APPLICATION PROCESS

1. NOMINATION BY THE SENDING INSTITUTION 

To be an exchange student, you must be selected by your home institution. Once you are selected, your home coordinator has to nominate you. Faculty of Social Sciences accepts online nominations.

Please nominate your students here!

2. REGISTRATION BY THE STUDENT 

After you were nominated, you will be informed via e-mail about the application process.

Step 1:  Fill in the online application form

Step 2: Prepare your study plan (preliminary list of courses you wish to study at ELTE, not the Learning Agreement) and send it to the international@tatk.elte.hu e-mail address as an e-mail attachment (pdf or doc format).

• You should choose two-thirds of your courses from Faculty of Social Sciences, the remaining can be chosen from other faculties (maximum 10 ECTS)

• The exact timetable contains date, time and place of the courses will be communicated in the beginning of each semester. Therefore, the study plan is considered as a preliminary list that can be modified.

• Your home institution specifies your workload. They usually require you to gain 30 ECTS credits per semester, but it can differ according to your university's requirements.

• Undergraduate students (BA/BSc) are not entitled to choose MA programmes’ courses.

• If you wish to follow courses in Hungarian, please contact us via e-mail.

TO-DO’S BEFORE YOU ARRIVE AT ELTE

If you have been accepted at Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Social Sciences, you can start to organise your stay in Budapest.

• Check the academic calendar

• Ask for a mentor (optional)

• Prepare your Learning Agreement (for Erasmus+ students)

• Apply for a visa to Hungary (for non-EEA students)

• Arrange a travel and health insurance for the period until you enroll at ELTE

• Arrange your travel to Hungary

• Arrange accommodation in Budapest

• Read all “Practical matters” on our homepage

• Read the academic regulations at ELTE

• Follow the life of the University on social media

The exact timetable contains date, time and place of the courses will be communicated in the beginning of each semester. Therefore, you are allowed to modify your Learning Agreement during the semester, according to your final course list chosen at ELTE.

TO-DO’S RIGHT AFTER YOU ARRIVE AT ELTE

• Meet your mentor (optional)

• Personal registration (details are sent via email)

• Attend on the faculty organised Orientation Day (details are sent via email)

• Register for your courses via Neptun (details are sent via email)

• Get your residence permit card (for non-EEA students)

• Request a (temporary) student ID

• Attend the Orientation Week’s programmes

• Read more information: University life 

AT THE END OF YOUR MOBILITY

Your closing documents (transcript of records, certificate of attendance) can be prepared only after you have completed the following steps.

1. Check your grades in the Neptun at Exams/Taken exams and at Studies/ Gradebook by choosing the current semester.

2. Please check in the Neptun/Finances and fulfil payment obligations if you have, because transcript of records cannot be issued in case of outstanding balance. How to pay your fees.