Uploading your ID
2. Status: Submitted
The ranking will be determined based on scores for the following components:
- sections of the registration form
- results of the completed digital Motivation and Learning Styles test
- results of the test on the onlineselection day
Failure to complete the registration form and the digital Motivation and Learning Styles test before 31st of January 2025 and/or not participating in the selection day means that you have no scores for these components and this will influence your ranking number.
The department creates a ranking on the basis of the selection results. If you have applied for a place in a programme with selection, you will be informed of your ranking via Studielink by mid-April. You will receive an email with the subject line 'assigned ranking'.
Offer of a place (ranking within 340: 100 English-taught and 240Dutch-taught programme)
If you are offered a place in the programme, you will receive an email informing you of this fact and providing additional details. You will then have 14 days to confirm your enrolment in Studielink. If you do not enrol within 14 days, you forfeit your place and it will be offered to the next student on the list. In addition to confirming your enrolment, you must also meet all the criteria for admission to the programme in order for your enrolment to be finalised before of the 1st of July 2025.
If you have questions about the application procedure and selection for the Physiotherapy programme, please contactusvia[emailprotected]. For general questions about registration or deregistration, you can also contact the Student Administration.
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Petrus Driessenstraat 3 9714 CA Groningen
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