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Article 96 of the Decree of 07/11/2013

Appeal procedure against refusal of re-enrolment for students enrolled at ULB during the previous academic year

If, following the end of your second assessment session, you receive an email notifying you that you are not authorised to re-enrol in the same study programme, you may submit an appeal against this refusal of admission to the Vice-Rector for Student Affairs.

You must wait until you receive the notification of refusal of enrolment by email before submitting an appeal.

The exemption request must be submitted online within 15 calendar days from the day following notification of the refusal of admission. 

Consult information relating to the exemption request procedure (submission procedure, contents of the file, required documents)

Appeal procedure against refusal of admission for students not enrolled at ULB during the previous academic year

If, following an online application for the 2025–2026 academic year, your application for admission was refused because you are considered academically non-fundable, you may submit an appeal against this refusal of admission to the Vice-Rector for Student Affairs.

The appeal procedure must be completed online via your application portal in the “Exemptions from refusal of enrolment” tab (available from 1 September).

Consult information relating to the exemption request procedure (submission procedure, contents of the file, required documents)

Please note: to submit your appeal request, you must first have submitted an application for admission to ULB and received the refusal of admission email.  

Article 102 of the Decree of 07/11/2013

Have you received an email from ULB informing you that your enrolment has been cancelled due to non-payment before the deadline?

If you wish, you may submit an appeal to the Government Commissioner. To be admissible, the appeal must comply with the following conditions:

be submitted within 15 working days from the date the above-mentioned email was sent:

• either delivered by hand against a signed acknowledgement of receipt from a member of the Government Commissioner’s office;
• or sent by registered mail with acknowledgement of receipt to the following address (Boulevard de la Cambre 62, 1000 Brussels);
• or sent by email (delgov@ulb.ac.be), the date of receipt by the email service being considered valid proof;

include the following information:

• your identity, namely:
  • surname;
  • first name(s);
  • nationality;
• your contact details, namely:
  • address;
  • telephone number(s);
  • email address;
• information relating to your enrolment request:
  • institution concerned (ULB);
  • name of the studies concerned by the enrolment request;
  • relevant academic year;
• the purpose and grounds for the appeal;
• a copy of the contested enrolment cancellation decision (the above-mentioned email).

The Government Commissioner will assess the admissibility of your appeal in accordance with the formal requirements and deadlines mentioned above. You will be informed of the decision either by registered mail with acknowledgement of receipt or by email. If your appeal is deemed:

• inadmissible → the procedure ends at this stage. You will not be able to enrol. The Government Commissioner will inform ULB of the decision in writing;
• admissible → the decision will be reasoned.
  • confirm the enrolment cancellation decision. In this case, you will not be able to enrol;
  • invalidate the enrolment cancellation decision. In this case, to enrol, you must complete the required procedures with ULB within 7 working days from the date the decision was sent.

Please note: a positive decision from the Government Commissioner does not exempt you from completing the necessary procedures to enrol at ULB.

Article 27 §1 §3 of the General Study Regulations and Article 95 of the Decree of 07/11/2013

If an enrolment request is declared “inadmissible”, the candidate may submit an external appeal to the Government Commissioner.

To be admissible, your appeal to the Government Commissioner must comply with the following conditions:

• be submitted within 15 working days from the date the disenrolment email was sent:
  • either delivered by hand against a signed acknowledgement of receipt from a member of the Government Commissioner’s office;
  • or sent by registered mail with acknowledgement of receipt to the following address (Boulevard de la Cambre 62, 1000 Brussels);
  • or sent by email (delgov@ulb.ac.be), the date of receipt by the email service being considered valid proof;
• include the following information:
  • your identity: surname, first name(s) and nationality;
  • your contact details: address, telephone number(s), email address;
  • information relating to your enrolment request: institution concerned (ULB), name of the studies concerned by the enrolment request, relevant academic year;
• state the purpose and grounds for the appeal;
• attach a copy of the contested enrolment cancellation decision (ULB email).

The Government Commissioner will assess the admissibility of your appeal in accordance with the formal requirements and deadlines mentioned above. You will be informed of the decision either by registered mail with acknowledgement of receipt or by email.

Article 27 of the General Study Regulations – If an enrolment request is declared “inadmissible”, the candidate may submit an external appeal to the Government Commissioner.

Please note: the appeal may never be based on the assessment made by the competent academic authorities regarding admission requests, namely academic reasons invoked by the examining board.

Articles 27 & 28 of the General Study Regulations
To be admissible, your appeal to the Government Commissioner must comply with the following conditions:

• be submitted:
  • either delivered by hand against a signed acknowledgement of receipt from a member of the Government Commissioner’s office;
  • or sent by registered mail with acknowledgement of receipt to the following address (Boulevard de la Cambre 62, 1000 Brussels);
  • or sent by email (delgov@ulb.ac.be), the date of receipt by the email service being considered valid proof.

Article 29 §1 §3

An internal appeal may be submitted to the Vice-Rector for Student Affairs within ten calendar days from the day following notification of the refusal, in accordance with the procedures defined in Appendix 1.

As a final resort, following notification of the rejection of the internal appeal submitted to the Vice-Rector for Student Affairs, the student has fifteen working days to challenge the decision before the commission established for this purpose within ARES (see Appendix 1, points 1.3.1 and 1.3.2).

Article 27 of the General Study Regulations

To be admissible, your appeal to the Government Commissioner must comply with the conditions mentioned above.

If the Enrolment Office refuses enrolment in a quota-restricted programme, the student wishing to enrol may submit an appeal against this refusal within ten calendar days from the day following notification of the refusal. The request must be sent by email to Direction.Service.Inscriptions@ulb.ac.be and must highlight exceptional non-academic circumstances likely to explain the situation.

The student must compile a file including a letter explaining why they believe they should benefit from an exemption, documents supporting the grounds invoked and proving their exceptional nature, and any other document deemed useful for the analysis of the request.

The file must be complete when the email is sent to the Enrolment Office.

There is no appeal procedure for this type of refusal of enrolment.