Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
DURATION
4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
31 Jul 2024*
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2024
TUITION FEES
EUR 13,750 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* If you need a VISA, you need to apply before March 15th 2024, as we need to send the VISA papers latest May 1 to the immigration office to guarantee your VISA in time (For finalizing your application, your VISA papers, and payment within, we need at least a month and your availability). If you extend the deadline, we cannot guarantee your VISA in time. Students that DO NOT need a VISA can apply until August 1, 2024 (BUT you need to be available for an online introduction, making your motivation, and finalizing your application and payment within a month).
** tuition fees vary depending on the year, we do not offer scholarships
Introduction
Team Academy offers a professional and unique program for students who would like to learn about entrepreneurship,
develop their leadership AND personal skills while working in their own company.
Our program is exciting and challenging and demands flexibility, creativity, hard work, and perseverance.
Are you motivated with an entrepreneurial mindset and a proactive attitude? Do you like to learn how to develop your business and work hard? Come and join us at Team Academy and apply now!
With your guts, hard work, and commitment, we believe that you can turn your interest and passion into an interesting business
We believe that being entrepreneurial is a mindset and a craft you can learn, but not only in a classroom. Becoming an entrepreneur demands entrepreneurial learning. Together with more than 25 Team Academies all over the world, we are empowering an ambitious generation of conscious entrepreneurial minds to make a difference in the world by helping them discover their passions and achieve their goals.
But It Not All About Entrepreneurship
At Team Academy, a University of Applied Sciences, we offer an accredited international Bachelor of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship. However, a great deal of our program also focuses on personal development: reflection, accountability, book reading (of your choice), personal coaching, and being motivated to get out of your comfort zone.
Among many aspects, our program contains:
- Working and learning together in entrepreneurial teams
- Applying theory from entrepreneurial courses into practice (assignments, presentations, and NOT exams)
- Visiting companies and learning from them
- Helping companies with their actual challenges
- Working in your own company and building an entrepreneurial mindset, while developing the skills you need as an entrepreneur
Why Is Our Program Unique?
Our students would like to personally tell you all about this at our introduction events (online or on location), for which you can sign up here.
Want to read more about our uniqueness?
Our method: Guided Self-organized Learning
Team Academy’s learning method is based on the concept of guided, self-organized learning in teams. The teams will have a bi-annual evaluation in which they can thoroughly evaluate themselves, each other, and the team as a whole. As a team, the students make decisions on how best to maximize their educational experience. With the findings of the evaluation, they can then implement these findings into their learning contacts. These learning contracts will create a clear goal and action plan that the student can follow.
In these learning contracts, you write about which specific skills you plan to develop, the books you plan to read, companies you would like to visit, and speakers you would like to invite personally and as a team. This way, you can continue to achieve your goals and personally develop.
A bachelor that is designed to make you accountable and to become the best version of yourself. You’ll be ready for every situation in the 21st century.
How do this work?
Learning by Doing
At Team Academy, you launch your own business or entrepreneurial project during your study. You create real products and services, design your marketing strategy, work with real clients, and earn real profits, by applying everything you learn into practice immediately.
Learning in Teams
Learn in small teams of like-minded entrepreneurs. Participate in workshops and masterclasses, do business, travel the world, and learn and work as a team. Together you’ll improve your communication skills, and creativity, support each other, collaborate, and build a lifelong connection.
Learning From the Best
Our students are supported by a team of coaches, business mentors, and field experts. Our staff includes a combination of high-level educators top professionals and experienced entrepreneurs. We’re proud to have a ratio of 1 staff member to every 3 students.
Learning and Traveling
Every year you’ll travel to different international destinations. Together with your team, you’ll explore countries like Romania, South Africa, the USA, and more. You’ll work with local students and companies, build connections for your business, and join a network of creative Team Academy students.
Events
Open Doors
Our Open Doors, our introduction event, is your first introduction to the school, curriculum, staff, and our students.
It’s a different event than regular open days: it is personal and smaller than you’d expect.
It’s not a walk-in, as we start and end the event together; talk to every attendee; students and team members share their personal experiences, and we have a fun team activity!
Let’s find out if there is a match between you and Team Academy, sign up for our events here!
Student for a day
We are organizing a day for new students in February. Do you want to be a TA student for a day? Join a workshop, a business session, and a 2-hours challenge from an actual business! Join us on February 28th.
You can also reach out and join a team session, business session, or workshop at our location.
What did others say about this?
“I find it interesting to compare this program and other business administration studies. Among what I have seen and learned today and what students tell me, the courses are somewhat the same. Still, the biggest differences I have seen today are the very experienced and professional teachers, the close and motivated classes, and the practical assignments. I got very excited about Team Academy and found it really cool to be able to attend this session.”
We Have an Event Every Month!
We prefer you to have a complete experience on location by talking to our students & staff in person, seeing the students’ projects & businesses, and exploring the school.
However, we organize both on-location and online Open Doors every Academic Year.
You can also directly meet a student to ask all your questions and share experiences. Once you sign up, you’ll receive more information about the event.
Admissions
Curriculum
Year 1 - Start Your Business
Your program begins with a 5-week Learning Journey to Bucharest, Romania, with your team. Why Bucharest? This is a city full of startups, where the entrepreneurial mindset and atmosphere are present every day. While there, you have the opportunity to visit various companies, learn about doing business in Romania, and work together with your team, while earning money for a set goal. Back in Amsterdam, the routine starts: participating in courses, attending team sessions, arranging business meetings, and beginning to work on your company or projects.
Year 2 - Develop Your Business
During your second year, you will continue following courses and attending team sessions to enhance your business skills while working in your company. Again, you will go on a Learning Journey. This year, you and your team will travel to Cape Town, Africa’s biggest startup city. You will prepare this trip together with your team: deciding and arranging which companies you want to visit, what type of workshops you want to organize, and where to complete your 24H challenge.
Year 3 - Grow Your Business
The third year is focused on learning how to scale your business, as well as identifying a specialization to pursue. Throughout the year, you will attend courses to broaden your entrepreneurial knowledge, have opportunities to further develop organizational skills in a group setting, work in leadership roles, and contribute to team sessions. You will choose a destination as a team or as an individual for this year’s Learning Journey, which you will arrange entirely by yourself.
Year 4 - Evaluate Your Business
In the first semester of your final year, you will follow the normal schedule, including courses, team sessions, and minors which are focused on preparing you to do research for and write your bachelor's thesis. The second semester is reserved to finalize your studies individually by writing your thesis. You can write your thesis about your experience in setting up your own company or do research for another company (this can also be done abroad).
During your four years at Team Academy, you will have weekly workshops next to personal & team (business) coaching and mentoring. You can immediately apply everything you learn in the workshops to your business or project.
Below are a number of the courses that you will be taking per year.
Year 1
- Understanding Innovation & Design
- Self Managing Leadership
- Sales & Marketing
- Entrepreneurial Core Theory
- Interculturality
- Finance
- Website and Social Media Platforms
- Project Management
- Law
- Brilliance of Failure
- Business Etiquette
Year 2
- Leadership Elective
- Value Proposition Design
- Building High-Performance Teams
- Effectiveness of Online Channels
- Business model innovation & service design thinking
- Sales & Marketing
- English in Business
- Interactive Communication and Innovation
- Online Planning & Strategy
- Trendwatching
Year 3
- Innovation Leadership
- Advanced Marketing Technologies
- Leadership Strategy
- Interculturality
- Entrepreneurial Core Theory
- Sales & Marketing
- Leadership Elective
- Finance
- Advanced Entrepreneurial Research
- Founders versus Funders
- Advanced Online Planning & Strategy
Year 4
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Entrepreneurial Core Theory
- Law
- Minor Digital Skills
- Leadership Elective
- Personal Evaluation
- Interculturality
- Finance
- Entrepreneurial Research - Thesis Preparation
Program Outcome
The Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Entrepreneurship is an internationally recognized bachelor’s degree. This provides you with the possibility to enroll in any master’s degree (or pre-master’s, depending on the country) upon graduation, as well as numerous professional work opportunities.
This degree allows you to work in a variety of industries. You will come into contact with many different companies and organizations during your studies - all opportunities to build your network and find out what you enjoy doing. Broadly speaking, we educate students for the following positions:
Entrepreneur
During your four years in this entrepreneurial education, you are able to experience what it is like to be an entrepreneur. With the knowledge and skills you learn, you are more than qualified and able to start and grow a business.
An entrepreneur is someone who creates a new business, taking most of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards. An entrepreneur is commonly an innovator, a source of new ideas, goods, services, and business. As an Entrepreneur at Team Academy you can create a startup in almost any sector. Common sectors for Team Academy Students are:
- Real Estate
- Food & Beverage
- Tech
- Marketing & Sales
- Innovation Consultancy
- Business Development
Intrapreneur
In this position, you implement change and innovation in an existing company. At Team Academy, you will learn how to create value in existing businesses by developing skills, such as being proactive, taking responsibility, and being able to work in teams.
An intrapreneur is an employee in charge of developing innovative ideas or projects within a company. Intrapreneurs have access to the resources and capabilities of an existing company. After studying at Team Academy you can work as an intrapreneur in the following roles:
- Sales & marketing manager
- Management consultant
- Innovation Consultant
- Project manager
- Product owner
- Innovation manager
- Creative strategist
And more..
Scholarships and Funding
Team Academy Amsterdam does not offer any scholarships.
Because Team Academy and its Bachelor of Business Administration in
Entrepreneurship is an accredited private HBO/Higher Education, as a Dutch and
International student (if you meet certain requirements, such as having the
nationality of an EU/EEA country, Switzerland or the United Kingdom), you can see if
you meet the requirements and request financial support for your study on DUO.nl.
How to Apply for this DUO Financial Support?
If you meet the requirements (see above), to apply for student financial support (the grant and/or loan), you need
- A citizen service number, in Dutch a ‘burgerservicenummer’ or ‘BSN’. You automatically receive one when you register with a Dutch municipality.
- To apply for DigiD and register at DUO.nl. Our school can be found under Stichting Schoolvision. Because we are a private institution, there is a form about a ‘tuition fee statement’ that our administration office has to sign and stamp once your application is complete. You have to fill in your details, and you have to upload this file in DUO after.
- To complete your application: your contract is signed, an official copy of your original diploma is made at our office, and your downpayment is paid. You do not have to enroll at Studielink, we register you at DUO as our student once the application is complete.
- To apply for the grant and loan yourself.
You can request the grant and the student loan at the same time.
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Career Opportunities
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is someone who creates a new business, taking most of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards. An entrepreneur is commonly an innovator, a source of new ideas, goods, services, and business.As an Entrepreneur at Team Academy you can create a startup in almost any sector. Common sectors for Team Academy Students are:
- Real Estate
- Food & Beverage
- Tech
- Marketing & Sales
- Innovation Consultancy
- Business Development
Intrapreneur
An intrapreneur is an employee in charge of developing innovative ideas or projects within a company. Intrapreneurs have access to the resources and capabilities of an existing company. After studying at Team Academy you can work as an intrapreneur in the following roles:
- Sales & marketing manager
- Management consultant
- Innovation Consultant
- Project manager
- Product owner
- Innovation manager
- Creative strategist
And more