Extended grant for tuition fees

Some educational institutions abroad entitle you to an extended grant if you have to pay high levels of tuition fees. Which educational institutions this applies to, may differ from year to year. The list below is applicable to the 2026-2027 academic year.

If you have started an education programme that entitles you to an extended grant, then you will receive that grant until you complete your programme.

To be eligible for the grant, you must:

be enrolled in a programme of study at one of the institutions on the list below
pay more than a certain amount in tuition fees

The amount you are required to pay in tuition fees changes each academic year, and will be updated in April. For the 2025-2026 academic year, the amount was 162,542 NOK. Remember to check our website for the academic year you are in to find out whether you are eligible for the grant.

Australia (5)

Monash University
University of Melbourne
University of New South Wales (UNSW - Sydney)
University of Sydney
University of Queensland

Belgium (1)

KU Leuven

Canada (3)

McGill University
University of British Columbia
University of Toronto

France (3)

Université Paris-Saclay
Université PSL
Sorbonne University

Japan (2)

Kyoto University
University of Tokyo

China, including Hong Kong (10)

City University of Hong Kong
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Fudan University
Peking University
Nanjing University
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Tsinghua University
Zhejiang University
University of Hong Kong
University of science and technology of China

Netherlands (2)

University of Groningen
University of Amsterdam

Singapore (2)

National University of Singapore
Nanyang Technological University

Great Britain (8)

Imperial College London
King's College London
University of Bristol
University of Cambridge
University College London (UCL)
University of Edinburgh
University of Manchester
University of Oxford

Switzerland (2)

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH)

South Korea (1)

Seoul National University

Germany (4)

Heidelberg University
Technical University of Munich (TUM)
University of Bonn
University Munich (LMU)

USA (32)

Carnegie Mellon University
California Institute of Technology
Columbia University
Cornell University
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
Harvard University
New York University
Northwestern University
Stanford University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Princeton University
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Davis
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Chicago
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Southern California
University of Pennsylvania
University of Texas at Austin
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Vanderbilt University
Washington University in St. Louis
Yale University

This list has been drawn up by the Directorate for Higher Education and Skills.

No separate application

When you submit your application for a loan and grant, we will assess whether you are entitled to an extended grant for tuition fees.

If you want to see what level of loans and grants you are eligible for, you can complete the calculator at the top of the page.

Note that the calculator is for the current academic year. It will be updated with amounts and universities for the 2026-2027 academic year some time in the spring of 2026.

The Directorate for Higher Education and Skills’ pages on the qualification list.