Tuition and Other Fees

Tuition is the cost of attendance which a student must pay in order to enroll. Tuition always corresponds to a single academic year. To this tuition fee, an enrollment fee is also added. This fee is the value due for academic participation, and should be paid in its entirety at the moment of request. It is not reimbursable.

Tuition: The tuition is linked to registration/enrollment, and not course attendance. This means that a student enrolled in stand-alone curricular units, a non-degree-conferring program, or undergraduate, master’s, or doctorate program who stops attending classes must still pay their respective tuition.

Disengagement from this payment only occurs when a formal withdrawal request is made, which has to be accepted following the duly outlined terms, under the penalty of cancellation. Students who default must pay not only the tuition cost, but also the interest upon this tuition cost.

Tuition by enrollment type:

Full-time: total tuition cost can be paid at one time or in 9 seperate payments (except for international students, for whom payment over time is not a possibility).
Part-time: 60% of the full-time tuition, to be paid at one time or in 9 seperate payments (except for international students, for whom payment over time is not a possibility).

Fees: Other charges and fees must be paid in their entirety upon the moment of request, and cannot be reimbursed. No follow-up for a requirement or process will be given until the administrative services have proof of payment of the respective charge or fee.

Tuition should always be paid by a multi-bank reference within the stipulated deadlines. Information on how to do so is available on the personal student page on FÉNIX.

This payment should be made through the homebanking service (which permits students to make this payment from abroad) or from any multi-bank machine in Portugal. To do so, students need only select the "Payment" option and introduce the respective “Entity”, “Reference MB” and “Amount”.

The receipt issued by the ATM should always be saved as proof of payment.

Exceptions: In exceptional cases due to an inability to pay by multibank, students should liaise with the academic services or the treasury services.

Always save the issued receipt or any other supporting documents as proof of payment for the treasury.

Students that do not pay the tuition by the deadlines established must pay not only the lacking amount, but also the additional amount determined by the respective interest rates. The interest amount, by law, is always determined by all the unpaid tuition. Iscte is a public higher education institution, and therefore failure to pay tuition assigns a debt to the State onto the student.

Lack of payment implies (in light of the tuition regulation brought into effect in the academic year of 2016/2017):

The nullification of all the academic actions undertaken in the academic year to which the default pertains;
The suspension of registration and annual enrollment, with the removal of the right to social support in the academic year in which the default occurred, until the debt as well as the respective interest is paid;
The hindrance of issue of certificates and other documents;
The loss of a spot, in the case of students who enroll for the first time in a master’s, PhD, or post-graduate programme, and do not fulfill the first tuition payment before the stipulated deadline. In these cases, the vacancy is assigned to the following candidate on the waitlist.

You are advised to read the Regulation of Tuition (2016) for more details on the consequences of failure to pay. The consequences of tuition default for students are determined by the tuition regulation in effect during the academic year in which the default occurs.

Other charges and fees are to be paid upon request to Academic Services, and are not reimbursable. No follow-up for a requirement or process will be given until the administrative services have proof of payment of the respective charge or fee.

The academic acts subject to fees and their respective values can be found in the Fee Table (Portuguese version) in effect.