Access conditions Advanced Master — Outside EU
Remarks
- If you have a Belgian CESS, or if you meet one of the assimilation criteria, you benefit from the same conditions as European Union students.
- For any admission to a Master of Science degree for the academic year 2026-2027, please first check whether the Master of Science degree you wish to apply for is organised in co-degree with partner institutions. Registration must always be done at the referring institution. If the University of Liège is not the referring institution, please contact the referring institution to find out about the registration procedures. See: Referring institutions for joint degree specialisation masters
Administrative requirements
1. The applicant submits his or her application from 18 February 2026 to 31 March 2026
All required documents must be submitted to the University before 1st April. Once all the documents have been uploaded, you must validate your application, otherwise it will not be examined.
Note:
If you wish to apply to a quota track (veterinary medicine, physical therapy, speech therapy, medicine and dental sciences), you are not subject to the March 31 deadline. You must comply with the terms and conditions (draw, entrance exam, etc.).
For more information: www.enseignement.uliege.be/etudes-quota.
2. The applicant submits his or her own application online
Applications for which an intermediary is identified will be automatically refused. You will be asked to provide your postal address in your country of origin, your private e-mail address and your cell phone number. You may be contacted by the President of the Jury or by the Enrollment and Admissions Department via Whatsapp or any other video conferencing application.
Indeed, we notice that students, mainly of Cameroonian origin, are victims of fraud by intermediaries who offer their services for a fee in order to facilitate their admission and who sometimes produce false documents, which results in the exclusion of the candidate concerned from any institution of higher education for a period of 3 years.
3. The candidate completes and signs an attestation of awareness of the measures decided by the ULiège in the context of the fight against registration fraud
4. The applicant may submit only one application per academic year
You can therefore only apply for one program.
5. The candidate must respect the legal conditions of access to the advanced master
The legal conditions of access to the advanced master are set by article 112 of the "Landscape" decree.
6. The candidate must have the required language skills
You must, if applicable, provide proof of a B2 level in the language of instruction (French or English).
Exemptions:
The following students may be exempted from providing proof of proficiency in the language of the program:
- Students whose native language is the language of the program.
- Students who have—or have acquired—the nationality of a country whose official language is the language of the program.
- Students who have obtained a degree or successfully completed a year of higher education in the language of the program.
Specific language requirements can be found in the course syllabus and acces requirements.
Accepted tests:
If the jury of the program concerned requires proof of passing a standardized test, the following proofs will be accepted:
- DALF, DELF, TEF or TCF if the language of instruction is French.
- TOEFL iBT, IELTS, Cambridge FCE or Cambridge CAE, if the language of instruction is English (only tests with a photo and less than 2 years old will be accepted).
If you wish to begin teacher training (Master's degree in teaching, section 4 or 5), you must provide proof of C1 level proficiency in French.
Here are the tests and scores accepted (corresponding to B2)
| TESTS | SCORES B2 |
| IELTS | 5,5 - 6,5 |
| TOEFL iBTS | Before 2019 : 87 - 109 After 2019 : 72 - 95 From 2026 : 4 |
| Cambrigde FCE (First Certificate in English) | > 160 |
| Cambrigde CAE (Certificate of Advanced English) | > 180 |
More strict or specific criteria (in terms of scores and/or accepted tests) may be set by some Faculties. Students are invited to consult the academic conditions available below.
7. The candidate pays an administrative fee of 200 euros
If you are authorized to register for the academic year in question, this amount will be deducted from registration fees. In all other cases, these fees will be retained by the Université of Liège and cannot be refunded or deferred. You must therefore check beforehand that you meet the admission requirements.
Assimilated student, doctoral students, students coming under an international co-degree program and holders of an FWB higher diploma are exempt from paying this administrative fee.
If you consider yourself an assimilated student, you will only be exempted from payment of this fee if you can prove this by providing the required documents.
8. The candidate provides the University with a financing plan
The candidate must provide a financing plan (official proof required) that attests to sufficient resources to carry out his/her studies: €10,000 + registration fee (depending on the candidate's nationality).
If, at the end of the application process, the candidate receives an authorisation to register, he/she may request the deposit of the required legal amount in a blocked account from the University in order to prove his/her solvency to obtain a visa for Belgium.
Minimum academic requirements
In addition to the legal conditions of access to studies and the administrative conditions listed above, the Registration and Admissions Office verifies that students of non-European Union nationality meet certain academic conditions set by the Juries. Only applications that meet these academic requirements will be examined by the admissions committees.
These conditions do not apply to non-EU students who fall into one of the following categories:
- "assimilated" students (e.g.: refugees and asylum seekers);
- students who hold a Belgian Certificate of Higher Secondary Education;
- students with a diploma obtained in a higher education institution of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (application for registration in the framework of the "Passerelles" decree);
- students who apply for registration in an undergraduate course subject to selection in application of the "non-resident" decree (veterinary, physiotherapy, speech therapy, medicine and dental sciences);
- students legally residing in Belgium and subject to the entrance examination for engineering studies;
- students who apply for registration on the basis of a recent diploma (from the current academic year or from the two previous academic years) obtained in a country of the European Union outside the WBF.
Here are the minimum academic requirements for admission to the advanced master's programme, listed by faculty:
Medecine and Dental Sciences
Competition since the academic year 2023
Please note that since the 2023-2024 academic year, this entrance exam is replaced by a competitive examination. This web page will be updated as soon as possible. In the meantime, please consult the portal:
In addition, only students with an admission certificate for the relevant specialisation studies, issued by a special inter-university jury after a selection test, have access to the specialisation masters in medicine. In fact, only a predetermined number of new doctors can gain access each year to general or specialised medical practice under conditions that allow their patients to obtain reimbursement for the care received.
Submit your application via our online form before 31 March 2026 at the latest
If you meet the administrative and academic conditions described above, you can complete the online form, pay the administrative fees of 200 euros and finally upload the requested documents at the end of the form, before 31 March (the deadline for receiving the files). The payment of the 200 euros administrative fees (all bank charges at your expense) conditions the examination of the file.
Once the form has been submitted and if your application has been accepted, the letter of authorization will be sent to you by e-mail and will specify the terms of your final registration (before 30 September 2026) as well as the amount of your registration fee.
No action will be taken on incomplete or late applications, or those that do not meet the administrative and academic criteria.
The University of Liège reserves the right to require, as part of the registration procedures, the presentation of the originals of diplomas and transcripts.
The authorities verify the authenticity of the declarations and produced documents. In case of doubt, further information and/or documents will be required. Any detected forgery leads to disciplinary porceedings (see art. 27 of the General Regulations for Studies and Examinations).
Fundability
Universities in the French Community of Belgium may refuse the registration application of a non-fundable student on the basis of his or her academic record (cf. art. 5 of the decree of 11 April 2014).
This measure applies in particular to students who already have a certain number of registrations in the same course of study (without having obtained a degree).
In addition, students who enrol in a course of study after failing twice in a competitive examination or any test enabling them to undertake or continue higher education in the same course of study are not eligible for funding.
Online Form
The ULiège registration form has been redesigned. If you wish to submit a registration or admission application, please do so using our new online form.
If you had already created an application before 27 January, you can continue it here.
See also:
Referring institutions for specialised master's degree holders in co-degree
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