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 institutions with which the XIOS Hogeschool Limburg has exchange agreements are very welcome. The XIOS Hogeschool Limburg has bilateral agreements with several European institutions. There are no scholarships available at the XIOS Hogeschool Limburg.

If your home institution has a bilateral agreement with the XIOS Hogeschool Limburg,  you can contact your International Office and ask them to help you. Students within a European Exchange Program have to fill in the proper Application Form (doc) before June 15^th (1^st semester) and before November 1^st (2^nd semester).

Together with this Application Form a Learning Agreement (doc) (drawn up between the teaching staff of the sending and receiving institution) must be sent to the XIOS Hogeschool Limburg.

Forms:

Application Form (doc)
Learning Agreement (doc) 

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