Contract Education

You can apply by filling in the webform for contract students. We advise you to complete your registration at least 6 weeks before the start of the course in order to be assured of timely access to the digital learning environment.

Once you have completed the application form, you will receive an invoice for contract education. The Education Office of the Faculty of Science will ensure that you get access to the digital learning environment of the course.

Before you apply, pay close attention to the following:

• Check the study guide to see if the course of your interest is available for contract education. You can see this when the left-hand section -  under the heading ‘Target groups’ - contract education is mentioned.
• The faculty maintains the right to declare applicants for contract education inadmissible based on a failure to pay for previously requested contract education which was either not completed or cancelled after the deadline.

Included in the costs are: participation in classes, support by the lecturer, use of the computer facilities, partaking in the (mid-term) exams and resit(s) resulting in one final result.

You will not receive a student card and proof of enrollment as a contract student.

The costs of contract education are € 185 per study point. Below you can find an overview.

You will receive an invoice which will have to be paid within 30 days. It is not possible to pay in terms.  

In case no payment has been received after 30 days your registration will be cancelled. Cancellation is possible until at the latest 10 working days before the course starts. After this restitution of the course costs is no longer possible. In case of timely cancellation administration costs of € 50 will be charged.

Should you wish to resit the course in a new academic year, a new contract will have to be created with the related costs.

After taking the exam, the result will generally appear on VU.nl within 15 working days. From that moment on you can request a transcript via the Student Desk. 

PhD students from inside and outside VU regularly take part in Beta Bachelor's and Master's courses. Below, you will find more information on the Beta Faculty's regulations regarding tuition fees.

VU PhDs can take contract courses on the basis of free education.

These PhD students are registered in the system as 0-contract students, as long as they do not take more than 30 EC of regular education.

It is important here that the Faculty of Science department head is informed of the interest by the lecturer or the project leader of the partnership with the VU.

• If there is a partnership with another educational institution, no payment will be made. This requires a written confirmation from the lecturer or project leader of the partnership with VU to prove this. This confirmation is submitted to the Beta department head.
• If no partnership exists, the standard contract tuition procedure applies. See above under costs and payment for more information.