What is PROUD?

PROUD is the honours programme for all the education programs that are parts of Fontys University of applied Sciences Engineering Department. PROUD was founded in 2009 to improve the engineering educations in order to adapt to the changing needs of our technologically diverse society. Since then, many students have graduated from PROUD and are facing a bright future with innovative challenges world wide.

Students that participate in PROUD, PRogramme OUtsanding Development, get the opportunity to development their professional skills by extra-curricular activities which do not provide additional EC’s. After successfully completing the programme, the student will receive an excellence certificate in addition to their bachelor’s degree.

The default duration of the programme is 5 semesters. During these 5 semesters it is expected students will have a workload of approximate 800 hours. That is approximately 5-8 hours work a week.