Business Administration (bol)

You can start as an employee and progress to a manager, supervisor, or consultant at a small or medium-sized (wholesale) company. You'll analyze business operations and collaborate with your colleagues to improve the company's results. In wholesale, you'll capitalize on market opportunities. You'll also be involved in day-to-day tasks. 

This program offers excellent preparation in business economics, management, logistics, marketing, and sales, enabling successful transfer to higher professional education programs such as Business Economics, Commercial Economics, and Small Business and Retail Management. Students with a transition certificate from 3rd to 4th year of pre-university secondary education (HAVO/VWO) are also welcome to apply, with a vocational diploma in hand. Starting your own business alongside your studies and expanding later is perfectly possible, but we do recommend gaining experience at various companies first.

Year 1 is a foundation year in which you attend classes together with students from the Commercial Assistant, (Junior) Account Manager, and Recruiter programs.

Practical assignments form the foundation of the program. You'll learn professional skills through lectures, workshops, group learning, or independent study. You'll work on these assignments for regional companies in the commercial center. Your learning process could include coaching during telephone sales, guidance in market research, or even pitching your results to your client. This effective learning method offers ample opportunities to adapt to your learning style.

During this challenging program, you'll be challenged to come up with creative solutions. You'll learn sales and influencing techniques by applying your commercial and financial knowledge. The program combines an internship (from the first year onwards) and school. You can find a suitable internship yourself.

The learning years consist of: 15% elective parts, 35% profile part, 50% basic part.

The Education and Examination Regulations (OER) of a course specify what you will be doing in which period, how much time is spent on this and an overview of the exams that will be taken. Find the OER for your course here.

Search by your Crebo number (see the box on the right of this page) to view the OER for the current academic year. This will give you a general idea of what's expected of you when you start the program. The OER for the upcoming academic year will be available in July.

The statutory tuition fee for the 2026-2027 school year is €1.511. Check DUO.nl for possible student financing.

For an estimate of the additional costs for this course, please see mbowebshop.nlEvery year, by July 1st, all school fees for the following academic year are announced there. To actually order, you must log in with your Summa account.

Laptop

For many courses, students cannot do without a laptop. See the overview whether this applies to your course and download the correct specifications.

During your studies, you'll choose one or more electives to specialize or broaden your knowledge. For example, in entrepreneurship, online marketing and e-commerce, or HBO (higher professional education) transition. You'll receive more information about the electives you can take during your studies. Each elective concludes with an exam. Read more about elective courses.

Study in figures provides clear information about this program and its job prospects. Want to learn more about these figures? Then check out this explanation (pdf). This program offers excellent job prospects in the Southeast Brabant region, according to figures from independent organizations such as S-BB, UWV, and CentERdata.

For the vocational training (level 3) and middle management training (level 4) you must meet one of the following conditions:

• You have a diploma in pre-vocational secondary education (VMBO) with a pre-vocational secondary education (VMBO) track, a theoretical pre-vocational secondary education (VMBO) track, or a mixed pre-vocational secondary education (VMBO) track.
• You have an (older) diploma from lbo, vbo, mavo or mavo-vbo.
• You have a basic vocational training diploma (level 2) or a diploma from another vocational training course (level 3).
• You have proof that you successfully completed the first three years of pre-university or senior general secondary education (havo) or pre-university education (vwo). Or you have another diploma or certificate recognized by the government.

• Do you have a level 3 vocational diploma in the same field? Then you may be eligible to enroll in the second year.

You will be invited for a personal interview or introductory meeting where you will get to know the school and we will see if this course is a good fit for you.

Teachers know what's going on at school. Feel free to ask your questions to our teachers using the contact information below:

WhatsApp
Contact: Judith Smits
Business-to-business teacher: Bas van Oorschot

E-mail
Contact: Judith Smits
Business-to-business teacher: Bas van Oorschot

Instagram
Student Tulsi Gokoel, DM to: @x.tulsi
Student Freek Hoppenbrouwers, DM to: @freek_20
Student Julieta Grigoryan, DM to: @julietas_beautycorner

It is also possible to attend a walk-along day, tour, or open house. You can find all activities in our calendar.