07 - Portugal - Registration and/or tuition fees
Enrolment is the act in which the student enters the higher education institution, regardless of whether
they have been at a higher education establishment the previous academic year. The enrolment in
itself doesn’t give the right of attendance. It is necessary to make the annual enrolment for subjects on
the respective course.
Enrolment is allowed in the case of valid registration and allows the attendance of various class
subjects of the course the student is enrolled on.
Those duly registered and enrolled on courses at the establishment are considered students of the
institution. Each student can only register at one institution and enrol on one course in higher
education.
The registration at a higher education establishment terminates when a student who duly registers and
enrols in one academic year, does not enrol in the following one.
Registration and/or enrolment are done in a fixed period in the calendar year of each establishment,
via the presentation of identification.
The Law No. 37/03, 22nd of August reinforces the importance attributed to the policy of social support
whose objective is to make access to Higher Education possible for all, regardless of economic
circumstances. Although the State is financially responsible, each student is asked to make a
contribution to the costs of the institution in order to improve the quality of the system. This contribution
corresponds to the payment of a flat-rate fee.
The fee is paid irrespective of the socio-economic circumstance of the student. The amount is fixed
depending on the course they attend and its quality with the amount being equal to 1.3 times the
national minimum wage in force and a maximum amount to be established at the beginning of the
academic year (n. 2 of the article 16 of Law n.º 37/03, 22nd of August, amended by article 3 of Law n.º.
49/05, 30th of August).
In general, students enrolled and registered in private and cooperative teaching establishments, apart
from the cost of enrolment and registration, pay tuition fees (which correspond to the total of all
monthly payments, the value of which varies according to the course and the institution that teaches it.
In the case of late payments an extra fee is charged.
The funding from tuition fees belongs to the respective institutions themselves, who are responsible for
defining the amount payable.
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Date: 2009
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