Wittenborg University is an international University of Applied Sciences. The University is situated in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, and known in Dutch as Hogeschool Wittenborg (HBO). Wittenborg positions itself as a European Business School, offering its programmes of International Business Administration in English and also Dutch. Wittenborg University is appointed (in Dutch 'aangewezen') by the Netherlands government, which means that the school falls under the regulations and laws of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (Netherlands), including the Ministry Inspectorate. Founded in 1987, in the Dutch hanseatic city of Deventer, by local businessman H. Nijkamp the school became known for its (Dutch language) degree programmes in Banking and Insurance and Real Estate management, providing these industries in the Netherlands with hundreds of graduates. Its main source of students in the late eighties and early nineties was military personnel leaving the armed forces due to the abolition of national service in the Netherlands.