Please pay your semester fee as soon as possible and within 1 September for autumn semester and 1 February for spring semester. When you pay your semester fee, you can download the app/get your semester card, your student ID-card and receive your financial support from the Lånekassa (this only applies to students with a permanent residence permit). You can find your invoice on the Studentweb. If your invoice is missing, please contact UiA Help.
Note that it can take a couple of days for your payment to be registered in our student system.
Semester fee
You need to log on to Studentweb to find your invoice.
Each semester you are required to pay your semester fee to be registered as a student, to be able to attend your exams, receive your financial support from Lånekassa and to receive your semester card. The semester card confirms that you are a student during the semester. You will need the semester card to use the services from SIA (The Student Association in Agder) and to get discounts during e.g. travel.
Please pay your semester fee within the deadlines (February 1 and September 1), or you no longer will be considered as a student and your registrations for classes will be deleted.
"Old" students can find information about payment and their invoice on the Studentweb in December/June. New students have to wait just before the semester starts.
If you don't have an online bank, you can order your paper invoice on the Studentweb. The invoice usually will be sent to your semester address, however to your home address during the summer and during Christmas.
Please use the KID when you pay by online banking. Please do not use a manually printed invoice.
Banking details if you don't have a Norwegian bank account:
IBAN: NO5576940518748
SWIFT: DNBANOKK
Mark the payment with "Student number: xxxxxx"
For autumn 2021 and spring 2022 the semester fee and the other fees is NOK 685,- and includes:
Note that the giro in Studentweb is automatically NOK. 725, -. If you want to pay NOK 685, -, you must change this yourself when you make your payment in the online bank.
The first time you pay your semester fee, you get NOK. 50, - into your student card. After this, you have to top up yourself.
If you have paid semester fee to another university or college, the payment will not automatically be registered in UiA student system. You'll have to show some kind of documentation that can prove that you have paid the semester fee elsewhere, so that UiA can register it manually in the system. Please come by UiA Help at your campus, or send a letter/e-mail to us enclosing a copy of the documentation that you have paid. Please remember to state your full name and your student number.
Summer semester
Students who are paying the semester fee during a summer semester (ex Summer School), does not have to pay again for autumn semester.
Reimbursing your semester fee
You can get a reimbursement of the semester fee if you:
The deadline for refunding the semester fee is 15 February for the spring semester and 1 October for the autumn semester.
PhD students
PhD candidates receiving support from the State Educational Loan Fund pursuant to the rules in Part Six of the provisions of the Educational Support Act, through the NUFU-programme or other programmes financed by NORAD, may choose to pay the semester fee. In cases where there is doubt whether a person should be classified as a student, the institution will, after consulting with the Student Association, decide the matter pursuant to the first subsection”. See also Student Association provisions, section 17. This indicates that only PhD students enrolled in the programmes mentioned above, or those getting support from the State Educational loan Fund according to current regulations, may choose to pay the semester fee. For all other PhD students, paying the semester fee is not an option.