Tuition Fees 2024/2025

 

• General Information
• Amounts and Payment of Tuition Fees
  
  • Bachelors and Masters
  • Doctoral Programmes and Advanced Studies
• Special Cases
  
  • Students Covered by the International Student Status
  • Teaching Agents
  • Students Covered by Decree-Laws No. 358/70, of 29th July, and 43/76, of 20th January
  • Higher Education Teachers
  • SASUP Grant-Aided Students
  • FCT Grant-Aided Students
  • PALOP Grant-Aided Students
• Other Procedures
  
  • Procedure in Case of an Accident

General Information

Attendance of cycles of studies/courses at FEUP is subject to the payment of a tuition fee, which can be settled in a lump sum or in instalments. Students who fail to pay their tuition fee within the established deadlines must pay the outstanding amount plus interest at the legal rate.

Please see Tuition Fees Regulation of the University of Porto.

The amount of the tuition fee for full-time and part-time registration is set annually (see amounts for 2024/2025).
School insurance (2¤ for 2024/25) is mandatory for all the students of the University of Porto, regardless of the degree, course or training they attend (see the corresponding insurance policy conditions - available soon). School insurance must be paid upon enrolment/registration (obs.: if a student is registered in more than one cycle of studies/course at the University of Porto, they must only pay one school insurance per academic year).

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Amounts and Payment of Tuition Fees

The amount of the tuition fees for the different cycles of studies/courses and type of registration for the academic year 2024/25 can be found here.

The amounts indicated in the following table apply to part-time registrations:

Number of ECTS credits of the part-time registration	Amount of the part-time tuition fee
-Up to 18 ECTS credits	35% of the full-time amount
-From 19 to 37.5 ECTS credits	70% of the full-time amount
-From 38 to 40.5 ECTS credits*	80% of the full-time amount
-Registration exclusively for non-curricular components - research work and the writing of dissertation, thesis, internship or project, and corresponding reports	50% of the full-time amount
* Only for students who have all the necessary registrations for the duration of the cycle of studies and who may complete it in the year/semester corresponding to these limits, as approved in the meeting of the Board of Deans of 6th November 2017.

Tuition fees must be paid by ATM, using the corresponding references available on the student’s personal page, under the option "Conta corrente" (Current Account), or at FEUP’s Treasury (see opening hours here). If you would like the invoice to be issued for a third-party, you must pay the tuition fees at FEUP’s Treasury and have the following elements with you: name, tax identification number and address of the entity to be specified on the invoice.

Bachelors and Masters

The tuition fees (see amounts for 2024/2025) can be paid:

1. In a lump sum (single instalment) upon enrolment/registration.
2. In ten equal instalments:
   
   • 1^st instalment upon enrolment/registration;
   • 2^nd instalment until 31^st October 2024;
   • 3^rd instalment until 30^th November 2024;
   • 4^th instalment until 31^st December 2024;
   • 5^th instalment until 31^st January 2025;
   • 6^th instalment until 28^th February 2025;
   • 7^th instalment until 31^st March 2025;
   • 8^th instalment until 30^th April 2025;
   • 9^th instalment until 31^st May 2025;
   • 10^th instalment until 30^th June 2025.

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Doctoral Programmes and Advanced Studies

The tuition fees (see amounts for 2024/25) can be paid:

1. In a lump sum (single instalment) upon enrolment/registration.
2. In ten equal instalments:
   
   • 1^st instalment upon enrolment/registration;
   • 2^nd instalment until 31^st October 2024;
   • 3^rd instalment until 30^th November 2024;
   • 4^th instalment until 31^st December 2024;
   • 5^th instalment until 31^st January 2025;
   • 6^th instalment until 28^th February 2025;
   • 7^th instalment until 31^st March 2025;
   • 8^th instalment until 30^th April 2025;
   • 9^th instalment until 31^st May 2025;
   • 10^th instalment until 30^th June 2025.

For Doctoral Programmes, an enrolment fee of 100 euros applies, in accordance with the UP Table of Fees.

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Special Cases

Students Covered by the International Student Status

Regulation of the international student status referred to in Article 16 (7) of Law No. 37/2003, of 22^nd August, which establishes the basis for higher education funding - Decree-Law No. 36/2014, of 10th March, amended and republished by Decree-Law No. 62/2018, of 6th August (only available in Portuguese).

Regulation of application of the international student status at the University of Porto - Regulation No. 664/2018, of 16th October (only available in Portuguese).

See tuition fee amounts for 2024/25.

Applicants who fall within the scope of No. 2, paragraph c), and No. 4 of Article 3 of Decree-Law No. 36/2014, of 10^th March, as amended by Decree-Law No. 62/2018, of 6^th August, must send a document issued by SEF (Immigration and Borders Service) when enrolling.

Teaching Agents

Upon enrolment or registration renewal, teaching agents must present a declaration from the Regional Directorate of Education certifying their working status.

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Students Covered by Decree-Laws No. 358/70, of 29th July, and 43/76, of 20th January

Students covered by Decree-Law No. 358/70, of 29th July, Ministerial Order No. 445/71, of 20th August, and Decree-Law No. 43/76, of 20th January, (combatants and former combatants of military operations and their children) may have their tuition fees paid for by the Ministry of Defence if they have good academic performance.
To this end, upon enrolment/registration or by the end of October, students must hand in at the Academic Services all the necessary documents for the process, according to what is established by the corresponding army unit, institution or body.

Students employed by the National Ministry of Defence – PORTUGUESE ARMY

Students employed by the Army have to hand in the documents established in Circular No. 20/08, of 28th November, and corresponding addendum.

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Higher Education Teachers

In accordance with Article 4(4) of Decree-Law No. 216/92, of 13th October, "Higher education teachers who, under the corresponding statute, are obliged to obtain a Master’s and Doctoral degree are exempt from the payment of tuition fees."

1 - A student who is a teacher at another higher education institution, in order to regularise their tuition fee situation, will have to present upon enrolment/registration:
a) Supporting document attesting that they fall within the scope of the tuition fee exemption regime, issued by the institution they are affiliated to (where they teach);
b) Declaration issued by the institution they are affiliated to, authorising the student to register in the corresponding cycle of studies.

2 - A student who is a teacher at FEUP, in order to regularise their tuition fee situation, will have to present upon enrolment/registration:
a) Supporting document attesting that they fall within the scope of the exemption regime, issued by the Human Resources Division, containing information about their positioning in the teaching career, and concerning the obligation to obtain a Doctoral degree in order to progress.

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SASUP Grant-Aided Students

You can find further information here.

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FCT Grant-Aided Students

You can find further information here.

PALOP Grant-Aided Students

You can find further information here.

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Other Procedures

Procedure in Case of an Accident

See the procedure in case of an accident and corresponding insurance coverage (only available in Portuguese - available soon).

Forms to fill in (only available in Portuguese):
- Claim form (available soon);
- Declaration for the purpose of compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (available soon).