Rights and Obligations
Every student has certain rights and obligations. And every year, we list the most important regulations in a revised version of the Student Charter. You can also find programme-specific rights and obligations in the Education and Examination Regulations (OER-HU) and the study guide for your degree programme. So you know exactly where you stand.
The Student Charter
The Student Charter (2024-2025) offers a general survey of our main agreements as to what you are and aren’t allowed to do as a HU student and refers to the specific regulations in which this is further specified.
Study guides and Education and Examination Regulations
The Education and Examination Regulations (EER-HU) set out HU students’ rights and obligations as far as education, reviews and examinations are concerned.
The study guides provide further details on your rights and obligations at the level of your individual degree programme as set out in OER-HU. In addition, these guides offer substantive information about each programme: from subjects and themes to practical information.
Appeal procedure
You are free to formally lodge an appeal to a decision taken by HU if you disagree with it. You may believe that your examination work was incorrectly assessed, for example. Or you may disagree with the study advice issued to you, because your performance was affected by personal circumstances.
Lodging an appeal is fairly straightforward. At the bottom of the decision is stated how and in which time limit you have to lodge your appeal.
To guarantee that you provide all the required information, please use the digital form. After you have completed and submitted the form, your appeal will be heard by HU’s Legal Protection for Students Office.
Please note: be sure to lodge your appeal within six weeks of the date of the decision.
Download the current regulations
Several regulations are only available in Dutch. You can find the ones below on HU.nl:
- Cyberwijzer - Gedragsregels ICT-faciliteiten HU
- Gedragscode taal HU
- Privacyverklaring HU studenten
- Profileringsfonds Afstudeersteun
- Profileringsfonds Noodfondsregeling
- Profileringsfonds Kennisbeurzen
- Profileringsfonds Topsportregeling
- Profileringsfonds Bestuursbeurzenregeling
- Profileringsfonds Collegegeldvrij besturen
- Reglement Certificeringscommissie HU
- Reglement Ombudsman HU
- Reglement Studentendecanen HU
For the following regulations visit our Governance-page:
- HU Participatory Decision-Making Regulations
- HU Board and Administrative Regulations
- Articles of Hogeschool Utrecht Foundation
- Code of Conduct: International Student in Higher Education
Several regulations are only available in Dutch. You can find the ones below on HU.nl:
- Huishoudelijk Reglement Raad van Toezicht
- Regeling Ongewenst Gedrag
- Reglement Auditcommissie RvT
- Reglement Commissie onderwijs en onderzoek RvT
- Reglement Selectie en Remuneratiecommissie