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Tuition fees 2025-2026

English-taught Bachelor's Programmes except Advanced Bachelor of Bioinformatics@home

Fixed feeVariable fee (per ECTS)Total (for 60 ECTS)
Belgian and EEA students€ 299,00€ 14,30€ 1.157,00
Non-EEA students (*)€ 1.121,00€ 100,60€ 7.157,00

Advanced Bachelor of Bioinformatics@home

Fixed feeVariable fee (per ECTS)Total (for 30 ECTS/ac Year)
Belgian and EEA students€ 299,00€ 14,30€ 728,00
Non-EEA students (*)€ 1.121,00€ 81,90€ 3.578,00

(*) non-EEA students cfr. Codex Higher education Art. II.215 for students not covered by cat. 1-9 (non-EEA students with the exception of those who have unlimited residence in Belgium, those who have temporary protection, refugee status, and those who have a Belgian residence permit that is not intended for study as is valid for at least one year.

Postgraduate Certificate Programmes

Postgraduate Certificate Programmes have a fixed price for all nationalities :

Tuition fees 2026-2027

English-taught Bachelor's Programmes except Advanced Bachelor of Bioinformatics@home

Fixed feeVariable fee (per ECTS)Total (for 60 ECTS)
Belgian and EEA students€ 305,40€ 14,60€ 1.181,40
Non-EEA students (*)€ 2.000,00€ 100,00€ 8.000,00

Advanced Bachelor of Bioinformatics@home

Fixed feeVariable fee (per ECTS)Total (for 30 ECTS/ac Year)
Belgian and EEA students€ 305,40€ 14,60€ 743,40
Non-EEA students (*)€ 1.600,00€ 80,00€ 4.000,00

(*) non-EEA students cfr. Codex Higher education Art. II.215 for students not covered by cat. 1-9 (non-EEA students with the exception of those who have unlimited residence in Belgium, those who have temporary protection, refugee status, and those who have a Belgian residence permit that is not intended for study as is valid for at least one year.

Postgraduate Certificate Programmes

Postgraduate Certificate Programmes have a fixed price for all nationalities :

Additional programme specific study costs 2026-27

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 an enrollment

  • with a diploma contract
  • with a credit contract of 18 or more credits
  • in a micro-credential in which programme-specific software is needed

The additonal programme specific study costs consist of two different parts.

Basic part of the flat-rate

These costs include, among other things:

  • ISIC international student card with numerous benefits;
  • Copy and printing costs of various information bundles (e.g. welcome days, study visits, international days, graduation fairs, ...);
  • 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, StrikePlagiarism for plagiarism check, Wooclap for interactive presentations, Readspeaker as reading software, Lucid for brainstorms and flowcharting, ...);
  • Basic software package composed of MS365 (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook, Onenote, Teams, Onedrive, ...), McAfee Endpoint Security Suite (Security), Linkedin Learning (online video tutorials for software, creative and business skills), Hogeschool Taal (NL+UK) (language policy supporting software), Combell webhosting (Wordpress templates, CMS, Linux hosting), E4Progress (self-studytool for MS Office products), eXplio (digitaal workbook), Siemens NX (software for CAD/CAM/CAE), Sketch B.V. (UX software for mobile development), Microsoft.NET (to build programmes). Completed with additional useful software for students (full range on https://academicsoftware.eu)
  • 15GB Standard Onedrive Storage

The flat-rate fee is € 123 (reduced fee € 83)

Programme-specific part of the flat-rate

For certain study programmes and micro-credentials, an additional programme-specific flate-rate is charged. The total additional study cost is as follows:

Study programmeReasonTotal additional study costReduced study cost
Digital Arts and Entertainment (Dutch & English)
  • Extra software Adobe Creative Cloud with Firefly and Reaper, HackNPlan, Maxon One;
  • Use and possibility of borrowing programme-specific game hardware and infrastructure;
  • Access to or discount for conferences and lectures by inland and foreign experts, organisation of study-nights and other activities in the framework of community;
  • Welcome- and connecting activities for (international) students, materials crea-week and closing event;
  • Various professional and network events (Career Fair, Portfolio review, etc.) and masterclasses.

(+€244)

€ 367€ 277
Digital Design and Development (Devine) (Dutch & English)
  • Extra software Adobe Creative Cloud with Firefly and Node JS Hosting
  • Use and borrowing of programme-specific tools and materials and infrastructure, occasional access to specific labs and ateliers, Community events@buda, organisation of project weeks, workshops, guest lectures, study-nights and open atelier

(+€206)

€ 329€ 239
Industrial Product Design (Dutch & English)
  • Extra software Adobe Creative Cloud with Firelfy
  • Use and borrowing of programme-specific tools, materials and infrastructure, community events, organization of project weeks, workshops, guest lectures, and open studios.

(+€206)

€ 329€ 239
Creative Technologies and Artificial Intelligence (MCT-E English Only)
  • Extra software Adobe Creative Cloud with Firefly and license Cisco
  • Programme-specific software services in the cloud - access to Azure cloud, Google cloud and Amazon AWS, use of programme-specific hardware, Community - operation and events MCT circle, Smart tech meets industry and Community nights

(+€211)

€ 334€ 244
Cybersecurity
  • Extra license Cisco

(+€5)

€ 128€ 88
Applied Computer Science (Dutch and English) (incl. all micro-credentials)
  • Extra license Cisco

(+€5)

€ 128€ 88
  • For all software included in the additional study costs the license is valid for one academic year.
  • For enrolments with 30 credits or less, the reduced study cost is charged.
  • Students with multiple enrollments pay the additional study cost only once (highest amount)

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?"