After acceptance

Acceptance and enrolment are two different things.

• A free programme becomes active on acceptance — the coursework is open immediately.
• A priced programme becomes accepted, awaiting payment. Content unlocks once payment is recorded.

Your programme card and your dashboard both show which state you are in.

Paying

Payment happens in the portal, from the programme card. Card payment is handled by the payment provider — the university never sees or stores your card details. A receipt and an invoice are issued to your account, and both remain downloadable afterwards.

Prices are shown on the catalogue card before you apply, inclusive of VAT where it applies. There are no charges beyond the price shown: no application fee, no examination fee, no certificate fee.

What each programme costs

A bootcamp is priced by how long it runs; a degree by how far its ladder goes. A programme that stops at the doctorate costs less than one that continues through the post-doctoral stages, because the second is more taught weeks of work.

Enrolment prices

What you enrol in	Price
Bootcamp A short, practical, self-contained course.	€4.95
Signals credential A bootcamp-tier security credential (double for the domain).	€9.90
Master's degree (MSc) A taught master's programme.	€9.95
Master's degree (MSc) — security domain A taught security master's — double the base MSc price.	€19.90
Doctorate (PhD) The advanced track of a discipline.	€19.95
Doctorate (PhD) — security domain The advanced security track — double the base PhD price.	€39.90

The catalogue card is always the authority for a given programme — this table is generated from the same price list, so the two cannot disagree.

Coupons

A voucher code, where you have one, is entered at checkout and the total updates before you confirm. A full-discount code completes the enrolment without a payment step.

Withdrawing, suspension and refunds

You may withdraw from a programme; it is then closed and can be applied for again later. An enrolment can also be suspended by staff — for example while a question about integrity is resolved.

Refunds are not automated. If you believe you are owed one, write to the address in Contact with the invoice number. That is a human decision, not a button.

Which version of the programme you are on

A programme has content versions — v0 while it is a pilot, v1 when it is first announced publicly, and one more each time a release closes an academic year. The catalogue shows the version a programme is on today.

Your enrolment is pinned to the version that was current when you enrolled, and your dashboard shows it as a small chip beside the programme name. The pin is for life: it does not expire, and a newer release never revokes your access to the one you bought.

A programme's full release history — every version, its state, its date, and what changed in it — is on the programme's page in the catalogue, under What changed. If a newer release exists, the same page says how many there have been and lists them, so you can see what you would be joining if you ever re-enrol.

Some releases changed the academic year rather than the material. A release with no note recorded still appears, dated: the version and the date are the fact, and the description is commentary that was not always written down.

What changes if you re-enrol

If your programme has released since you enrolled, the version chip beside its name on your dashboard links to a page of its own: What changes if I re-enrol? (also reachable from the programme's catalogue page, at /catalogue/<programme>/version). It shows two things and nothing else — the version your enrolment records against the version the programme is on now, and every release in between, with its date and whatever was written about it.

The comparison is built from the release ledger, not from the course files. It tells you what the university recorded about each release. It is not a diff of the material, and a release with no note recorded will say so rather than invent one.

At the bottom of that page there may be a button to move your enrolment to the newest version. Four things about it are worth knowing before you press it:

• It is opt-in, always. Your pinned version never moves on its own. Nothing the university does — a new release, a flag being flipped, a payment, a password reset — rewrites it. Only you, on that page, with the box ticked.
• It changes a label, not your access. Which material you can open has never depended on your pinned version, and does not now.
• There is no undo on that page. Ask through Contact if you moved by mistake; it is a human correction, not a button.
• It may not be offered at all. The button appears only when the university has opened the option, when you are actually behind, and when your enrolment is still open. If it is not there, the page says which of those is the reason.

If the programme publishes another release while that page is sitting open, the move is refused rather than carried through — you would be agreeing to a version you had not read. Reload, read the new entry, and choose again.

Every move, and every refused attempt, is recorded in the portal's activity log with your account and the two versions. That record is the reason the answer to "why does my enrolment say v3?" is always available.

What "completed" means

A programme is complete when its phases are complete: the reading, the labs, the quizzes and the exam, plus the capstone in longer formats. Marks are computed from the work you submit — no one grades you by hand, and no one can raise a mark on request.

Completion issues a credential you can share, and anyone can verify it at https://www.cortex-university.com/verify without an account.