Application fee for students with a foreign diploma

You pay an non-refundable application fee so that the University of Groningen can assess whether your diploma gives you access to the degree programme you want to follow.

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For the academic year 2024-2025 the non-refundable application fee is 100 euros.

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No, there is no reimbursement of the application fee (non-refundable application fee). Furthermore, if you want to apply again next year, you must pay the application fee again.

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No, in case you apply for more than one programme in one academic year, you only need to pay the fee once.

But, if you want to apply again next academic year, you have to pay the application fee again.

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Every student with an foreign diploma has to pay the application fee.

The application fee will not be waived except for very specific cases. These are:

• students who have refugee status in the Netherlands
• students who are applying for an Erasmus Mundus programme
• students who are applying for a Double Degree programme and whose prior university has already evaluated their diploma. These students will be informed of this in their application instructions
• students who are applying on the basis of a Dutch diploma
• students who are applying on the basis of a VWO diploma from Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Saba, St. Eustatius or Surinam.

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The application fee will not be waived except for very specific cases. These are:

• students who have refugee status in the Netherlands
• students who are applying for an Erasmus Mundus programme
• students who are applying for a Double Degree programme and whose prior university has already evaluated their diploma. These students will be informed of this in their application instructions
• students who are applying on the basis of a Dutch diploma
• students who are applying on the basis of a VWO diploma from Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Saba, St. Eustatius or Surinam.

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If any of these exemption conditions apply to you, you will receive instructions on how to register your exemption in the email containing the payment link for other students, which you will receive within a few working days after you have applied in Studielink.

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Unfortunately, it is not possible to tell you beforehand if you are eligible for admission.

There is no overview of previous education that will give you access to the University of Groningen for every country. Therefore, the UG has to assess all applications on an individual basis and for this process you must pay the application fee.

For more information about the entry requirement, you can check the pages mentioned below.

• Bachelor’s degree
  In order to be eligible for admission, the general end level of your previous education must be equivalent to the pre-university education (VWO) in the Netherlands.
• Master’s degree
  You can find an overview of the entry requirements per faculty on the Master’s degree programme page.

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