Tio Business School wants to set itself apart with the core values of personal, excellent and entrepreneurial education. It is Tio's mission to optimally guide young people during their development and help them lay a strong foundation for a successful professional career.
Learning by doing and quality are key aspects of Tio’s education. By listening to students and businesses, Tio manages to regularly implement changes in its education throughout the academic year. Tio’s focus on quality results in satisfied students.
Tio Business School
At Tio Business School students become ambitious young professionals and true world citizens. Students are provided with all the tools they need to realise their personal ambitions and dreams.
Tio has been the market leader in higher education in the Netherlands for the past twelve years. We have outstanding Bachelor’s, Associate degrees and Master's of Business Administration programmes within the fields of business, entrepreneurship, marketing, hospitality & tourism.
By offering personal, excellent and entrepreneurial education that is tailored to the individual, Tio offers the prospect of a future that matches everyone's ambition. We offer personal guidance from professional lecturers and study coaches, and in this way, Tio is able to cater individually to the student.
Tio’s study programmes are developed together with the business community, which makes our education distinctive and practice-oriented. Because Tio’s lecturers have relevant practical experience, often with their own businesses next to teaching, knowledge is transferred by the experts. This keeps the lessons relevant and up-to-date, and the quality of education high. Due to (inter)national opportunities and experiences, Tio’s students grow into global citizens who dare to reach beyond their own capabilities by learning to maximize their unique skills and assets.
In short: the road to success starts at Tio, the best Business School in the Netherlands.
Quality
Its national organisation allows Tio to focus on the quality and innovation of its education. A team of education experts is hard at work every day to safeguard the quality of Tio’s education and to develop appealing and up-to-date study programmes. Tio’s in-house software specialists ensure that our systems are up to date and perform optimally.
Accreditation by NVAO
Tio's bachelor’s degrees have been accredited by the Dutch-Flemish Accreditation Organisation (NVAO). The NVAO is an independent binational accreditation organisation that was established by the Dutch and Flemish governments to expertly and objectively evaluate the quality of higher education in the Netherlands and Flanders. The NVAO’s tasks and methods are recorded in legislation. Its main duties involve the evaluation and safeguarding of the level and quality of the higher education in the Netherlands and Flanders and the improvement of the quality culture that exists in the higher education sector.
Quality assurance
Quality assurance
Tio University of Applied Sciences has a NEN-EN ISO 9001:2008 quality certification. This reaffirms that Tio’s education and organisation are of the highest quality. The ISO quality certification has been renewed for a period of three years. NRTO certification
Recognition for quality and professionalis
Since late August of 2016, Tio University of Applied Sciences is one of the first to earn the new NRTO certification. In the education sector, this NRTO certification is a hallmark of quality and professionalism. It gives consumers and businesses assurance when they select an educational institution. The new certification demonstrates that Tio is transparent about its products and services, offers adequate services, exhibits professionalism in its dealings with clients, has knowledgeable staff and measures the satisfaction of its clients.
An independent and externally certified organisation measures whether one meets the quality requirements. The NRTO certification is awarded by the Dutch Council for Training and Education (NRTO), the branch association for private educational institutions.(International) partnerships
Tio’s history
For more than half a century, Tio has been a market leader in education and business. Tio was founded in 1969 (as a Tourism Education College). The explosive growth of the tourism sector in the late 1960s led to an enormous need for educated employees.
Tio continued as a private educational institution, with an increased market-oriented focus in the 1980’s, offering Bachelor degrees. Under the leadership of then Tio director Mark Duthler (1991-2020), Tio acquired the AVR Vocational School ('93) and the AVV Vocational School ('94), and later also hospitality training provider named Tunon ('97).
Tio continued to expand, with hotel management programmes and, from 2012, business programmes. From those years, the focus on business education has increased. Since 2020, Tio has also offered higher educational Associate degrees and a Masters of Business Administration. This business focus has allowed Tio to use the name Tio Business School from 2023, underlining its character and ambitions.
In 2020, the company changed ownership to Salta Group, a group of companies that is the largest private educational institute in the Benelux with more than 25 labels. After the acquisition, day-to-day management has been in the hands of managing director Katinka Reuling (2020-2023). From the 1st of January 2024, Frans van Kreuningen took over management of Tio as managing director.
