Requirements for paying the reduced statutory tuition fee
Conditions for reduced tuition fee for the first year
You will only have to pay half of the statutory tuition fee for your first year if:
Students who meet all of the following conditions are entitled to one year (12 consecutive months) halving of the statutory rate:
- students who meet all of the conditions for the statutory fee
- students who start at Dutch higher education for the first time in or after the 2018-2019 academic year
- student who are enrolled in a fulltime or parttime bachelor’s programme (Pre-masters excluded)
Conditions for reduced tuition fee in second year of initial teacher education
You will only have to pay half of the statutory tuition fee for a second year if:
Students who meet all of the following conditions are entitled to two year halving of the statutory rate:
- students who meet all of the conditions for the statutory fee
- students who are entering Dutch higher education for the first time in or after the 2018-2019 academic year
- students enrolled for a teacher’s education.
- A student first qualifies for a second year halving of tuition fees in the academic year of 2021-2022
- A student who attends a teacher’s education has the right to a maximum of two years halving of tuition fees.
This means that when a student has a Bachelor's degree in teacher’s education and has already been granted two years of
halving tuition fees, the student is not entitled for another year of halving of the tuition fees when attending a Master teacher’s education.
For more information, frequently asked questions and the infographic, you can have a look at the website of the Dutch government.
Examples halving of tuition fee
You are entitled to 12 months (in the case of following a teacher education, 24 months) consecutive halving of the tuition fee. This means that when you quit your study in the meantime there is a chance that when you resume the study or choose a new study, you have no right to continue the halving of tuition fees.In the examples below you can see when you do have the right to halving of tuition fee or when you lose your rights.
*You are entitled to the second year of halving tuition fee when starting a Master teacher education per the academic year 2021-2022 as you are also only entitled to halving tuition fee when starting the prior Bachelor study per the academic year of 2018-2019. Starting the Master earlier means you have started the Bachelor before the academic year of 2018-2019, which does not entitle you to any halving of tuition fee.
Rates for reduced statutory tuition fee
Instalment fees academic year 2020-2021
Intake moment September
Tuition fee | Tuition fee | Instalment 11) | Instalment 2 | Instalment 3 | Instalment 4 | Instalment 5 |
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Statutory fulltime | € 1,071.00 | € 238.20 | € 214.20 | € 214.20 | € 214.20 | € 214.20 |
Statutory fee Atlas* | € 3,214.00 | € 666,80 | € 642,80 | € 642,80 | € 642,80 | € 642,80 |
The rate for the halved tuition fees for the academc year of 2021-2022 is set at €1,084 for the regular programme and at € 3,252 for ATLAS. *For the AtTLAS programme the halving of tuition fees only applies to the first part of the statutory tuition fee, the rate will then be: 1/2x statutory fees + 1x statutory fees.
Intake moment February
If you enroll from 1 February 2021 you will pay the tuition fee in two instalments.
Tuition fee | Tuition fee | Instalment 11) | Instalment 2 |
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Statutory fulltime | € 624.75 | € 336.38 | € 312.38 |
Statutory fee Atlas | € 1,250.08 | € 649.04 | € 625.04 |
Please note: Each instalment covers a payment period of 2.4 month and not 3 months until the next instalment.
1) The first instalment is raised with € 24.00 administration costs