Every OMPT-accepting university and the score each one wants
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Short answer
More than 45 institutions accept the OMPT, but only a handful publish an exact minimum score. The verified numbers: Maastricht's School of Business and Economics benchmarks 75% (OMPT-A for business programmes, OMPT-B for Econometrics), and Erasmus University College and UvA's PPLE both require at least 70% on OMPT-A. Most other programmes state a variant and confirm the bar by email. The table below gathers what is published, marks the rest as typical mappings, and tells you exactly what to ask admissions when your row is blank.
I built this table because the information exists in forty different places and students were assembling it badly, one browser tab at a time, usually the week before booking. One warning before you read it: this is a planning aid, checked September 2026 against university admission pages and omptest.org, and admission requirements change between intake years. Where a cell says "confirm with admissions", that is an instruction, not a shrug.
The master table
| University | Programme(s) | Variant | Minimum score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maastricht University | International Business; Economics and Business Economics | OMPT-A | 75% benchmark (published) |
| Maastricht University | Econometrics and Operations Research; Business Analytics; Business Engineering | OMPT-B | 75% benchmark (published) |
| Erasmus University College | Liberal Arts and Sciences | OMPT-A | minimum 70% (published) |
| University of Amsterdam | PPLE | OMPT-A | minimum 70% (published) |
| NHH Norwegian School of Economics | Economics and business administration | OMPT-F | set per programme; confirm with admissions |
| Tilburg University | Quantitative and computing programmes | OMPT-D (typical) | confirm with admissions |
| University of Groningen | Science and engineering programmes | OMPT-D (typical) | confirm with admissions |
| LUT University | Science and technology programmes | OMPT-G | confirm with admissions |
| Arcada University of Applied Sciences | Science-track programmes | OMPT-G | confirm with admissions |
| Psychology and social-science programmes (various) | Statistics-heavy first years | OMPT-E (typical) | confirm with admissions |
| Applied-sciences programmes (various) | Basic maths proficiency requirements | OMPT-C (typical) | confirm with admissions |
Checked September 2026. Rows marked "typical" reflect the usual variant mapping for that kind of programme, not a published rule; the exact requirement always lives on your programme’s admission page or in your conditional offer.
Why so few published numbers?
Because the OMPT reports a percentage and deliberately leaves the judgment to institutions, every programme is free to draw its own line, publish it or not, and move it between intake years. The big Dutch business intakes publish theirs, which is why the A and B rows of the table look confident. Smaller programmes, and most of those using the C, E and G, prefer the word "sufficient" on their websites and a concrete number in reply to an email. This annoys students and I have some sympathy for the universities: a published cutoff becomes a target, and placement testing works better as a measurement than as a limbo bar.
The practical consequence is a two-line email you should send today if your row is blank: "Which OMPT variant does [programme] require, and what minimum score?" Add a question about how many attempts they accept, since that policy also varies and matters for your booking arithmetic. Answers typically arrive within days, and the reply is the only version of the requirement that binds anyone. Screenshot it into your prep folder.
Reading the table as a study plan
A cutoff is a target, and targets set training loads. Against Maastricht's 75%, my booking rule of a ten-point practice margin means mocks at 85% before you pay, which for the B's 226-topic syllabus is a genuinely demanding standard; the four-week B plan exists for exactly that climb. A 70% bar at EUC or PPLE on the shorter A syllabus is friendlier, and a strong student can reach the 80% practice standard in four focused weeks. For unpublished cutoffs, prepare against 70% as a working assumption; it sits in the middle of the published range, and the score estimator will place your practice results against the typical bands per variant while you wait for the email that pins yours down.
Notice too what the table implies about identical percentages. Maastricht's 75% on the B is a materially harder demand than a 75% would be on the A, because the same number sits on a wider, deeper syllabus at the same pace. Cutoffs measure position within your variant, and comparing your percentage with a friend preparing a different letter is a reliable way to feel wrongly good or wrongly terrible.
If your university is not in the table
The table lists the institutions with published or well-established OMPT arrangements; the full partner list on omptest.org runs past 45 and grows. If your offer names the OMPT and your university is missing above, nothing is wrong. The procedure is unchanged: the offer letter names the variant, admissions confirms the score, and your preparation runs through the same tests, topics and planner as everyone else's. And if your offer names a variant with no published cutoff anywhere, take that as quiet good news: programmes that do not publish a bar are usually checking readiness rather than running a competition. Prepare to the 80% practice standard and the question answers itself.