We believe student experience and automation go hand-in-hand

Students are online savvy and love to discover and find out by themselves.
Universities and educational programmes spend a lot of time to target, advice and support qualified (prospective) students and advise, inform and reject non-qualified students.

That is why we created the student self-check, so that students get a personal, automated advise about their eligibility based on their personal pre-education and without going through long information and requirements pages.
So that higher education institutes can target and follow up on eligible students and advise the non-eligibile (yet) students about alternative programmes and/orhow to become eligible.
So that educational programmes can advice non-eligible students before application about the alternative educational programmes at their or another university.

Redefine Sense & Simplicity

Digitalize to become more personal

Education is a powerful weapon

We understand, as former employee of Philips, the power of sense and simplicity. We use it as our key principle in building and developing our student eligibility technology.
Everything we do must make sense for students, universities ánd society. Everything less is non-sense. We keep it simple by focussing on and being specialized in just one simple question: “Am I qualified?” Our easy student eligibility technology is fully build on this principle.

Digitalize and become personal sounds like a paradox. But isn’t. The pressure on HE educational (supporting) staff has grown and will further grow given the increasing number of education, exchange and double-degree programmes and changes to the curriculums.
Our motive with our technology is to digitalize the eligibility question and provide the student recruiters, administrators and advisors with valuable data to focus their valuable time on the right students.

We fully believe in what Nelson Mandela said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. Education is the key to personal and social progress.
With our student eligibility technology we want to support universities to attract and advise talented people to make one of the most important choices in their life.

Arjan Burgers
Co-founder and CEO

Rick Ermen
Co-founder and CTO

I am the co-founder and CEO of Student Self-Check. Since my MSc studies in Economics at Maastricht University and my internship at the Center for Customer-Driven Quality at Purdue University, USA, I have always been working on customer service and providing excellent customer and student experiences. I only believe in services if they are meaningful and make sense to three stakeholders. For the user or customer of the service. For the organization providing the service and for the society where the service is located.

I am enormously proud that together with Rick I have been able to develop a service platform that makes sense for prospective students, higher education institutes (HEIs) as well as for society. Prospective students get within 5 minutes a clear answer to their eligibility question. HEI marketeers get highly qualified and motivated leads for a fraction of their marketing budget and HEI admission officers get qualified and better-informed applicants. For society, SSC ensures that (young) people can more easily orient themselves towards an education that suits them and that promotes exchange between people with diverse backgrounds.

In my role as co-founder and CTO of Student Self-Check, I'm responsible for the product technology and product innovation using cuttting-edge digital technologies to ensure a seamless user experience. During my studies Communication Technology a lot of attention was paid to the subject human interaction in relation to new technologies. Innovation should work for the user, not against the user. So let's see how AI can work for us...

Since 1999 I'm working as an intermediar between software development and end-users to create software solutions with added value. Together with Arjan we have designed and developed a service platform for higher edication institutes to create added value for international students, marketing officers and admission officers. Every user of this platform can benefit from the added value in their own way. Prospective students can easily check if they are eligible, which improves the student experience. Marketing gains real-time insight into qualified leads to improve the student journey. Admission can concentrate on supporting and advising their prospective students, which are more and better informed, to get the right student in the right place.