Foreign Student

As a foreign student you will have direct access to higher education if you already hold a Flemish diploma of secondary education or a diploma recognised as equivalent to it on the basis of a law, a decree, a European directive or an international convention.
Foreign students who have the required Flemish diploma are eligible, from a strictly legal point of view, for direct registration, even without previous application.

Obviously, most foreign students will have a foreign diploma or certificate. In order to qualify for admission, foreign diplomas must be officially recognised as equivalent with the Flemish by law, decree, European directive or international agreement. If this is the case, the candidates are eligible for enrolment. Information about this official recognition is available at the Belgian embassy.  Admittance is also granted to foreign students after individual assessment of their secondary education certificate or diploma, provided, of course, that it gives access to higher education in the student’s country of origin.
An admission procedure may take several months, so get going on it at least one full year before you plan to come here!

Foreign Exchange Student

Students from higher education institutions that have an Erasmus bilateral agreement with XIOS are welcome for a student exchange period at our university college. The application documents consist of:

• Application form
• Learning agreement
• Certificate of English proficiency, signed by the home university(level B1 is required)

The application procedure is online. All the forms must be filled in and uploaded in the Mobility Online portal.

Application deadlines:

• 01/06 for students applying for the 1st  semester (Autumn)
• 01/11 for students applying for the 2nd  semester (Spring)

The brochure with the courses for exchange students, as well as the ECTS files with more information on the content, can be downloaded from our XIOS website.

New procedure for Chinese students

From the academic year 2007-2008 onwards all students from the P.R. China will have to obtain a certificate of academic screening issued by the Academic Evaluation Centre (APS) of the German Embassy in Beijing before being allowed to enrol at any higher education institution, language course or other preparatory course in Flanders. The APS certificate is also required for obtaining a student visa to Belgium. Students planning to study in Flanders in 2007-2008 are advised to contact the Academic Evaluation Centre in Beijing, e-mail : info@aps.org.cn as soon as possible in order to make the necessary appointments and this before applying for a visa. 

More information on APS can be found at their website www.aps.org.cn