Terminating your studies

Whether you are graduating or terminating your studies for some other reason, you must submit your request to de-register via Studielink. You must submit this request as soon as you submit your final assignment or thesis or sit your final exam. Your registration will be terminated the month after Maastricht University received your request or deregistration. If you graduate without de-registering, this may have consequences for the tuition fees you are required to pay.

Please note: It is not possible to de-register with retroactive effect in Studielink. If you submit a request on 12 December to de-register as of 1 November, this will be rejected in Studielink.

Go to Studielink to submit your request to de-register   

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 de-registration, your status in Studielink will show up as <De-registered>.

Read more about deregistering via Studielink   

You must stop your student travel product at a pick-up device. Stop your student travel product no later than the tenth day of the month in which you are no longer eligible for it. You may no longer travel with your student travel product from the first day of that month. If you use your student travel product when you are no longer eligible for one, DUO will give you a transport fine. 

Example: if August is the last month in which you are eligible for the student travel product, you must cancel your student travel product by September 10 at the latest.

Please note: Maastricht University does not accept claims for any fines incurred if you do not de-register on time via Studielink, terminate your study financing and/or cancel your student travel card on time.

Read more about stopping your student travel product   

If you de-register, either temporarily or permanently because you have graduated, you may be reimbursed a portion of the tuition fees you have paid. For every month of the academic year for which you are no longer registered, you receive 1/12 of your tuition fee back.

• If you are registered as an external student and decide to de-register, your exam fees will not be reimbursed.

• Did you pay in instalments? In this case, the direct debits will be discontinued.

• Did you de-register as of 1 July or 1 August? You are not entitled to reimbursement of the tuition fees paid for these months; to this end we refer you to UM’s Enrolment Provisions. Alternatively, you can choose not to de-register for the months of July and August. Click here for more information.

Questions about the reimbursement of tuition fees?

Send an email to: tuitionfeepayment@maastrichtuniversity.nl