Termination of enrolment by the institution

The institution may terminate the enrolment of a student or extraneus during the academic year in the following cases (Article 5.3):

Situation 1

If, after enrolment, it appears that the enrollee did not meet one or more enrolment requirements at the time of registration, the enrolment will be terminated immediately.

Deregistration due to medical/psychological circumstances

Are there medical or psychological circumstances involved? Then make an appointment with the student counsellor via SSC.

If, due to your circumstances, it is unwise or impossible to continue studying, a student counsellor can advise you to (temporarily) stop your programme. Usually, the student counsellor will first request an assessment from a student psychologist or the student doctor.

If you decide to follow this advice, submit a Request for Deregistration via Studielink. Indicate the reason as ‘deregistration + reason for deregistration’. You will then be deregistered as of the first day of the month following your deregistration request.

Your request will be sent to WUR and processed. On your ‘My Studielink’ page, you can track the progress of your request via ‘My received messages’ and ‘My programmes (Status)’.

Once WUR has confirmed your deregistration to Studielink, your final status in Studielink will be Deregistered.

Studielink will send you an acknowledgement of receipt of your deregistration request. If you stop your studies on or after 1 July, you do not need to submit a deregistration request. Your enrolment will then automatically end on 31 August.

Important considerations when deregistering:

• Retroactive deregistration is not possible.
  
  
• You will be deregistered as of the 1st day of the month following your deregistration request, not earlier. For example, if you submit a deregistration request in September, you will be deregistered as of 1 October.
  
  
• You can specify a later deregistration date in your deregistration request.
  
  

Stopping student finance and the OV (public transport) product:

Your entitlement to student finance and the OV student travel product ends on the date of your deregistration. You must stop these yourself after deregistering via Studielink; this is not done automatically. For more information, see the DUO website (in Dutch). For example, if you deregister as of 1 October, you must also stop your student finance and OV as of 1 October (before 1 October).

Are you 30 years or older? After stopping, you will no longer be able to reactivate your student finance or OV product.

DUO provides a helpful Change Assistance Tool (in Dutch) that shows you quickly what else needs to be arranged.

Tuition Fee Refund:

• You are only required to pay tuition fees for the months you were enrolled. If you have paid more, you will receive a refund of 1/12 of the total tuition fee for that academic year for each month you are deregistered.
  
  
• If you deregister as of 1 July or 1 August, no tuition fee refund will be issued.
  
  

Financial consequences and arrangements:

• After deregistration, you can still use facilities that require a WUR account for 14 days. Exceptions can be discussed with the student counsellor, who may seek advice from the WUR student doctor or student psychologists.
  
  
• Once you are no longer a student, your rights to other agreements you entered into as a student also cease, such as student insurance (OW; must be cancelled yourself), student bank account, and student residence permit. Exceptions can be discussed with the student counsellor.
  
  
• If you do not have sufficient income or other financial means to live on, you can contact the UWV (in Dutch) to apply for benefits. The UWV will assess whether, and to what extent, you are able to work (assessment of work capacity).
  
  

Check your rental contract

Many students have a rental contract that requires proof of enrolment as a student. Usually, you can continue renting for several months up to a year without proof of enrolment from the university. Therefore, check your rental contract carefully.

If a temporary deregistration lasts longer than the period specified in your rental contract, a student counsellor can request that the rental agreement not be terminated during the deregistration period. Wageningen University has agreements with the student housing providers Idealis and DUWO that they will honour such requests from a student counsellor.

Statement of the termination of enrolment:

Sometimes you may need a statement of the termination of enrolment, for example for the assessment of work capacity. You can request this once your deregistration is fully completed and you have received confirmation via Studielink. You can request your statement by contacting ssc@wur.nl.

Re-enrolment:

Re-enrolment is possible as of:

• 1 September
• 1 January
• 1 February
• 1 March
• 1 May
• 1 July

Re-enrolment at any other time during the academic year is only possible in exceptional cases and with permission from the Head of the Student Service Centre and a student counsellor. The conditions must be discussed before deregistration in a personal meeting between the student and the counsellor.

Enrolment Department

Available by phone Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 12:30. Tel. +31 317 484480