On April 19, 2021, it was announced that the Celsius student team won three awards in the Solar Decathlon Build Challenge held by United States Department of Energy.

On 1 September 2005, the HvU merged with the polytechnic school in Driebergen (De Horst).

At the same time, the name was changed to Hogeschool Utrecht (HU) and the English (HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht) name was adopted.

In that year, 91% of the teaching staff had a master's degree and 13% had a PhD.

At the end of 2020, 49 professors were working on practice-oriented research.