When you deregister from your study programme, because you graduated or withdrew from your study programme, you will no longer be able to take classes, sit examinations or apply for your diploma. You will also no longer be entitled to a student loan or a public transport pass. In some cases, your tuition fees may be partially refunded.
Tip: De Dienst Uitvoering Onderwijs (DUO) has a handy tool (in Dutch) that gives insight in what applies to your situation.
Cancelling your student loan and student travel product (public transport pass)
You will need to cancel your student loan and public transport pass yourself. This can be done through the Education Executive Agency (DUO). Find out more about Cancelling your student loan (in Dutch).
You are no longer entitled to study loans and a student travel product (public transport pass) from the month after your exam/graduation date or termination of studies. If you still receive study funding and a student travel product after your exam/graduation date or deregistration date, you will have to repay the excess amount received and you will be fined. So please make sure to stop both in time.
Please note: avoid getting a DUO fine
At Radboud University, the deregistration date is always on the first day of the month following your exam/graduation date, if you choose to deregister due to 'graduation' in Studielink. This means that your deregistration date may also be in the past. As it can take several weeks to process your graduation date and deregistration, it is extra important that you stop your student travel product in time to avoid a fine.
Example: your exam/graduation date is 15 December. You submit a deregistration request on 15 January. The faculty processes your graduation date on 7 February. Once that happens, your deregistration request can be processed and you will be deregistered retroactively as of 1 January. This means that you were no longer entitled to the student travel product from 1 January. Did you still use your student travel product after that date? Then you will be fined by DUO.
More information about cancelling your student travel product and the amount of fines can be found on DUO.nl Do you not know what your exam date is? Check this with the STIP of your faculty.
Tuition fee refund
If you deregister from your study programme in any month other than June, July or August, the excess tuition fees that you have paid will be refunded. This amount equates to one twelfth of the total tuition fees paid that you have paid for each of the months that you are no longer enrolled in the study programme.
You can automatically request a refund when you deregister from your study programme in Studielink. If you pay your tuition fees by direct debit, this service will automatically cease. You will not need to notify anyone about cancelling your direct debit. In some cases, an extra instalment will be debited, but this amount will eventually be refunded.
The excess tuition fees will be refunded (retroactively) from the month that you deregistered from your study programme. It will take approximately six weeks for the refunded amount to be transferred to your account.
Refund for pre-Master’s programmes
When you deregister in the first year from a pre-Master’s programme that consists of more than 30 credits on 1 March, you will only be required to pay for the first 30 credits.