This is one of the reasons why none of them tend to end in the top tier of international university ranking systems.
[3] Instruction at the undergraduate level tends to be in Dutch, but it is in English for most Masters and PhD programs.
Old habits remain, partly because stopping after a BSc is seen as "dropping out", and a large majority of university students enroll on master's courses.
To confuse matters, students attending Universities of Applied Sciences (HBO) also obtain a bachelor's degree, but the programmes in these institutes usually take four years instead of three.
It is possible to continue after a HBO (Hoger beroepsonderwijs, "higher occupational education") bachelor's degree to a university master's, with often a pre-master deficiency program or other additional requirements on minimum GPA.