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 2023 and spring 2024 the semester fee and the other fees is NOK 710,- and includes:

• Semester fee NOK 510,- (To SiA)
• Fee for copies (Kopinor) NOK 200,-

In addition an optional fee: SAIH NOK 40,- 

If you want to support  SAIH (Norwegian Students' and Academics' International Assistance Fund) by NOK 40,-, the semester fee will be NOK 725,-.

Note that the giro in Studentweb is automatically NOK. 750, -. If you want to pay NOK 710, -, 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 for print services. 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.

Students who are paying the semester fee during a summer semester (ex Summer School), does not have to pay again for autumn semester. 

You can get a reimbursement of the semester fee if you:

• Withdraw from the exam
• If you have paid in twice
• If you have paid in too much
• If you have paid at another place of study

The form can be found here (pdf).

If you are using a bank abroad, we also need your banking details (doc) and a color copy of your passport.

The deadline for refunding the semester fee is 15 February for the spring semester and 1 October for the autumn semester.

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.

If you are a student at more than one educational institution in Norway, you only need to pay the semester fee at one of the institutions. The main rule is that you pay the semester fee to the place of study where you are living this semester, or where you are taking most credits this semester. If you have an exchange period abroad and are a degree student at UiA, you still have to pay the semester fee to UiA.

In order to get exempt from the semester fee at UiA, we need a documentation of your payment to another Norwegian place of study. Go to your Studentweb at the institution in question, go through the menu, More > Payments. Your invoice can be downloaded in a PDF format and forwarded to hjelp@uia.no.