Tuition fees

To study at a university, you are required to pay tuition. How much you need to pay at Maastricht University (UM) depends on a number of factors, such as which study programme you choose, whether you study full-time or part-time, whether you have a nationality* of a EU/EEA-country, and whether this is your first or second bachelor’s or master’s programme in the Netherlands. If you are eligible for the statutory tuition fee, the Dutch government will contribute significantly to the costs of your education. Students who do not qualify for the statutory tuition fee pay for the degree program themselves by means of the institutional tuition fee. If you have an EU/EEA and a non-EU/EEA nationality and you have registered in Studielink with your EU/EEA nationality, make sure that you also register your EU/EEA nationality first when you register with the municipality. Otherwise the institutional rate may still be charged.

* The United Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) left the European Union on 31 January 2020. This was followed by a transition period up to and including 31 December 2020. The Withdrawal Agreement states that students who hold the British nationality and were already living in the Netherlands with a BPR-registration before 1 January 2021, are allowed to continue paying the statutory tuition fees as long as they continue to live in the Netherlands with that BRP-registration. British nationals who were already living in the Netherlands before 1 January 2021 and are only starting their studies after 31 December 2020 are also eligible for the statutory tuition fees, provided they have not completed a bachelor’s or master’s degree in the Netherlands already.

British nationals who moved to the Netherlands to study (and reside) after 1 January 2021, are designated as non-EU/EEA nationals. These students require a general residence permit (algemene verblijfsvergunning) for the purpose of study and need to pay the institutional tuition fees.

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Statutory tuition fees

  Academic year 2022/23
Full-time € 2,209
Part-time € 1,572
University College Maastricht (UCM) € 3,655
Maastricht Science Programme (MSP) € 3,655**
MA Forensic Psychology € 3,990

** Exception: students who started in MSP in (or before) the academic year 2019/20, remain exempt from the increase due to the MSP 'small-scale and intensive education' and pay € 2,209 when re-enrolling for the academic year 2022/23.

First-year bachelor's students eligible for statutory tuition fee pay half
Bachelor's students, who have not previously been enrolled at a Dutch institute for higher professional education (hbo) or a Dutch university and who are eligible for the statutory tuition fee, pay a halved rate in their first academic year. The Dutch government covers for the unpaid part. These students will be entitled to pay the halved fee once during a consecutive period of 12 months. Master's students eligible for the statutory tuition fee do not qualify for the halved fee.
You can find more information on the Government website. 

If you are eligible for the halved statutory tuition fee because you are a first-year bachelor student, and not previously registered as a bachelor’student at a Dutch University or higher education, you will pay at UM:

Academic year 2022/23:

  • UM bachelor’s programmes: € 1,105 instead of € 2,209
  • University College Maastricht (UCM) and Maastricht Science Programme (MSP): € 2,551 instead of € 3,655

Institutional tuition fees

You need to meet two conditions to qualify for the statutory tuition fee. These conditions concern natonality and/or enrollment into a first or second bachelor’s/master’s programme. If you don't meet these conditions, your study will not be subsidized by the Dutch government and you will need to pay the institutional tuition fee. 

Institutional tuition fees academic year 2022/23
  Low   High   Top
  bachelor master bachelor master bachelor/master
2022/23 € 9,200 € 15,800 € 12,800 € 18,200 € 32,000

Would you like to know more about how the tuition fee rates are determined?

See the explanation tuition fee rates

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Tuition fee guides

Would you like to know how much you will be required to pay?

Go to the tuition fee guide for UM bachelor's programmes - academic year 2022/23 if your bachelor’s programme starts in September 2020 or in February 2021
Go to the tuition fee guide for UM master's programmes - academic year 2022/23 if your master’s programme starts in September 2020 or in February 2021

Go to the tuition fee guide for UM bachelor's programmes - academic year 2021/22 if your bachelor’s programme starts in February 2022
Go to the tuition fee guide for UM master's programmes - academic year 2021/22 if your master’s programme starts in February 2022

Please note: no rights can be derived from the tuition fee guides.

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