Application / registration fees
- No separate application fee is charged by the school for admission to its Fachmittelschule; applications are handled through the Canton Aargau online registration system (Departement Bildung, Kultur und Sport).
- General annual enrolment charges that may apply to certain canton/Inter‑canton arrangements (for example, small administrative/enrolment levies used in some cantonal rules) are governed at cantonal/regulatory level; standard practice for cantonally resident pupils is that no regular tuition is charged by the Kantonsschule.
Tuition / school fees by programme and year group
- Day‑school (cantonal) gymnasium for pupils with residence in the Canton Aargau: no routine tuition (no annual school fee) is charged to in‑canton resident students. Regular schooling costs are covered by the canton.
- For pupils from other cantons (extra‑cantonal / inter‑cantonal billing) the agreed reference school‑fee levels (Regionales Schulabkommen / RSA) apply and are expressed as annual and semester amounts. The published benchmark figures used in the RSA for comparable upper‑secondary Maturitätsschulen are:
- Standard Maturitätsschule (per school year): CHF 20,500. Per semester: CHF 10,250.
- Immersion / double‑diploma programmes (Swiss Maturität + IB) listed with a higher reference: CHF 22,500 per year; CHF 11,250 per semester. (This applies to the immersion / double‑diploma offering at the Kantonsschule Wettingen as listed in the RSA table.)
- Fachmittelschule (FMS) – extra‑cantonal reference levels shown in the regional schedule are typically lower than gymnasial Matura levels; published RSA reference examples list CHF 18,000 per year (CHF 9,000 per semester) for standard FMS programmes.
- International Baccalaureate (IB) component: the school offers an immersion / double‑diploma (Swiss Matura + IB) pathway. External IB assessment/examination fees are charged separately (per‑candidate and per‑subject) and are set by the IB organisation and/or by the invoicing arrangements under which the school registers candidates; the RSA entry above records the higher inter‑cantonal reference level for the double‑diploma programme.
Per‑term / per‑semester billing
- Where a fee is charged under the RSA framework the amounts are presented both as an annual sum and as a per‑semester amount (examples above: CHF 20,500 / CHF 10,250 and CHF 22,500 / CHF 11,250).
- Paid freifächer and instrument lessons at the Gymnasium are billed per semester: instrumental freifach options are offered on a paid basis and the published per‑semester amounts for freifach instrumental instruction are CHF 500 (half lesson, ~22.5') or CHF 1,000 (whole lesson, ~45') per semester. Students who choose a freifach commit for the full school year.
Boarding / boarding fees
- The Kantonsschule Wettingen is organised as a cantonal day school and does not operate a school boarding (internat) provision; no boarding fees apply.
Other costs and compulsory optional fees
- Instrumental freifach (see amounts above) when taken as a paid freifach: CHF 500 per semester for a half lesson or CHF 1,000 per semester for a whole lesson.
- External language‑certificate preparation courses and certification: candidates pay the external examination registration costs themselves; typical external exam costs for DELF / DALF / Cambridge / DELE / PLIDA etc. are in the range of about CHF 250–450 depending on the exam and level. Students are responsible for these exam registration fees.
- Freifach commitment: signing up for a freifach (including instrumental or language freifächer) is a commitment for the full school year; any freifach that is charged is billed per the freifach/instrumental schedule.
- Other irregular costs that families commonly pay at cantonal upper‑secondary schools (where applicable) include costs for voluntary trips, excursions, optionally booked language stays, printed materials, special course materials, and any required licences or external assessment fees (e.g., IB exam entries). Those items are billed separately if/when they occur.
Refunds and withdrawal / cancellation charges
- No general, published school‑wide refund schedule or detailed cancellation policy for tuition/fees (for example for deposits or freifach fees) is published on the standard programme pages. Instrumental freifach fees are expressed as per semester charges and freifach enrolment is a year commitment. For fee items governed by cantonal / inter‑cantonal agreements the billing is made under the RSA and cantonal rules.
Fee payment methods and payment terms
- Instrumental freifach and other paid freifach charges are described as per‑semester amounts; the school's pages show the fee amounts and the annual commitment but do not publish a single consolidated payment‑methods list on the publicly visible freifach/instrumental pages. Where inter‑cantonal school fees apply they are expressed as annual and semester amounts.
Brief note on items not explicitly published
- The school's public programme pages specify which items are charged (instrumental freifächer; external exam registrations; inter‑cantonal school fees per RSA) and give per‑semester or per‑year figures where those apply; a consolidated, line‑by‑line, school‑wide fee schedule (covering payment methods, invoice dates, refund table, or a single application fee figure) is not published on the same programme pages. The items above reflect the explicit fee figures and billing units that are published for the programmes and options offered.
