ITC Enschede
Established | 1950 |
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Location | , 52°14′17.93″N 6°51′13.45″E / 52.2383139°N 6.8537361°E |
Successor | University of Twente |
Website | http://www.itc.nl/ |
The International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) was an institute of higher (tertiary) education located in
History and mission
ITC was founded in 1950 with the name "International Training Centre for
Education at ITC
More than 19,000 students from over 170 countries have followed ITC courses since 1950. The institute's degrees are accredited by the Dutch system of higher education.
ITC offers degree, diploma and certificate courses in geo-information science and earth observation applied to eight domains: Disaster management; Earth sciences; Geoinformatics; Governance; Land administration; Natural resources; Urban planning; and Water resources.
ITC has several joint educational programmes with partner institutes in the developing world, for example joint MSc programmes in geoinformatics with the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing in Dehradun, India and Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It also offers much of its curriculum as distance education modules, and offers custom training courses to meet specific capacity building requirements, both in Enschede and abroad.
Notable alumni
- Siti Nurbaya Bakar, 1988, Indonesia
- Wilber Otichilo, 1982, Kenya
- Vishnu Nandan, 2012, MOSAiC
- Daryll Mathew, 2000, Antigua and Barbuda
- Amon Murwira, 2003, Zimbabwe