For the 2025-2026 academic year: 

• The statutory tuition fee for the AUC programme is EUR 5400
• For students not eligible to pay the statutory tuition fee, the tuition fee is EUR 15420

The fees are used to support AUC as an intensive and small-scale study programme that offers students an enhanced learning experience and personal tutoring, to support the diversity of AUC's international and residential campus community including AUC's scholarship programme, and to provide a high service level with respect to (international) career development. AUC has been awarded the "Distinctive feature of small-scale and intensive education" by the Dutch-Flemish Accreditation Council (NVAO) (see the link to the left).

Law reducing first-year tuition fees discontinued from 2024-2025

On 10 July 2018, the Upper House of the Dutch Parliament approved a bill that reduces university tuition fees for students in their first year. All first-year students enrolling in higher education for the first time after 1 September 2018 until the academic year 2023-2024 paid a reduced rate during their first year if they were eligible for the statutory fee. From the academic year 2024-2025, the law reducing the first year of tuition fees will be stopped. You can read more about the first-year tuition fee reduction and its discontinuation on the Dutch government's website. 

Stichting AUC Scholarship Fund (ASF) supports diversity in the AUC student body by facilitating access to the AUC programme for talented and underrepresented students. Read more about ASF Scholarships and Talent Fellowships at AUC. 

While studying full-time in the Netherlands, you may be able to apply for student financial support. Whether or not you're eligible will depend on the study programme, age, nationality and residency status.

Components of financial support

Student finance in the Netherlands consists of several components, such as a (supplementary) grant, possibly a loan and a student travel product. You'll be required to pay back the loan after you finish your studies. Only the student travel product and the (supplementary) grant may become non-repayable. You will need to read more about study finance and whether you qualify (and for which components) based on the detailed information available on the DUO website. Please note that your eligibility for financial support depends on a number of factors, and not all students may be eligible for all components or products. 

AUC guarantees accommodation for all enrolled students for three years. All students live together in the residences on campus in Science Park.

You can find more information on accommodation and costs via the links below.

As a student, you will need to buy essential books for your studies and cover day-to-day practical costs such as meals and drinks, pay for a mobile phone bill, etc. You should also consider transportation costs such as buying a bike or using public transport in your estimate as these will be necessary to get around the city. Additionally, you should budget some money for unexpected costs (if your bike gets stolen, or your laptop needs repairing or replacing, for example).

Like all residents of the Netherlands, you will need to have health insurance and it is also highly recommended that you take out appropriate general third-party insurance (liability insurance). Please don't forget to budget for these expenses while determining your cost of studying. 

If you are not Dutch, you may need an entry visa and/or residence permit to study in the Netherlands. The University of Amsterdam (UvA) provides immigration services to international AUC students for residing in the Netherlands for the purpose of studying. For more information,m please follow the link below to the “Visas and permits” webpage of the UvA. You may also qualify for a different type of residence permit than student residency, but the UvA can only assist with permits and visas for study purposes.

For more general information on coming to the Netherlands to study, visit the Study in Holland website (an initiative of Nuffic, the Netherlands organisation for international cooperation in higher education), and/or the immigration websites of the Dutch government and Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND).