The second semester comprises also 13 weeks of educational and study activities, but is interrupted by 2 weeks of Easter holiday. The 13 weeks are to be followed by 2 weeks of individual study, 3 weeks of examinations and 1 week of deliberations. The summer break of 6 weeks is to followed by the second examination period, which consists of 3 weeks of examinations. Some of courses need 4 weeks of examinations; in that case the summer break takes only 5 weeks. The examinations are followed by 1 week of deliberations. Between the end of the deliberations and the beginning of the new first semester one of free week remains.

Visa:

Foreign students (Are from outside of the European Union) who wish to study in Belgium must in principle file a student visa in application with the Belgian the country of origin.  Information may be obtained from the said representation or from the Foreigners Office in the Belgium.

Degrees: 2nd and 3rd cycles

Students who are hold a foreign higher degree and who wish to sign up for a master must file a request with the establishment in which they want to register.  They will be eventually valorizing credits acquired after the first cycle abroad and so reduce the duration of their master programmed.

Students who are hold a foreign degree and who wish to sign up at a university for an advanced master or postgraduate studies (doctorate) must be either obtain a valuation for their degree of at least 300 credits from the university panel or full equivalence of their degree with a master or the advanced master from the Ministry of the French Community.

A certificate of equivalence for their secondary education credentials against the corresponding credentials issued in the French Community of Belgium is required for foreign students who wish to enroll in a first cycle of higher education at an institute of higher education, a college of the arts, or for one of the years of the first cycle of studies on organized by universities or higher institutes of architecture. Foreign students must pass an entrance exam (art college, engineering sciences) or an examination at the end of their first year of studies in order to pursue certain fields of study in the same way as Belgian students (medicine and dentistry studies). Furthermore, quotas for international students govern entry to some first-cycle study programmed.