# Special Status for Students

**Source**: https://www.ugent.be/prospect/en/administration/application/special-status
**Parent**: https://www.ugent.be/prospect/en/administration/application

## Categories

The special status can be granted on the grounds of

1. [Disability](https://www.ugent.be/prospect/en/administration/application/special-status/functionalimpairment.htm)\
2. [Approved top-level sports activities](https://www.ugent.be/prospect/en/administration/application/special-status/toplevelsports.htm)\
3. [Professional artistry](https://www.ugent.be/prospect/en/administration/application/special-status/artistry.htm)\
4. [Holding office](https://www.ugent.be/prospect/en/administration/application/special-status/holdingoffice.htm)\
5. [Exceptional social or personal circumstances](https://www.ugent.be/prospect/en/administration/application/special-status/exeptionalcircumstances.htm)\
6. [Student entrepreneurship](https://www.ugent.be/prospect/en/administration/application/special-status/studententrepreneurship.htm)\
7. [Foreign-language speaker](https://www.ugent.be/prospect/en/administration/application/special-status/foreignlanguagespeaker.htm)

## Regulations

For details see article 25 of the [Education and Examination Code](https://www.ugent.be/student/en/class-exam-exchange-intern/class-exam/education-examination-code)

## Contact

[statuut@ugent.be](mailto:statuut@ugent.be)

## Related content

- [Step-by-step application special status](https://www.ugent.be/prospect/en/administration/application/special-status/step-by-step-plan-special-status.pdf)
- [Working Student Status](https://www.ugent.be/prospect/en/administration/application/special-status/workingstudentstatus.htm)