Tuition waiver: which credits are covered and how much you save
Independent site: not the Ministry of Education
Enter your first-time credits and the price per credit at your university: you will see how much the waiver covers and what you still pay for repeated credits.
Example, not your result yet· change a figure to see yours
What the tuition waiver covers
€1,200
Up to threshold 3, first-time credits are free. Repeated credits are not.
| You pay | €0 |
| Threshold for 4 people and €30,000 income | Threshold 2 |
Household and income can be changed under «More about your case». Each region sets the credit price: this site has not collected them and asks for yours.
Prepared by Radif Partners · Method · Figures re-read in the BOE and the call on 8 November 2026
The tuition waiver covers the public fee for the credits you enrol in for the first time in 2026-2027. It is only for degrees, official master's degrees and higher arts education, and it reaches threshold 3 of family income: €40,773 for a household of four. It is the component most families obtain, because it requires neither living away nor full enrolment: 30 credits or more is enough to apply. It is not money paid into your account. The university does not charge you for those credits, or refunds them if you paid, and the Ministry compensates it, under article 54 of the call. Credits taken for a second or later time, credits beyond the minimum needed for the qualification and administrative fees are left out. The amount depends on the price per credit each region sets for its public universities, which this site has not collected: that is why the calculator asks for yours. At private colleges the waiver covers the region's public fee, not the college's price.
Which credits it covers
Article 5 of the call limits the waiver to credits you enrol in for the first time in 2026-2027. An example: 66 credits enrolled, 12 of them from a subject failed last year. The waiver covers the 54 new ones; you pay for the 12 repeated ones at the second-enrolment price your region sets. Credits beyond the minimum needed for the qualification are not covered either.
| Situation | Tuition waiver |
|---|---|
| Degree or master's, full enrolment, threshold 1, 2 or 3 | Yes, new credits |
| Part-time, 30 to 59 credits, up to threshold 3 | Yes, new credits |
| Credits taken a second or later time | No |
| Credits beyond the minimum needed for the qualification | No |
| Allowed extra final year | Yes |
| Upper secondary or vocational training | None: there is a basic grant |
| Income above threshold 3 (€40,773 with 4 members) | No |
Is your household within threshold 3?
Example, not your result yet· change a figure to see yours
Your threshold for a household of 4
Threshold 2
| Threshold 1 | €22,107 |
| Threshold 2 | €38,242 |
| Threshold 3 | €40,773 |
The price per credit
Each region passes a public fees decree for every academic year for its universities, varying by field, type of studies and how many times a subject has been taken. To find your price, look up your region's decree or your university's fee table. The calculator multiplies your credits by that price; the default value is only an example and does not belong to any particular university.
If tuition is all you get
Many threshold-3 holders and students coming from part-time enrolment only obtain this component. Even so, over a four-year degree the total saving is large, and it needs nothing extra once the grant is awarded. If your grade reaches 8 with full enrolment, the excellence amount is added. The other components and their thresholds are under amounts, and master's degrees have their own page, the master's grant.
What the Ministry pays the university
Nothing in this section changes what you pay: the exemption covers the public fee for each new credit. This is about what the Ministry later pays the university: the call sets caps, such as €18.46 per degree credit when today's price is above the 2011-2012 one, and the university absorbs the difference, not the student. There is no tuition waiver either when the cost is already covered by public funds (article 13.4). And a student whose last year was part-time and who beat the field percentage gets the tuition waiver as the only component (article 24.2).