Tuition fee rates (Pre-)Master's programmes

Tuition fee rates academic year 2025-2026

• Statutory tuition fees 2025-2026

  If you meet all the conditions as stated on the website of DUO, you will pay the statutory tuition fees for academic year 2025-2026.

  Full-time, part-time and dual

  €2.601

• Institutional Fees 2025-2026

  If you do not meet all the conditions for the statutory tuition fee, you will pay the institutional fee for a programme at VU Amsterdam. This also applies to students who take a second funded master's programme after their first master's programme funded by the Dutch government. We also call this the 'second degree rate'. 

  The same fees apply to full-time, part-time and dual programmes.

  See the overview of institutional tuition fees for Master’s programmes 2025-2026

• Fees for pre-master's programmes 2025-2026

  The fees for a pre-master's programme are equivalent to a fee equal to a maximum of a proportional part of the statutory tuition fee. The fee is € 43,37 per EC and € 1.301 for a 30 EC programme.

  Additional information

  • If you follow a bachelor's or master's programme at the statutory rate in addition to your pre-master's programme, you will pay the full statutory tuition fee once.
  • You can pay the fee with a Proof of Paid Tuition Fee (BBC) if you pay the statutory tuition fee at another Dutch higher education institution.
  • There is no right to a refund if you terminate the programme prematurely after completing your enrolment.
  • The costs for the part-time pre-master's programme Accounting & Control differ from the standard pre-master's rates. For more information, please see the programme page.

• Second study programme

  For a 2nd study, you will pay the institutional tuition fee rate equivalent to the statutory tuition fee rate if you:

  • started a 2nd master's programme during the 1st master's programme. You take the second master's programme without interruption. Even after you have completed the 1st master's programme (source: Central Government), or;
  • have completed a master's programme and are following a master's programme in the field of Healthcare or Education for the 1st time (source: Central Government), or;
  • are taking a 2nd VU master's programme immediately after having completed a 1st VU master's programme. Tuition fees will apply for the nominal duration of the 2nd VU master's programme +1 year if statutory tuition fees were payable for the 1st VU master's programme. Exceptions are master's programmes with maximum capacity:
    • M Psychology
    • M Neurosciences (research master)
    • M Geneeskunde
    • M Curating Art and Cultures
    • M Tinbergen Institute Research Master in Economics (joint degree)

  Or;

  • have completed a master's degree in Medicine or an undivided degree in Medicine, are doing PhD research at the VU or UvA, have a written letter of intent from the Department of Oral, Maxillofacial and Maxillofacial Surgery at Amsterdam UMC, and are taking the master's degree in Dentistry.

  Important information:

  • this regulation concerns Bachelor's and Master's degrees obtained at a Dutch educational institution (HBO and WO). Foreign diplomas do not count in this regulation.
  • this regulation does not apply if the degree was awarded before 1 September 1991.
  • any specialisations that fall under one Bachelor's or Master's programme. These have the same ISAT code (also known as programme number) and are therefore considered the same study programme. Have you obtained a degree, and do you want to continue with another specialisation directly in the following academic year? Then you will pay the institutional tuition fee.

• Transitional arrangements

  Non-EEA transitional arrangements for institutional tuition fees for 2024

  Students with a non-EEA nationality for whom the full institutional rate is payable and who were registered for any of the following programmes before 1 September 2024 pay the institutional tuition fees for the 2023-2024 academic year for the official duration of study + one academic year, counted from the time of admission. The fee will be index-linked, annually. 

  • B Artificial Intelligence; B Computer Science. 
  • M Environment and Resource Management; M Health Sciences; M Information Sciences; M Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Sciences; M Behavioural and Movement Sciences; M Artificial Intelligence

  Non-EEA transitional arrangements for institutional tuition fees for 2025

  Students with a non-EEA nationality for whom the full institutional rate is payable and who were registered for a Bachelor’s or Master’s programme on 1 September 2024 pay the institutional tuition fees for the 2024-2025 academic year for the official duration of study + one academic year, counted from the time of admission. The fee will be index-linked, annually.

• Exceptions

  Refugees and undocumented migrants
  Refugees pay the institutional fee equivalent to the statutory fee when:

  • tuition fees are paid by Stichting UAF, or;
  • they are Ukrainian refugees who in academic year 2022-2023 owed the institutional fee equivalent to the statutory rate. The tuition fee applies only for the master's programme started in academic year 2022-2023 and for the nominal duration of the master's programme +1 year.

  Residence permits
  There are 8 types of residence permits with which you pay the statutory tuition fee, subject to conditions:

  • type I: fixed-term regular residence permit (conditional aid);
  • type II: permanent residence permit regular;
  • type III: temporary asylum residence permit;
  • type IV: permanent asylum residence permit;
  • type V: residence permit for long-term resident;
  • type Article 50 TEU: residence document for (family members of) UK nationals subject to the operation of the Withdrawal Agreement (Brexit)
  • EU/EEA type: residence document for community nationals;
  • EU/EEA family member type: residence document for family members of community nationals.

  The Student Administration will assess your eligibility for tuition fee reductions after you send a copy of your residence permit (front and back in PDF format) to studentdesk@vu.nl. Is your residence document based on residence with a family member? Then also send the residence permit of the relative in question (front and back in PDF format) to studentdesk@vu.nl.

Tuition fee rates academic year 2024-2025

• Statutory tuition fees 2024-2025

  If you meet all the conditions as stated on the website of DUO, you will pay the statutory tuition fees for academic year 2024-2025.

  Full-time, part-time and dual

  €2.530,00

• Institutional Fees 2024-2025

  If you do not meet all the conditions for the statutory tuition fee, you will pay the institutional fee for a programme at VU Amsterdam. This also applies to students who take a second funded master's programme after their first master's programme funded by the Dutch government. We also call this the 'second degree rate'. 

  The same fees apply to full-time, part-time and dual programmes.

  See the overview of institutional tuition fees for Master’s programmes 2024-2025..

• Fees for pre-master's programmes 2024-2025

  The fees for a pre-master's programme are equivalent to a fee equal to a maximum of a proportional part of the statutory tuition fee. The fee is €42.17 per EC and €1,265 for a 30 EC programme.

  Additional information

  • If you follow a bachelor's or master's programme at the statutory rate in addition to your pre-master's programme, you will pay the full statutory tuition fee once.
  • You can pay the fee with a Proof of Paid Tuition Fee (BBC) if you pay the statutory tuition fee at another Dutch higher education institution.
  • There is no right to a refund if you terminate the programme prematurely after completing your enrolment.
  • The costs for the part-time pre-master's programme Accounting & Control differ from the standard pre-master's rates. For more information, please see the programme page.

• Second study programme

  For a 2nd study, you will pay the institutional tuition fee rate equivalent to the statutory tuition fee rate if you:

  • started a 2nd master's programme during the 1st master's programme. You take the second master's programme without interruption. Even after you have completed the 1st master's programme (source: Central Government), or;
  • have completed a master's programme and are following a master's programme in the field of Healthcare or Education for the 1st time (source: Central Government), or;
  • are taking a 2nd VU master's programme immediately after having completed a 1st VU master's programme. Tuition fees will apply for the nominal duration of the 2nd VU master's programme +1 year if statutory tuition fees were payable for the 1st VU master's programme. Exceptions are master's programmes with maximum capacity:

  M Psychology

  M Neurosciences (research master)

  M Geneeskunde

  M Curating Art and Cultures

  M Tinbergen Institute Research Master in Economics (joint degree)

  Or;

  • have completed a master's degree in Medicine or an undivided degree in Medicine, are doing PhD research at the VU or UvA, have a written letter of intent from the Department of Oral, Maxillofacial and Maxillofacial Surgery at Amsterdam UMC, and are taking the master's degree in Dentistry.

  Important information:

  • this regulation concerns Bachelor's and Master's degrees obtained at a Dutch educational institution (HBO and WO). Foreign diplomas do not count in this regulation.
  • this regulation does not apply if the degree was awarded before 1 September 1991.
  • any specialisations that fall under one Bachelor's or Master's programme. These have the same ISAT code (also known as programme number) and are therefore considered the same study programme. Have you obtained a degree, and do you want to continue with another specialisation? Then you will pay the institutional tuition fees for the following academic year. 

• Exceptions

  Refugees and undocumented migrants
  Refugees pay the institutional fee equivalent to the statutory fee when:

  • tuition fees are paid by Stichting UAF, or;
  • they are Ukrainian refugees who in academic year 2022-2023 owed the institutional fee equivalent to the statutory rate. The tuition fee applies only for the master's programme started in academic year 2022-2023 and for the nominal duration of the master's programme +1 year.

  Residence permits
  There are 8 types of residence permits with which you pay the statutory tuition fee, subject to conditions:

  • type I: fixed-term regular residence permit (conditional aid);
  • type II: permanent residence permit regular;
  • type III: temporary asylum residence permit;
  • type IV: permanent asylum residence permit;
  • type V: residence permit for long-term resident;
  • type Article 50 TEU: residence document for (family members of) UK nationals subject to the operation of the Withdrawal Agreement (Brexit)
  • EU/EEA type: residence document for community nationals;
  • EU/EEA family member type: residence document for family members of community nationals.

  The Student Administration will assess your eligibility for tuition fee reductions after you send a copy of your residence permit (front and back in PDF format) to studentdesk@vu.nl. Is your residence document based on residence with a family member? Then also send the residence permit of the relative in question (front and back in PDF format) to studentdesk@vu.nl.

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