The tuition fee applies whether you study full time or part time.

The tuition fee is: €2,143 (2020-2021 academic year)
This tuition fee applies if you are going to follow a government-subsidised study programme, which is not a second degree programme, and you are a national of one of the following countries: 

Some programmes are not subsidised by the Dutch government. For programmes of this type an institutional tuition fee applies. The amount varies from programme to programme.

If you are not a national of an EEA country, Suriname or Switzerland you must generally pay an institutional tuition fee. However if, on the basis of your Dutch residence permit, you are eligible for student finance from the Dutch education agency (DUO) you are entitled to pay statutory tuition fee. Information on qualifying residence permits can be found in the DUO nationality chart.

If you do not qualify for Dutch student finance and you are not a national of an EEA country, Suriname or Switzerland, you can find the amount of tuition fee you are required to pay for your study programme here below. These tariffs apply for both full-time and part-time study. 

Please note! If you are going to study at Leiden University via a cooperation agreement, the tariffs stated in the agreement apply.

If you are going to take a second Dutch master’s programme, you will generally have to pay an institutional tuition fee that is higher than the statutory tuition fee.

If you obtained a Dutch bachelor’s, doctoraal, ingenieurs or HBO (bachelor’s degree from a university of applied sciences) diploma  after 1991, and you are a national of an EEA country, Suriname or Switzerland, the following institutional tuition fees apply.

Are you unsure whether you have to pay statutory tuition fee or an institutional fee? Consult our tuition fee flowchart for second Master’s programmes (2020/2021).

Exceptions

In some cases, nationals of EEA countries, Suriname or Switzerland may be permitted to pay tuition fees set at the same amount as the statutory tuition fee for their second degree programme.

• If your second degree programme is in the field of healthcare or teacher training you are entitled to pay institutional tuition fees set at the same amount as the statutory tuition fee.
• If you begin your second master’s programme while you are still following your first master’s programme, you may pay an institutional tuition fee set at the same amount as statutory tuition fee for your second degree programme – on condition that you remain continuously registered as a student.
• If you begin a second master's programme at Leiden University in the academic year directly following the year in which you obtained your first master's degree at Leiden University you may pay an institutional tuition fee set at the same amount as the statutory tuition fee.

You pay a pre-master tariff of € 37 per EC with a maximization of € 2,143.