Study climate

Discipline grants success
The Terschelling maritime and hydrographic training courses is not exactly a piece of cake, but, provided you meet the admission standards, success smiles at the end of your 4 year course. Among other things this can be explained from the degree of mild discipline characterizing our education. Discipline is certainly a quality required in your future career and the basis for it is laid during your student life on the island. During a normal week you attend lectures and practice from Monday to Friday included, arriving on time equipped with your study materials, but once every 3 weeks you have a long weekend: departing by ferry at Friday noon and arriving back on campus Monday night by the night ferry. At the campus there are obligatory hours of study. Should you lack sufficient knowledge of science and mathematics, remedial lessons are provided for.
Over the years the reward of this disciplined study climate (and lecturers’scholarship of course) was certainly the traditional average of 85 % students actually crowning the study they started with a diploma /certificate of competency. In comparison with other universities of professional education and nautical schools an outstanding, unequalled result!

Team spirit and good-fellowship
Experience through the years has taught that campus life can considerably contribute to developing character traits as team spirit and comradeship, features which are absolutely indispensable for a function on board a seagoing vessel.

Females on board?
As in most technical courses girls are still a minority at the MIWB, although numbers are increasing. Both sexes are considered equal, excluding the application of extra facilities for females, reflecting the everyday situation on board ship.

Uniform
Uniform is still the dress code with most merchant shipping companies. So every student living on campus is obliged to wear a uniform during working hours.