EIT Digital: Inside the 48-Course Catalogue and the Separate Master's Degree

EIT Digital's public catalogue holds 48 courses, and none of them require an application in the usual sense: every one is non-degree, English-taught, delivered entirely online, and you register directly rather than compete for a seat.

• Admission model: direct registration on 48 self-paced online courses, no acceptance rate to clear
• Course fees: some courses are free to take, others carry their own fee set per course rather than a single catalogue-wide rate
• Catalogue deadline: 30 April 2027, with courses starting 31 May 2027
• Language: entirely English-taught, entirely online
• Separate degree route: the Master School charges EUR 6,000 a year for EU/EEA citizens and EUR 18,000 for non-EU/EEA citizens

The 48 courses cluster around specific technical disciplines: Theoretical Computer Science alone accounts for seven, Data Protection for five, and Data Science and Electronics and Embedded Systems for four each. That density is the catalogue's signature. It reads like a technical training library built by computer science faculties rather than a general continuing-education platform, and the depth shows in titles like Automated Reasoning: Symbolic Model Checking and Quantitative Formal Modeling and Worst-Case Performance Analysis.

This suits two different readers. If you want a short, resume-ready credential in a specific technical area, you register for a course directly and can typically start right away, paying per course rather than per year. If you want an actual master's degree, that runs through a separate track, the EIT Digital Master School, which reviews applications in batches and issues transcripts jointly with partner universities. Mixing up the two is the most common mistake applicants make, since both carry the same name.

Tuition by route

Last verified 20 July 2026, from the Master School fees page and the Blockchain for the Decision Maker course page. The first-semester tuition payment itself falls on a different date depending on which of the three application periods you're admitted through: 29 May 2026 for Period 1, 30 June 2026 for Period 2, and 17 July 2026 for Period 3, so the period that decides your visa timeline also decides your payment deadline.

Living costs in Flanders and Brussels

Those figures, from Study in Flanders, apply to anyone relocating for the Master School or another Belgian programme, not to someone taking a self-paced course from home. For comparison, Flemish public universities set 2026/27 tuition guidelines of EUR 1,157 per 60 ECTS for EU/EEA nationals and EUR 2,300 to EUR 9,500 for non-EU/EEA nationals on a typical degree, which puts the Master School's EUR 6,000 EU/EEA rate above the national baseline and its EUR 18,000 non-EU/EEA rate within the range Belgian universities already charge international students generally.

One-off costs

Every fee EIT Digital or the Master School publishes directly runs in euros, not dollars or another currency, so treat any course listing you see priced in a different currency with caution and confirm against the official course page before paying. Beyond tuition itself, the Master School application carries its own EUR 75 charge for every programme you submit to, separate from tuition and non-refundable regardless of the outcome. Blockchain for the Decision Maker's discount structure shows the same one-off logic on the course side: EIT Digital Partner staff pay roughly half of what a non-partner participant pays for the identical course, whether booked early, at the regular rate, or as part of a group.

None of the 48 catalogued courses require relocating; they are built for online, self-paced study, so there is no campus housing question attached to them. That changes for anyone enrolled in the Master School, which places students physically at partner universities in Belgium and across Europe for a two-year residential degree.

For that group, Study in Flanders estimates EUR 800 to EUR 1,000 a month in total living costs, covering accommodation, food, study materials, phone and internet, insurance, local transport and everyday activities, with accommodation alone running EUR 450 to EUR 600 a month. Non-EU/EEA students holding a student residence permit can work up to 20 hours a week during term time, and more during official academic holidays, under Belgian work-and-study rules. Those numbers describe life for the Master School's two-year cohort specifically; they say nothing about anyone working through the online catalogue from wherever they already live.

The two-year timeline matters for budgeting, since living costs don't reset or discount in year two: expect the same EUR 800 to EUR 1,000 monthly range for the full length of the programme, on top of tuition. Because the Master School's double-degree structure moves students between partner universities, the city, and therefore the exact rent within that EUR 450 to EUR 600 band, can change between the first and second year rather than staying fixed for the whole degree.

The Master School's most recent alumni survey, updated February 2026, reports 92% of graduates employed after graduation and 83% landing a first role within three months. Recent placements named on the school's careers page include roles at Meta, YouTube, the KTH Climate Action Centre, Sigma Technology SEE, ASML, RISE and Auxilium Pentest Labs, a mix that spans big tech, deep-tech hardware and specialist security consultancies.

That range loosely tracks the catalogue's own weighting: ASML and RISE sit closer to hardware and applied research, while Auxilium Pentest Labs points toward the same cybersecurity discipline that anchors three of the 48 catalogued courses, alongside the five-course Data Protection group next to it. On the course side, Becoming a Cybersecurity Consultant is built around a specific professional profile too: the certification targets people who already have three years of practical cybersecurity experience or hold a relevant postgraduate degree, rather than complete beginners.

Non-EU/EEA graduates of a Belgian degree programme can apply for a search-year residence card, giving up to 12 months of unrestricted access to the Belgian labour market to look for work or start a company after finishing their studies, a route that applies to Master School graduates studying physically in Belgium. That combination of destinations underlines something prospective applicants tend to overlook: the degree doesn't route people into a single kind of job. Alongside consumer-platform roles at Meta and YouTube, the same alumni pool includes specialist security consultancy and applied hardware research, mirroring the spread of disciplines in the catalogue itself.

The visa route

EEA nationals, plus citizens of Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, do not need a visa to study in Belgium at all. Everyone else, including UK nationals since Brexit, needs a long-stay type D visa for any stay longer than 90 days; a standard tourist visa does not cover study. Study in Flanders puts the normal processing time at six to eight weeks, so applying early matters as much as the paperwork itself.

For 2026/27, the minimum proof of solvency is EUR 1,062 a month, shown through one of four accepted forms: a blocked university account or a bank guarantee deposit each holding twelve times the monthly minimum, a scholarship, or Annex 32 sponsorship.

Working while studying, and after

Non-EU/EEA students holding a valid student residence permit can work up to 20 hours a week during term time, and more during official academic holiday periods. After finishing a Belgian degree, eligible non-EU/EEA graduates can apply for a search-year card, filed at least 15 days before their existing residence card expires, giving up to 12 months of unrestricted labour-market access to look for work or start a business. The Immigration Office has 90 days to decide once an admissible application is filed.

The visa timeline and the Master School's own admissions timeline are worth reading together. Because decisions arrive across three separate application periods rather than all at once, an offer from the second or third period can leave less than the standard six-to-eight-week visa processing window before the semester starts, which is exactly why non-EU applicants are steered toward the first period rather than the last.