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Terminating your studies

If you're planning to end your studies and terminate your enrolment at Maastricht University (UM), whether you're graduating or leaving for other reasons, there are several important steps you must take. These steps are detailed below.  

1. Submit a disenrolment request to Studielink

Whether you are graduating or ending your studies for another reason, you must submit a request to disenrol (i.e. terminate your enrolment), via Studielink. It’s crucial to submit this request as soon as you complete your final assignment, thesis or exam. Your enrolment will be terminated the month after Maastricht University receives your request for disenrolment from Studielink. If you graduate without disenrolling, it could impact the tuition fees you owe. 

Note: it is not possible to disenrol with retroactive effect in Studielink. For example, if you submit a request on 12 December to disenrol as of 1 November, this will be rejected by Studielink. 
If you disenrol for graduation, this is slightly different: you will be deregistered on your graduation date as entered into the system by the faculty. This does mean that you may be deregistered retroactively. So always stop your OV and study financing as soon as you have met all your exam requirements. 

Your request will subsequently be sent to Maastricht University and processed. On the ‘My Studielink’ page you can track the status of your request via ‘My messages’ and ‘My study programmes (Status)’. 

Once UM has confirmed your disenrolment, your status in Studielink will show as ‘De-registered’. 

2. Stop your student finance and cancel your student travel product

If you are no longer enrolled as a student at a Dutch institution for higher education, you must stop any student finance and cancel any travel products you receive. If you do not receive these, you can skip this step. 

  • Stopping your student finance: Disenrolling does not automatically stop your student finance. You need to stop your student finance via the DUO website, either effective immediately or from a future date.
  • Cancelling your student travel product: You must manually cancel your student travel product at a pick-up device by the 10th day of the month following your last month of eligibility. However, you may no longer travel with your student travel product from the first day of that month. Using the travel product beyond this period could result in fines from DUO.  


For example, if August is the last month in which you are eligible for the student travel product, you must stop travelling with the product by 1 September and cancel it by 10 September at the latest. 

Maastricht University does not accept claims for any fines incurred if you do not disenrol via Studielink, stop your student finance and/or cancel your student travel product by the deadlines. 

3. Check for possible reimbursement of excess tuition fees

If you disenrol, either temporarily or permanently, you may be reimbursed for a portion of the tuition fees you have paid. For every month of the academic year for which you are no longer enroled, you will get back 1/12 of your annual tuition fees. 

  • If you paid in instalments, the direct debits will be discontinued upon disenrolment.
  • If you disenrol as of 1 July or 1 August, you are not entitled to reimbursement of the tuition fees paid for these months (see UM’s Enrolment Provisions). You can choose not to disenrol for the months of July and August. Click here for more information.
  • If you are enroled as an external student and decide to disenrol, your exam fees will not be reimbursed. 

Questions about reimbursement of your tuition fees? 

Contact the Finance Department (Debiteurenadministratie) at: 
 
+ 31 (0)43 388 4752
tuitionfeepayment@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Monday to Friday,  08.00 – 12.00 CET

4. Moving abroad? Deregister from your municipality

If you are leaving the Netherlands and moving abroad, it is important to deregister from your municipality. This helps you avoid municipal taxes that can be charged if you ever decide to move back into the Netherlands and avoid complications for your roommates or future tenants at your address. 

You can deregister from the Municipality of Maastricht online.