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Studying in the Netherlands

universities
8
courses
167
English-taught
159

StudyPath lists 8 universities in the Netherlands and 167 courses between them, 159 of which are taught in English. The cheapest verified fee is about US$12,355 a year, at AUAS / HvA. 7 of these universities publish their own accommodation prices. Every figure was read from the university's own published page and last checked on 2026-09-30.

Filter these 8 universitiesAll 167 courses, cheapest first

What the fee figure leaves out

A published fee is not what you pay

49 courses here, across 7 universities, carry a sourced note about a cost the headline figure does not include — a compulsory contribution, an income-tested scale, an annual increase that applies from year two, a rule about who qualifies. The most widely shared of them:

The published figure is TU/e's institutional fee. A lower statutory fee applies to EU/EEA, Swiss and Surinamese nationals who have not already taken a comparable Dutch degree; anyone else pays the institutional fee.

“Different fees apply: the statutory fee, the institutional fee and other fees. At TU/e, the same fees apply to part-time students as to full-time students. Statutory fee If you have EU/EEA, Swiss or Surinamese nationality and have not previously obtained a comparable degree in Dutch higher…”

TU/e · read from Tuition fee - TU/e. Open any course on that page to see the sentence it came from.

What it costs

Annual international tuition, converted to US dollars so the two ends compare. The published figure in its own currency is the authoritative one.

Cheapest

US$12,355a year

AUAS / HvA

Dearest

US$37,130a year

Groningen

What it costs to live

Student housing published by the university itself or by the body that runs its halls, cheapest first. Shown in the currency and period each one publishes — not converted, because a converted rent is a worse number than the real one.

  • WURWageningen€300–€600per month
  • TwenteEnschede€350–€550per month
  • AUAS / HvAAmsterdam€370–€1,150per month
  • TU/eEindhoven€400–€575per month
  • TU DelftDelft€500–€1,350per month
  • RadboudNijmegen€561–€600per month

How the Netherlands compares with other countries

Ranked against every other country on StudyPath. Countries charge in different currencies, so these figures are converted to US dollars and are approximate; the published figure, in its own currency, is on each university's page.

 NetherlandsAmong countriesRange across countries
Lowest international tuition you would paya year, cheapest course that charges anything~US$12,400at AUAS / HvA58th lowest of 64 countries~US$207 (France) to ~US$27,300 (Hong Kong)
Tuition-free degrees we listpublished at zero for international studentsNone7 countries have some931 in Germany at most
Cheapest student housing a university publishesfor a year, from the lowest rate on its own site~US$4,200at WUR54th lowest of 66 countriesFree (Saudi Arabia) to ~US$12,000 (Iceland)
Living costs a student visa requires you to showfor a year, the immigration authority's own figure~US$15,70014th lowest of 19 countries~US$2,200 (South Africa) to ~US$25,900 (Iceland)

Converted to US dollars at the site's exchange rates of 13 Sept 2026. A fee or rent published per term, month or week is scaled to a year, and housing is counted for twelve months of holding the room. The living-cost figure is what an immigration authority requires a student visa applicant to show, taken as a year; the UK's, for example, covers at most nine months, so this overstates it. See student finance for each country's exact wording.

Universities in the Netherlands

Ranked universities first, then the rest by how many courses they publish. Unranked never means worse — it means QS has not measured it.