Avans University of Applied Science (Dutch: Avans Hogeschool) is a Dutch vocational university. It is located in three cities: Breda, 's-Hertogenbosch, and Tilburg. The school has 18,000 students studying 40 courses in 18 institutes. There are 1800 employees.
Avans was founded on January 1, 2004 as a union of Hogeschool 's-Hertogenbosch and Hogeschool Brabant in Tilburg, Breda, and Etten-Leur. Hogeschool Brabant itself was a union from 1988 of Hogeschool West-Brabant (Etten-Leur and Breda) and Hogeschool Midden-Brabant (Tilburg).