Study in Poland from Netherlands

Visas & entry

No visa — EU freedom of movement; register residence if staying >3 months

Where to apply

local voivodeship office (EU residence registration)

Key documents

• Dutch ID card (identiteitskaart) or passport
• EU residence registration certificate
• health insurance (EHIC or private)

Source: migrant.poznan.uw.gov.pl

Getting there

Amsterdam (AMS) → Warsaw (WAW)

Typical price

€40–150 (one-way est.)

Flight time

2 h

Airlines

KLM, LOT, Wizz Air (from Eindhoven), Ryanair (from Eindhoven)

KLM and LOT fly AMS→WAW direct (~2h, several departures daily); Wizz Air and Ryanair fly Eindhoven→Warsaw from ~€35–40 one-way, and KLM also serves Kraków direct.

Prices vary — estimate from kiwi.com

Cost of living

≈ €500–850/mo in Warsaw/Kraków, ~€350–550 in smaller cities. Estimate (study.gov.pl).

Full tuition & costs guide →

What it's really like

Poland and the Netherlands are close EU partners with warm, low-friction relations — the Netherlands has long been one of Poland's largest foreign investors (roughly 2,500 Dutch-shareholding companies employing over 120,000 people), and hundreds of thousands of Poles have lived and worked in the Netherlands since 2004, so familiarity runs both ways. Dutch students in Poland are rare enough that there is no distinct Dutch student scene; the few who come blend into English-taught international programmes, and the frictions that exist are the standard bureaucratic ones (residence-registration queues) rather than social. The Dutch institutional and business presence is well established, centred on Warsaw.

Community: Very small student cohort — 53 Dutch students in 2022/23 (85th source country, and among the lowest-growth groups of 2018/19–2022/23). The wider Dutch community is business-driven and concentrated around Warsaw, with ~2,500 Dutch-shareholding companies employing 120,000+ people in Poland (2015 figures).

Tips from students & forums

1. As an EU citizen you need no visa or permit — but if you stay longer than 3 months you must register your stay in person at the voivodeship office, no later than the day after the 3-month mark.

   migrant.poznan.uw.gov.pl ↗

2. Check whether your DUO student finance travels with you — 'meeneembare studiefinanciering' can fund a full Bachelor's or Master's abroad if you were legally resident in the Netherlands for 3 of the last 6 years; DUO advises applying at least 3 months before departure.

   duo.nl ↗

3. Compare KLM/LOT from Amsterdam (~2h direct to Warsaw) with Wizz Air and Ryanair from Eindhoven — the budget routes start around €35–40 one-way and are typically the cheapest way home.

   kiwi.com ↗

Good to know

• Student mobility runs overwhelmingly toward the Netherlands: 5,582 Poles studied at Dutch universities in 2023/24 (the 6th-largest origin group there, per Nuffic), against 53 Dutch students in Poland in 2022/23.
• Dutch and Frisian Mennonite settlers (the Olędrzy) colonised the Vistula delta from the 16th century, founding about 1,700 settlements before 1864 — traces survive in village architecture and place names like Holendry and Olędry.
• As of 2015 the Netherlands was Poland's largest EU investor, with about 2,500 Dutch-shareholding companies employing over 120,000 people.

English-taught programmes for Dutch students

All 963 degrees in the catalogue are open to Dutch applicants — these picks match what students from Netherlands most often look for. Tuition shown per year where the university publishes it.

Browse the full catalogue by field of study, city, university or use the programme finder.

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