Students with a Specific Enrolment Status

What is Specific Enrolment Status?

Where you fulfil any of the special conditions set out in the the Academic Regulations, you may request permission to take your programme with a specific enrolment status. In this way, you may reduce the minimum number of credits to enrol and pass per year, adapt assessments on different pathways, etc.

Qualifying Circumstances for Specific Enrolment Status

You must accredit any of the following circumstances in order to qualify for specific enrolment status:

  1. Being in employment with an equivalent working day to at least half the ordinary full-time working day
  2. Having a physical, sensory or psychological disability with a level equal to or above 33%
  3. Being 45 years of age or above at the start of the academic year
  4. Having family protection status or caring for dependents
  5. Being a high-level or high-performance athlete
  6. Being enrolled full-time for the current academic year on an official advanced programme in the arts, in any specialisations
  7. Having a serious illness or having been in an accident that impedes full-time status on a university programme
  8. Having or being an applicant for international protection
  9. Accrediting victim of gender-based violence status.
  10. Being in any other extraordinary situation the relevant body deems a determining factor to be granted specific enrolment status on the programme.

Most of these circumstances must be accredited on a yearly basis to renew specific enrolment status. Whilst some only require one-time accreditation, students must inform the university in the event of any change in their circumstances.

New Students

In order to enrol with a specific status, it must already be accredited on your admission application or, where your circumstances change during the academic year, you must submit a request.

Returning Students and Direct Admission

In order to enrol with specific status, you must submit a request to renew the status awarded in previous academic years or be granted it for the first time. The deadline period for requests runs from 20th July to 16th October 2025.

Changes in Circumstances during the Academic Year

If students' circumstances change in the first semester, they may request specific status:

  • Where the request is made before the start of the addition of courses period on the master's programme, the following may be amended: the number of second-semester credits and the academic conditions for second-semester subjects
  • Where the request is made up to 10 days after the start of academic activities for each semester on the master's programme, the status may be applied to subjects in a semester for the purpose of specific assessment pathways.

More Information

Please see the specific procedure.