University of Twente is a young, entrepreneurial research university. We are pioneers in fusing technology, science and engineering with social sciences. we call this High Tech Human Touch. Our excellent research and education initiates change, progress and renewal for worldwide challenges: intelligent manufacturing systems, digital society, resilient world, personalized healthcare technologies and smart materials. 

The cross-disciplinary way of working that characterizes our university opens up unexpected possibilities - especially in combination with creativity and excellence fields as biomedical engineering and nanotechnology, IT, robotics and geo-information sciences. Our distinctive educational model, engineering approach and open culture generate new ideas, new energy, new ways forward.

We are a multicultural community of talented, ambitious people with more than 12,000 students, more than 54,000 alumni and 3,300 employees. We have an outstanding track record in value creation, starting up and spinning off new businesses with some 1,000 successful ventures to date.