Tuition fee rates and conditions | Halving tuition fee

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.

Example 1: You have had a previous registration at a HO institution
- You have had a registration at a HO institution before the academic year of 2018 (for example, per September 2016)
- This registration took up to a month, as you have de-enrolled yourself immediately
- You do not have the right to halving of the tuition fees as you already had a registration with a HO institution before the academic year of 2018-2019
Example 2: Consecutive Bachelor education
· You start per February with a Bachelor's degree at an educational institution and will continue studying until September
· Per September you switch to another study (continuous), possibly even to another educational institution and the study continues througout the rest of the year
· You then have the right to 12 months halving tuition from February to January
Example 3: (Temporarily) quitting your Bachelor study
· You start in September with a Bachelor's degree at an educational institution
· You quit your study within 3 months, as of 1 December, of the same academic year
· You request for (re-)enrolment the following academic year, per September
· You will be eligible for 3 months of halving tuition, from September to November. The remaining 9 consecutive months you do not follow a study and you therefore have not used your right to the halving of tuition fees. You cannot take along these months to the new academic year, they will expire.
Example 4: Master teacher education
· You start with a Master teacher education in September 2021-2022*
· You will continue your study for untill the end
· You have the right to halving of tuition fees for 24 consecutive months
Example 5: Transition to teacher education
- You start per September with a Bachelor's programme and finish it after 3 years
- After your bachelor you start with a Master in teacher education
- You have 12 months right to halving tuition fees during the Bachelor's programme
- When you start your Master teacher education you will be entitled to another 12 months of halving tuition fees. In total you will then be entitled to 24 months halving tuition fees
Example 6: Teacher education in addition to another education
- You start by September 2021-2022* with a master teacher education and at the same time you follow another education
- You have only 12 months right to halving tuition fees, you hereby lose your right to a second year halving tuition fees
Example 7: Temporarily quitting your master teacher education
- You start in September 2021-2022 with a teacher education and quit your study on 1 February of the same academic year
- In September of the next academic year you will continue your teacher education until you finish it
- You are entitled to a total of 17 months of halving tuition fees, namely from September to January of the first academic year and during the period from September to August in the second academic year. The 7 months from February to August in the first year, when you have not followed a study and you did not use the right of halving tuition fees, you cannot take along to the next academic year

*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 2020-2021	Instalment 1¹⁾ 30 September	Instalment 2 30 November	Instalment 3 29 January	Instalment 4 31 March	Instalment 5 31 May
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 2020-2021	Instalment 1¹⁾ 31 March	Instalment 2 31 May
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

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