Graduating in February

Every year in February, an additional deliberation is held for students in a graduation year who have completed all their examinations at that time (Education and Examination Code article 62).

In this case, it is allowed to submit the Master’s dissertation and/or complete the traineeship in the first semester. With the exception of the Master’s dissertation and/or traineeship, the Education and Examination Code does not allow second-term or full-year course units to be assessed in the first term, unless the course unit is only assessed through continuous assessment and the lecturer-in-charge agrees to allow that assessment to take place in the first semester.

Please note: students who do not pass the master’s dissertation/traineeship in the first semester cannot participate in the second-term examination period for this course unit, but they can participate in the resit examination period (August - September).

An assessment of a 100% continuous second-term or full-year course unit in the first-term examination period is only permitted after a substantiated request by the student. Students who wish to make use of this option should notify the lecturer-in-charge and the Faculty Student Administration (fsa.lw@ugent.be) no later than the start of the first-term examination period.