• Fees and other Expenses
• Jobs
• Loans
• Scholarships

Fees and other expenses

Tuition Fee

There are two different tuition rates, one for European students and one for overseas students. For details, we refer the reader to the webpage of the International Office. The fees are the same for the M.Sc. programme in logic and the Logic Year. There is no tuition fee for the PhD programme.

Housing

The rent for single rooms varies from € 300 to more than € 400 per month. For more information, click here.

Living Costs

In addition to the tuition fee and accommodation expenses, applicants should budget approximately € 500 a month for other expenses.

Study Material

The costs of books and other study material vary per course. Students should budget approximately € 150 per semester for books and other study materials.

Medical Insurance

Foreign students are required to have health insurance. Depending upon the country of the student's origin, the International Office of the Faculty of Science (e-mail: master-science@uva.nl) can provide health insurance for foreign students for € 20 to € 40 per month.

Jobs

Students from EU countries are officially allowed to hold a job in the Netherlands without obtaining a working permit. Students, from non-EU countries, may either work ten hours per week during the year or may apply their cumulative work hours to a seasonal job in June, July and/or August. For information about working permits, please consult the webpage of the International Office.

Loans

American and Canadian students are entitled to apply for a Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) or for a deferment of payment on an existing GSL-account. The Universiteit van Amsterdam's School code is 00837. American graduate students can apply for Graduate Fulbright grants. Deadline for applications is October 31 for courses starting in September of the following year. Information on Fulbright grants can be obtained from the Institute of International Education.

Scholarships

Amsterdam Merit Scholarships

The Amsterdam Merit Scholarship programme aims to attract the world's brightest students to its its international classrooms. Since September 2007, outstanding students from outside the European Economic Area can apply for an Amsterdam Merit Scholarship. For more information, click here.

Beth Scholarship

Since 2003 the MSc Logic has been supported by the Evert Willem Beth Foundation. This support allowed to finance a number of students with the help of a Beth Scholarship. If you are an outstanding student with broad interest, you can indicate on your application that you would like to be considered as a candidate for the Beth Scholarship.
Click here to see a list of our Beth Scholars.

Erasmus Mundus Action 2

Erasmus Mundus Action 2 is a collection of programmes linking European universities to non-European countries, offering exchange opportunities for students on undergraduate, master, doctoral and post-doctoral level as well as for university staff in academic or administrative positions, financed by the European Commission. The University of Amsterdam participates in two of the Erasmus Mundus Action 2 programmes:

Erasmus Mundus Europe Asia (EMEA), for students from Bangladesh, China, India, Nepal and Pakistan;

Erasmus Mundus Action 2 for South Africa (ema2sa), for students from South Africa.

Please take a look at these websites for more information.

Other grants

Depending on availability and other factors, we may be able to give small grants for partial support of exceptional students that couldn't get other support. In the past, there have been grants funded by the ILLC for highly exceptional students and grants funded by the Heyting Foundation for students with a marked interest in mathematical logic.

Click here to find out if there are any other possibilities for you.