(Re) enrolment and termination of enrolment during the academic year.


Summary

(Re) enrolment and termination of enrolment during the academic year.

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According to the “enrolment decision” in the student statute of WUR, you are allowed to re-enrol during the academic year.

You can re-enrol on 1 September, 1 November, 1 January, 1 February, 1 March, 1 May and 1 July.

For whom?

For all Bachelor’s and Master’s students who have been enrolled at Wageningen University for at least one month and who want to re-enrol in the same programme.

What are the advantages and disadvantages?

If you decide to temporarily terminate your enrolment during the academic year, first consider the advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages

You do not have to pay tuition fees for the months that you are not enrolled. Exception: you will not receive a tuition fee refund if you deregister on 1 July or 1 August.

Disadvantages

Your WUR account will be closed

Be aware that after deregistration you are no longer a student at Wageningen University. This means you no longer have access to Brightspace and your WUR account will be closed. You will also no longer receive emails from your study adviser or from SSC. In addition, you may no longer follow courses or receive guidance from lecturers.

Grades not yet registered

If you have taken an exam or submitted a paper for which the grade has not yet been registered, you may still request deregistration. However, this is only possible if the exam date or submission date of the paper falls within the month that you are still enrolled.

Registration for future courses, exams and resits will be cancelled

See also “How and when (including deadlines)” for how to proceed.

Housing

If you rent a student room, for example from Idealis, you may have to leave it within a certain period. Always check your rental contract before deregistering.

Student loan and/or public transport student travel product

Deregistration has consequences for your student loan via DUO and the student travel product on your OV-chipkaart. During the period that you are not enrolled you are not entitled to student finance. If you make use of this, go to the DUO website (in Dutch) and stop it. 

For non-EEA students: Residence permit

If you deregister at Wageningen University, we are obliged to inform the IND that you are no longer enrolled. This means that your residence permit for the Netherlands, based on study, is no longer valid from the day your enrolment ends, regardless of the expiry date on your residence permit. You must leave the Netherlands within one month after the end date of your enrolment.

Is your situation not listed?

Then check with the student counsellors to see whether interim deregistration may have consequences for you.

For non-EU students

For non-EU students, temporary deregistration at Wageningen University has additional consequences.
Therefore, it is necessary to contact SSC for deregistration. Depending on your plans and possible return to the Netherlands, SSC can advise you, mainly regarding legal residence. 

Residence permit

If you deregister at Wageningen University, we are obliged to inform the IND that you are no longer enrolled. This means that your residence permit for the Netherlands, based on study, is no longer valid from the day your enrolment ends, regardless of the expiry date on your residence permit. You must leave the Netherlands within one month after the end date of your enrolment.

Please note that if you want to re-enrol, we must apply for a new residence permit for you.
This process takes at least 60 days and requires full payment of the invoice (tuition fees, 12 months living allowance and additional costs) before the application can be submitted to the IND. For more information, go to Residence permit current students.

How and when? (including deadlines)

Terminating enrolment

The request for deregistration must be submitted via www.studielink.nl.

The enrolment will be terminated as of the 1st day of the month following the month in which the Student Service Centre received the request. You cannot terminate enrolment retroactively. If you submit a deregistration request on 1 April (for example), then enrolment will be terminated as of 1 May.

Registrations for courses, exams and resits

Students who were registered for courses, exams or resits before deregistering as a student will be deregistered from all courses, exams and resits taking place after the date of deregistration.

This means that after re-enrolment you must register again for courses, exams or resits!
Therefore, we have set deadlines for re-enrolment as a student so that you are always enrolled in time to (re)register for courses, exams or resits.

Re-enrolment during the academic year – for Dutch, EU and non-EU students

Contact SSC to be re-enrolled. We will then send you instructions by email on how to register via our application portal. Re-enrolment during the academic year is not possible via Studielink.

To be able to register for courses and/or (re)exams on time, there are enrolment deadlines per period. This means that before the deadline you must have completed the application via the portal and met the payment requirements.

Deadlines for re-enrolment during the academic year for Dutch and EU students 2025-2026

 
 Re-enrolment as a student as of:

Application deadline via the application portal:

Period 11 September 202527 July 2025
Period 21 November 202521 September 2025
Period 31 January 202616 November 2025
Period 41 February 20264 January 2026
Period 51 March 20261 February 2026
Period 61 May 202629 March 2026
Resits1 July 202615 June 2026


Deadlines for re-enrolment during the academic year for Dutch and EU students 2024-2025 

 
 

Re-enrolment as a student as of:

Application deadline via the application portal:

Resits

1 July 2025

16 June 2025


Deadlines for re-enrolment during the academic year for Non-EU students 2025-2026 

 
 

Re-enrolment as a student as of:

Application deadline via the application portal:

Final payment deadline:

Period 1

1 September 2025

1 June 2025

1 July 2025

Period 2

1 November 2025

1 August 2025

1 September 2025

Period 3

1 January 2026

1 Oktober 2025

1 November 2025

Period 4

1 February 2026

1 November 2025

1 December 2025

Period 5

1 March 2026

1 December 2025

1 January 2026

Period 6

1 May 2026

1 February 2026

1 March 2026

Resit

1 July 2026

1 April 2026

1 May 2026


Deadlines for re-enrolment during the academic year for Non-EU students 2024-2025.

 
 

Enrolment as of:

Deadline for submitting your request via the application portal:

Final payment deadline: 

Resits

1 July 2025

1 April 2025

1 May 2025

Questions & Answers

If you have any questions about admission, applications, tuition fees or housing, please contact SSC.