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Overview tuition fees 2024-25

English-taught Bachelor Programmes except Advanced Bachelor Bioinformatics@home

Fixed fee Variable fee (per ECTS) Total (for 60 ECTS)
Belgian and EEA students € 288,00 € 13,80 € 1.116,00
Non-EEA students (*) € 1.110,00 € 100,10 € 7.116,00

Advanced Bachelor Bioinformatics@home

Fixed fee Variable fee (per ECTS) Total (for 30 ECTS/ac Year)
Belgian and EEA students € 288,00 € 13,80 € 702,00
Non-EEA students (*) € 1.110,10 € 81,60 € 3.558,00

(*) non-EEA students cfr. Codex Higher education Art. II.215 for students not covered by cat. 1-9 (non-EEA students with the exeption of those who have unlimited residence in Belgium, those who have a tempory protection or a refugee status or a candidate refugee with an ongoing procedure in Belgium, those who have a residence permit for Belgium for at least one year, and that permit is not for study)

Postgraduate Certificate Programmes

Postgraduate Certificate Programmes have a fixed price for all nationalities :

Additional programme specific study costs for 2023-24 (costs for 2024-25 available in May)

Specific and limited costs for the use of goods and the organisation of specific events are charged to the student insofar as they are directly related to the organisation of the programme.

Certain costs are charged at a flat-rate to students with a diploma contract or to students with a credit contract of 12 or more credits. These costs include, among other things, costs for:

  • ISIC international student card with numerous benefits;
  • Copy and printing costs of various essential information bundles (welcome days, study visits, international days ...);
  • Use of multimedia rooms, studios and loan-out multimedia equipment;
  • IT support from the ICT helpdesk;
  • Unlimited electricity consumption for charging mobile devices;
  • Collectively calculated consumables for labs, practicals, bachelor’s thesis, internship;
  • Copyrights (Reprobel);
  • Use of electronic media library databases, intra-media library traffic;
  • Use of educational ICT tools as plug-in to the Leho electronic learning environment (Panopto video tool, Lockdown Browser for secure testing environment an online exams, Turnitin for plagiarism check, Study Coach for study guidance, Wooclap for interactive presentations ...);
  • Basic software package with E4Progress ( studytool for office) , eXplio (digitaal workbook), HogeschoolTaal (NL+UK), LinkedIn Learning (online video tutorials for software, creative and business skills), McAfee Endpoint Security Suite, MS Office, Siemens NX, Sketch, Wolfram Mathematica, .Net hosting, Alinea, Linux Hosting, Wordpress (website templates en CMS)

The flat-rate fee is € 112.

In addition to this fixed cost, a programme-specific fee is charged for certain study programmes. The total additional study cost is as follows:

Study programme Reason Total additional study cost Reduced study cost
Digital Arts and Entertainment (Dutch & English) Extra software Adobe Creative Cloud access to and possibility to the borrowing programme specific game hardware and infrastructure Specific events and lectures by inland and foreign experts, organisation of study nights and other activities in the framework of government building with the international student population, characteristic of the international character of the programme. € 380 € 260
Digital Design and Development (Devine) (Dutch & English) Extra software Adobe Creative Cloud and Node JS Hosting € 355 € 265
Industrial Product Design (Dutch & English) Extra software Adobe Creative Cloud € 305 € 215
Multimedia and Creative Technology Extra software Adobe Creative Cloud and license Pluralsight and license Cisco € 312 € 222
Applied Computer Science (Dutch and English) (incl. all micro degrees) Extra license Cisco € 119 € 79
  • For all software included in the additional study costs the license is valid for one academic year.
  • For enrolments with 30 credits or fewer, the amount is reduced study cost

Costs for books, other study materials, other programme-specific mandatory software and study trips are not included in the additional study costs. An estimation of all costs related to your study programme can be found on the webpage of that specific study programme under "How to enroll?"