The beginning of the new academic year 2026-2027 is approaching, and many universities and educational institutions are offering potential future entrants or those simply wishing to improve their professional level of training in their individual programs, courses, and trainings.
As a result, many men of military age who are subject to military service and who, for one reason or another, were unable to enroll in full-time studies at Ukrainian universities, are considering individual training programs lasting 2-6 months as an opportunity to obtain a deferment for this period.
However, whether such a program gives the right to a deferral of education, which is different from a full-fledged education, and whether it is actually possible to obtain a short-term deferral, we will analyze in this article below based on mobilization legislation together with a military lawyer.
When a reprieve is granted: the letter of the law
The granting of a deferral from mobilization is regulated by a single regulatory document, namely Article 23 of the Law of Ukraine “On Mobilization Preparation and Mobilization”, and the procedure for obtaining a deferral through a Certificate from the Unified State Examination Board is also separately specified in Resolution No. 560 .
The law clearly defines which form of education provides the right to deferment, namely, deferment under the Law is granted only to those applicants for professional, pre-university and higher education who study full-time or dual education.
That is, obtaining education should have an exclusively full-fledged educational process in the form of obtaining professional, pre-university or higher education, and the learning process itself should take place in a full-time or dual form.
Why don’t courses, trainings or seminars qualify for a deferral?
All short-term and narrowly profiled forms of acquiring knowledge, such as courses, trainings or seminars, do not belong to the full-fledged acquisition of education according to the general term of the academic year , but are intended only to train the knowledge seeker in some segment of improving skills, upon completion of which you will receive a certificate, diploma or maximum honors from the educational institution for the completed course.
If your goal is to receive a deferral as a student, you must begin a full-fledged acquisition of a specialized educational level of knowledge, which ends with the awarding of a diploma for the entire educational level obtained.
Previously, we also wrote: Does previous education (who studied) matter for the deferral from September 1, 2026 , and also Deferral for contract students from September 1: a lawyer pointed out an important nuance that not everyone knows about .
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