UWC Maastricht is part of the Dutch national education system, thus all students get the same financial support from the Dutch government as any other student in the Netherlands. The school was created as a center for all the national committee students from Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands to be the prime example, being around 25 percent of the whole school population. Based on the wide experience of the United World Colleges and the International School Maastricht, the UWC Maastricht will act as a Center for Expertise for Community Services (Expertise Centrum voor Maatschappelijke Stages).