What level of education does my profession have in the Netherlands?

In the overview below you will find under which education level your profession falls. This can be helpful, for example, in determining which language level you must meet.

Senior Secondary Vocational Education (MBO) professions

  • Pharmacy assistant
  • Nurse
  • Individual healthcare carers

Higher Professional Education (HBO) professions

  • Dietician
  • Occupational therapist
  • Physiotherapist
  • Dermatologist
  • Speech therapist
  • Oral hygienist
  • Remedial therapist
  • Optometrist
  • General remedial educationalist
  • Orthoptist
  • Physician assistant
  • Podiatrist
  • Radio diagnostic laboratory technician
  • Radio therapeutic technician
  • Dental prosthetist
  • Midwife

Academic or Scientific education professions (WO)

  • Pharmacist
  • Doctor
  • Doctor of Psychology
  • Clinical physicist
  • Clinical technologist
  • Psychotherapist
  • Dentist

You can go to the Dutch overview for the Dutch terms.