The MSc International Business has two starts a year — September and February — with fixed deadlines that differ for EU and non-EU applicants. For a September start the deadlines are 1 May (non-EU/EEA) and 1 June (EU/EEA); for a February start they are 1 November and 1 December respectively. So the February 2027 intake closes on 1 November 2026 (non-EU/EEA) and 1 December 2026 (EU/EEA), and the September 2027 intake on 1 May 2027 and 1 June 2027. These dates recur each cycle — confirm the exact round on the school's admission page.
Maastricht University runs 4 application rounds , 2 of which it has published for the cycle shown. Earlier rounds generally carry higher acceptance odds and earlier scholarship visibility.
| Round | Deadline |
|---|---|
| February 2027 intake — non-EU/EEA | 1 November 2026 |
| February 2027 intake — EU/EEA | 1 December 2026 |
| September 2027 intake — non-EU/EEA | 1 May 2027 indicative — not published by the school |
| September 2027 intake — EU/EEA | 1 June 2027 indicative — not published by the school |
2 of the 4 dates above are ours, not Maastricht University's. An indicative date is one the school had not published for this cycle when we last checked, so we projected it from the rounds it runs each year — or, for a school that admits on a rolling basis and publishes no rounds at all, it marks roughly when applying still makes sense. Treat it as a date to confirm, not one to plan against. The other 2 are confirmed against the school's official admissions page.
What we checked, and when. Two starts a year. The February 2027 dates are published and confirmed on Maastricht's own admission page (checked 28 Aug 2026): applications open via Studielink from 1 July 2026, close 1 November 2026 for non-EU/EEA applicants who need a visa or residence permit and 1 December 2026 for EU/EEA and Swiss nationals, with all MyApplication tasks due 31 January 2027. The September 2027 dates are NOT yet published — that page covers academic year 2026-2027 only — so the 1 May / 1 June rounds shown are projected from the pattern Maastricht repeats each cycle. All deadlines fall at 23:59 CET.
Frequently asked questions
When are the Maastricht MSc International Business deadlines?
Sources
- FT Masters in Management 2025 — SBE #1 Netherlands, names the MSc International Business ↗ — Maastricht University
- MSc International Business — tuition fees (statutory & institutional). Re-read at source 2026-09-03 and the figures confirmed exactly: academic year 2025/26 statutory €2,601 and institutional €21,400; academic year 2026/27 statutory €2,694 and institutional €21,500; part-time not applicable in either year. INTAKE LABEL CHECKED: those are the only two years published — there is NO 2027/28 schedule — so 2026/27 is the latest Maastricht publishes and it prices the year before the intake this profile's rounds admit to. The stored non-EU figure was carried as ~€21,500 and is exactly €21,500, so the approximation has been dropped. ROUTE NOTE: this page renders navigation-only to WebFetch (the standing JS-gated negative recorded for Maastricht); a browser-UA curl returns the full 590 KB document with the fee table in the source, which is how it was read ↗ — Maastricht University
- MSc International Business — application & admission deadlines (re-checked 28 Aug 2026; page covers academic year 2026-2027 only. February 2027 start: Studielink opens "as soon as possible after 1 July 2026"; 1 November 2026 non-EU/EEA; 1 December 2026 EU/EEA or Swiss; 1 January 2027 recommended fee payment; 31 January 2027 all MyApplication tasks. September 2027 dates NOT yet published) ↗ — Maastricht University
- GMAT and GRE tests for application (SBE) — minimum scores & exemptions ↗ — Maastricht University
- Financial Times — Masters in Management 2025 ↗ — Financial Times
- Maastricht University — MSc International Business (Strategy and Innovation): admission requirements. INTERVIEW CHECKED 2026-09-03: no interview appears anywhere in the published process. The required-documents list is a grades transcript, a copy of the diploma if obtained, a CV, a motivation letter of "about 1 or 2 pages" giving "good arguments for why you want to do this master's programme at Maastricht University", a separate description of every statistics course taken in the bachelor, a passport photo and ID. Read from the raw HTML with a browser user agent — WebFetch renders this page navigation-only, which is the standing Maastricht blocker recorded in the queue, and the browser-UA route clears it ↗ — Maastricht University
- Maastricht University — English language requirement SBE. ENGLISH EVIDENCE ATTEMPTED 2026-09-06 (P33c, Dutch leg) and RECORDED AS A NEGATIVE, with the family named rather than guessed. The page opens with a browser user agent (HTTP 200; the central /support/your-studies-begin/admission-registration/language-requirements path 403s to both WebFetch and browser-UA curl), but everything it opens with is this, verbatim and in full: 'Since this (pre-)master's programme is taught in English, you must have a thorough verbal and written command of English. We accept TOEFL and IELTS tests as proof of your English proficiency. Please note that you have to prepare and register for these exams yourself. Answer the questions below to find out if you meet the language requirements*' with the footnote '*only for SBE (pre-)master's programmes'. The rules themselves sit behind that questionnaire and are assembled in the browser — no thresholds, no country list, no medium-of-instruction clause and no exemption text is server-rendered anywhere on the page. This is the INTERACTIVE FORM APP family already recorded for KU Leuven's tuition-fee application-windows lookup, not the WAF family and not a moved URL. So Maastricht is the one Dutch school in this catalogue whose English exemption rule this site has NOT read, and nothing about it is asserted here. Aggregator summaries of a Board-of-Admissions medium-of-instruction discretion exist; none of them is the school, and none is used ↗ — Maastricht University