State of the art degree programme Creative Business (CB) prepares you for a career in the global creative business. It focusses on the latest trends shaping businesses and societies and empowers you to design sustainable solutions for the global economy. You work with an international group of students and tutors. You use and apply professional practice’s tools and methodologies to become the strategic creative for a sustainable world.

What's CB actually about? Let our students break it down for you

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During your time with us, you will build on your professional profile and personal brand by creating your own learning paths that match your interests and needs. CB has a global focus – from day one you work in cross-cultural international teams, and on cross-border projects in various fields:  Marketing, Branding, Creativity, Humanities, Media and Business Innovation. Your fellow students and our teaching staff come from all over the world, and you will spend at least one semester working or studying abroad. You develop into a strategic creative professional with an entrepreneurial mindset, ready for an (international) career in creative business.

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Programme Creative Business: Creative work in progress
During the programme

Start a global creative business

Explore the foundations of business models, digital media design, marketing and consumer behaviour. Work together with an international group of students and tutors on global projects.

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After your graduation

A strategic creative for a sustainable world

After graduating, you’ll be a flexible and creative professional with an entrepreneurial mindset, focussed on sustainability. You will be ready for an (international) career in creative strategy, branding, marketing, business and media. For example, as a customer experience manager, creative or (social) media strategist. Another option: start your own business.

Admission requirements Creative Business

Applying after secondary school or MBO?

If you want to start with the Creative Business degree programme, you need to have a secondary school diploma at a sufficient level and English proficiency of at least CEFR level B1. You should also have a good head for numbers.

Applying without a diploma?

Are you 21 years or older and you don't have a (sufficient) diploma? Then you'll need to take an admission test.

Does this programme suit you?

  • Analytical mindset

    You learn how to manage the commercial power of creativity, think strategically and conceptually, and find innovative ways to solve the challenges of today’s international creative business.

  • Creative thinker

    You will be prepared for international careers in corporate, medium or start-up environments.

  • Global teamplayer

    We prepare and train you for global flexibility in a collaborative setting. From day one you work in cross-cultural international teams, on cross-border projects.

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Application Deadline Dutch students living in the Netherlands: 1 May // Are you an international student? Find the application deadline that applies to you on www.internationalhu.com/admissions-bachelor
Start September
Location Heidelberglaan 15 Utrecht
Programme level Bachelor
Numerus fixus No
Croho-name B Creative Business
Croho-code 35516
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