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Welcome to the admission procedure for your course at the Royal Conservatoire.
Every step of the registration procedure is described and explained below and all you have to do is complete each step in the process. Clicking on the + will reveal additional information. When you click on Studielink you will leave our website. After applying you will receive an e-mail from Studielink with a link to Osiris Online Application, which is part of our Student Administration System. You will upload all the requested documents to that page. If you have any questions during the process, please contact the student administration office at firstname.lastname@example.org.
The deadline for uploading documents via Osiris Apply is February 28 at 11:59 PM (CET).
Studielink is the online registration system for higher education in the Netherlands. When you register, you will also automatically be registered with DUO (Dienst Uitvoerend Onderwijs), the agency that arranges student financing, among other things.
- If you are a Dutch student, log on with your DigiD. If you do not yet have one, it can be requested at www.digid.nl. It could be several days before you receive the log-in codes.
- If you are an international student, log on with a user name and password that you will be able to create for yourself in Studielink.
- Apply for the course of your choice (the first step in your ‘to do’ list) under Royal Academy of Art/Royal Conservatoire The Hague. Complete each step in the screen. Detailed instructions and help with the process is available on the website of Studielink.
Note: you will now leave the website of the Royal Conservatoire. You are not done with the admission process after registering with Studielink. Please read the further instructions below first.
Start by collecting all the documents you will need to register for your entrance exam and your course.
- Recordings (see below)
- Motivation form (see below)
- Master Project Plan/Master Study Plan (see below)
- Curriculum vitae
- Check the entry requirements on the programme page of your choice (e.g. Bachelor Classical Music Flute or Master Jazz Guitar ) to get an idea of the level/works we are looking for.
- Make recordings on video. These videos should showcase your musical and technical level and abilities. Put the recordings on YouTube/Vimeo.
- Create a Word/PDF document with a list of the repertoire and all the activated links.
You will upload the Word/PDF document at the appropriate question in Osiris Apply later in the process.
Answer the questions in the motivation form and upload the document in Osiris Apply.
You are required to write a realistic Master Project Plan. Please refer to the guidelines document.
Master Project Plan Guidelines for Classical Music, Early Music, Jazz, Vocal Studies, Conducting (excl NMO), New Audiences and Innovative Practice (NAIP), Composition, Art of Sound, The Musician Educator.
You can also find these guidelines in the Entry Requirements section of the individual programme page.
When you arrive at the Osiris Online Application website the first thing you have to do is select a language (Dutch or English). You then log on with the log-in details that were sent to you. Note: you should immediately change your password.
You have already collected all the documents you need during step 1 so you can now upload them all at once to Osiris.
When you have logged on to Osiris Online Application, answer the questions that appear. Some questions must be answered (or a document has to be uploaded) and they are marked with an asterisk. Other documents can be uploaded after you have been admitted to a course, but they must also be uploaded before you commence your studies.
If you are unable to upload all of the requested documents immediately, we will send you an occasional reminder.
You can save your answers as you proceed. For your application for admission to become final you must not only save the questions in Osiris Online Application, but also click on ‘Send’.
The entrance exam consists of a practical exam and an oral discussion of your Master Project or Master Study Plan.
The entrance exam consists of two rounds:
- an online pre-selection
- an audition
In order to qualify for an admission at the Royal Conservatoire, you have to pass all parts of your entrance exam. The entry requirements of your Main Subject can be found on the programme page of the programme you have chosen. Find all programmes here: https://www.koncon.nl/en/programmes
For more information regarding the dates and specifications of the entrance exams, please also check: koncon.nl/entrance-exams.
After the entrance exam
A couple of weeks after the entrance exam, we will send you your results. There are three categories: ‘Rejected’, ‘Eligible’ and ‘Accepted.
‘Eligible’ means that your level is sufficiently high to be admitted to the Royal Conservatoire, but that it is not yet certain whether we can actually offer you a spot due to a limited amount of spots in each programme.
Only candidates that have been ‘Accepted’ to the Royal Conservatoire have a guaranteed spot in the programme of their choice.
Bachelor’s and Master’s students and participants in a Preparatory Course must have sufficient command of both written and spoken English to follow their study programme at the Royal Conservatoire.
Students from EU/EEA countries or Switzerland or Surinam whose proficiency in English is inadequate are obliged to follow a language course. If it is found during the admission procedure that your command of English is insufficient, you will be required to follow a course and obtain a certificate of proficiency during the first year of the course.
If you have been admitted for a Bachelor’s or Master’s programme or Preparatory Course and you are from a country outside the EU/EEA (with exception of Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, South Africa, Surinam, Switzerland, United Kingdom of Great Britain or United States of America), you must demonstrate – before 1 September - that your level of English is sufficient to follow the study programme. You can demonstrate your command of English with your score on any of the following English language proficiency tests: IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC or Cambridge English (FCE/CAE/CPE). The test scores are valid for two years and your score must be valid as of 1 September.
The minimum standard is a score of 6.0 in the IELTS test or level 80 in the TOEFL.
Certificates from the Institutional TOEFL test, the TOEFL ITP test or other language proficiency tests will not be accepted.
If you are admitted, you must ensure that all the necessary documents are submitted.
Non-EU/EEA students who have been admitted to a Bachelor’s or Master’s programme or Preparatory Course have to submit the proof of their English language proficiency (see step English proficiency) before 1 September.
If you are admitted you will receive information via e-mail and Studielink about payment of tuition fees.
Only when you have fulfilled all registration requirements will you be enrolled as a student. So make sure that you have submitted all requested documents before 1 September.
Non-EU/EEA students who are admitted to the programme they applied for need an entry visa and/or residence permit. You also need to make other practical arrangements before you come to the Netherlands and when you arrive here. Please check the website for international students coming to the Netherlands for all procedures, information and contact info.