Before you apply
Registration as a guest student is only possible if there is a cooperation agreement for this between VUB and your current educational institution. Please only apply as a guest student if your home institution allows it.
Attention: Were you a guest student during the previous academic year? Guest students cannot re-enrol via the SelfService, and need to submit a new application if they wish to take courses at VUB again.
Deadline
Want to take VUB courses as a guest student? Make sure you apply before the deadline!
Available courses
Find an overview of the courses offered by each faculty. If there's no overview available, please contact the faculty for more information.
Social Sciences & Solvay Business School
Overview available courses (only in Dutch)
Law and Criminology
Overview available courses (only in Dutch)
Psychology and Educational Sciences
Medicine and Pharmacy
Contact the study path counselor
Languages and Humanities
Contact the study path counselor
Engineering
Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
Info for VUB Students: in this overview you’ll find more information which inter-university courses to register for at which university
Contact the faculty
Physical Education and Physiotherapy
During the second master of the Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy programme , 2 programmes are organised in cooperation with one or more other Flemish universities.
In this overview you'll find which inter-university courses to register for at which university. To register courses at another university, please consult their website for deadlines and procedures.
Exchange courses between VUB & ULB
Want to take a course at ULB as a VUB student? Or are you a ULB student looking to take a course at VUB?
How to apply as a guest student
Submit your application online.
During the application process, you will be asked to provide the document 'Guest student' (filled out).
Find the document here
After your application
The student administration and the organizing faculty will evaluate your application and may approve or deny it. You will be contacted in the case of an unfavourable decision. Please note that successful enrolment does not necessarily mean that all your courses are automatically approved. If a course is not part of the cooperation agreement, the faculty reserves the right to deny your request.
Status
You can always log back in to the application tool to check your application status in the 'overview'. As soon as you're fully enrolled as a guest student, you will receive a VUB account to access all online VUB platforms.
Course registration
If you are already enrolled as a guest student, but wish to add more courses after your initial enrolment, please contact your faculty so they can approve and register these additional courses. You can also request 2nd semester courses this way if you were already enrolled in the 1st semester, since your enrolment is valid for the entire academic year.
Good to know
Transcript of records
If you are enrolled as a guest student, you will not receive a transcript of records. You will receive your results from your home institution. You can view your grades in the Student SelfService.
Tuition fee
You do not need to pay tuition fee for the course(s) you follow as a guest student at the VUB.
Re-enrolling
Guest students must submit a new application each year to be allowed to re-enrol.
Exchange or internship students
Exchange students are not considered 'guest students', as their application goes via the online Mobility platform. Exchange or Erasmus students, as well as traineeship or internship students from abroad may contact exchange.incoming@vub.be for more information. Domestic traineeship or intership students, or guest students with a CSC scholarship and incoming PhD scholars may use this application form.