Statutory tuition fees

You will qualify for statutory tuition fees if you satisfy the following three conditions. You will, however, have to pay the university tuition fees as soon as one of them no longer applies to you. In addition, as of 1 September 2012 you will have to pay a surcharge on top of your statutory tuition fees (the ‘long-term student rate') if you incur a study delay of more than a year.:

1. Nationality

• Dutch passport holders;
• EU/EEA nationals;
• Swiss nationals;
• Non-EEA nationals who are family members [PDF] of an EU citizen resident in the Netherlands;
• Non-EEA nationals with a Dutch residence permit [PDF] of type II, III or IV, and in certain circumstances type I;
• Surinam nationals.

2. Residence 

• You live in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg or one of the German federal states of North-Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony or Bremen, and;
• your place of residence is verified in the Municipal Personal Records Database (GBA) via Studielink by 30 September at the latest or you have submitted an extract of the Municipal Personal Records Database (no more than 3 months old) of your municipality to the University of Groningen to prove that you live in the Netherlands or one of the above-mentioned border areas. This concerns all students.

3. The same degree may not have been gained before at a government-funded institution in the Netherlands: 

• Students who enrol for a Bachelor's degree programme may not previously have gained a Bachelor's degree and students who enrol for a Master's degree programme may not previously have gained a Master's degree from a university of university of applied science in the Netherlands. The data to be used will be that included in the Central Register of Higher Education Enrolment (CRIHO) since 1 September 1991.

In certain circumstances you may qualify for statutory tuition fees or university tuition fees I (ammount is identical to the statutory tuition fees) for a second Bachelor’s or Master’s degree programme, on condition that you satisfy the nationality and residence requirements.