Composing and/or altering your academic programme

After registration, you need to compose and request your personal study programme for the (entire) upcoming academic year via your student portal. Please do this as soon as possible to avoid queues.

• Check the curriculum of your academic programme in detail first via uhasselt.be/studyguide.
  
  
• Then, carefully follow these step-by-step instructions (pdf, 3.2 MB) to compose and request your academic programme. 
  You are required to submit your request no later than September 15, 2025, the start of the 25-26 academic year.

Courses are offered once every year: in Semester 1 (=quartile 1+2) or Semester 2 (=quartile 3+4). 

Please note the following:

• The average study load (incl. lessons, projects, studying, exams, etc.) is about 27 hours per ECTS credit, spread out over the semester.
  
  
• You are not required to take up 60 ECTS credits (=standard programme) in one academic year. There's no minimum amount of ECTS credits you need to take up although you must fulfill the study progress measures at the end of each academic year.
  
  
• You can take up a maximum of 72 ECTS credits in one academic year. However, this is not advised.
  
  
• Select courses for the entire academic year, not only for the upcoming semester. During the academic year, it is still possible to alter your academic programme (see below).
  
  
• You will automatically gain access to the requested courses on Blackboard once you have submitted your study programme request via your student portal. Please note that not all courses may be available yet. These requests are processed individually and in chronological order, so official approval may take some time. However, if you have followed the instructions correctly, approval is usually just a formality. In the meantime, having access to your requested courses on Blackboard is sufficient.
  
  
• Taking up 54 ECTS credits is a minimum to be recognised as a student if you are in Belgium on a student visa. The only exception made is during your graduation year. 

• In the Master of Statistics and Data Science programme, an example of a part-time programme of around 30 ECTS credits to start your first year of the master is available via this link (study load of 750 to 900 hours).
• In the Master of Transportation Sciences by distance learning a student follows a programme of 36 to 48 ECTS credits per academic year.

You can still change your academic programme during the academic year. It is best to first contact your Academic Advisor before you make any changes.

Register extra course

Deadline: before the start of the course

Conditions: for prerequisites check the study guide

Consequences:

• Use of extra learning account
• Increased tuition fee
• Additional study load (see above)

How? 

Go to your student portal > maintain study routes > new academic programme (red button). You create a new version of your study programme. 

In the content section, click edit and select the new course. Then in the planning section, drag out the course you wish to deregister from (if any) and drag in the new one. Finally, return to content and submit.

⚠️ Please follow the instructions carefully, as you need to complete this independently. The submission date (not processing date) counts for the deadline.

Deregistering courses

You can only deregister from a course if you take up this course for the first time in the current academic year. (see EEL article art. 4.4 paragraph 1)

Deadline: deadline deregistering in the academic calendar

Consequences:

• Participation in the exam (first and second chance) is no longer possible
• Learning account refund
• Reimbursement of the variable part of the tuition fees
• First enrollment of the course will be annulled, so you can take this course again in the future without any consequences for the 'two enrollments rule' - study progress measures.
• Meeting prerequisites of courses. Check the prerequisites/sequentiality by clicking on each required course in the study guide.
• Consequences for your student visa/residence permit 
  Keep in mind that 54 credits is a minimum to be recognised as a student if you are in Belgium on a student visa. The only exception made is during your graduation year. Then you are allowed less than 54 credits. 

How? 

Go to your student portal > maintain study routes > new academic programme (red button). You create a new version of your study programme. 

In the content section, click edit and select the new course (if applicable). Then in the planning section, drag out the course you want to deregister from and, if desired, drag in a new one. Finally, return to content and submit.

⚠️ Please follow the instructions carefully, as you need to complete this independently. The submission date (not processing date) counts for the deadline.

Deregistering from the entire programme

On this page, you can find more information about how and when to withdraw from the entire programme, the consequences...