Tuition Fees
External (not employed by the VU) PhD candidates who register on or from 1 January onwards will be charged an annual fee to contribute to the costs of their PhD trajectory. More information about the annual fee follows.
Graduate School of Humanities PhD Fund
PhD candidates (internal as well as external) who have no bench fee or travel expenses in their project budget left, or do not have any bench fee or allocated travel budget at all, can apply for funding to attend conferences and to travel to libraries and research institutes abroad (GSH PhD Fund). For more information, see the as well as the .
Please note that requests will be assessed and funding allocated on a “first come, first served” basis. Funding is subsequent to available funds per calendar year. Once funds are depleted no further applications will be granted.