At the Faculty of Arts there is the possibility to enroll for one or two semesters. You can take undergraduate courses offered by the various departments of our Faculty and receive grades/credits for them. The maximum stay is one academic year and you can enroll at the start of the semester. This programme does not lead to a Bachelor degree.
A distinction is made between the following programmes:
| Programme: |
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| Freemover (only EU-students) |
Your university does not have a mobility agreement with the Faculty of Arts of the university of Groningen. You are enrolled as a fulltime student.
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| Contract Student (EU and non-EU students) |
You are not a (fulltime) student but you are interested in taking some courses at the Faculty of Arts of the university of Groningen.
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Please notice that we can only accept a few freemovers or contract students each year. Exchange students are given priority, but freemover and contract student applications will be considered seriously.
Freemovers and Contract students can only get limited help from the International Offiice for organising their stay in Groningen. They need to take care of their own living expenses. On the website of the International Office lots of useful information can be found about organising a stay in Groningen.
Visa
If you do not have an EU/EEU nationality you need a visa to study in the Netherlands. The International Office will apply for the visa on your behalf. As a proof of sufficient financial means (obligatory for the visa application) freemover and contract students need to deposit an amount of €810 for every month of your intended stay in the Netherlands on the faculty's bank account (1 semester: +/- 4800 euros, 2 semesters: +/- 8900 euros). This amount will be refunded upon arrival. You will receive more detailed information on the visa procedures after sending in your application documents.
Additional visa costs
The
handling fee
for visa/residence permit charged by the Dutch Immigration and Naturalization Service is € 300 for the MVV and € 300 for the residence permit for non-EU students for the academic year 2012/2013. For students from country group 2, the handling fee for the residence permit is € 600. This is an additional fee on top of the 4800/8900 as proof of sufficient financial means, and will not be refunded.
We would like to stress that the handling fee will not be refunded by the IND in case we will need to withdraw your visa application at a later stage for any kind of reason (e.g. personal reasons which prevent you from doing your study abroad, you do not manage to fulfill our entry requirements, etc).
Fees
The fees for participation in 2012-2013 are as follows (subject to changes):
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Freemover (EU students) |
Contract Student (EU students and non-EU students) |
| Administration Fee: |
€ 50 |
€ 0 |
| Fee per course |
€ 10 |
€ 200 (5 ECTS course) € 275 (10 ECTS course) |
| Fee per exam |
€ 0 |
€ 70 |
Application
In order to participate, Freemover or Contract students need to send a completed application form, together with all the required documents to the International Office. After the International Office has received this application, the student will be notified by e-mail within 4 weeks whether he/she can be admitted to the courses. Then the student will also receive an invoice for the administration and course fees. These need to be paid by bank transfer. The student will receive his/her computer account and student card upon arrival at the International Office if the procedures described above are followed.
Deadlines for application
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Semester 1: 15 June
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Semester 2: 15 November
Courses
Freemovers can choose their courses from the course selection for exchange students (BA level, MA level, Dutch Studies; only ARTS FACULTY!).
Contract students can take first years's courses (BA-1 level) and Dutch Studies courses; only ARTS FACULTY!.
For more information about courses, please contact the International Office of the Faculty of Arts: international.office.let@rug.nl
Cancellation conditions
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4 weeks before the start of a course: refund of administration fee and course fee
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between 2 and 4 weeks before the start of a course: cancellation costs € 50 (administration costs), refund of course fee
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less than 14 days before the start of a course: no refund at all.
Certificate, grades & credits
After successful completion of a course, participants will receive an official certificate, stating the title of the course, the grade en credits of the course.
The university of Groningen uses the ECTS grading system.
The Dutch grading scale runs from 1 to 10. The pass mark is 6.
The highest mark, 10, is rarely given. Sometimes assessment is done on a pass/fail basis.
Rights & obligations
Freemovers and Contract student will be considered as guest students of the University of Groningen. After approval of their application and payment of the administration and course fees, they will be registered at the university and receive a student card and a computer account. They will have free access to the computer and library facilities of the university during your period of enrollment at the university of Groningen.
