In order to be admitted to study at the University of Pardubice, Czech law requires verification of previous foreign education. Either you already have nostrification of your previous foreign education or you can apply for an assessment of your previous foreign education as part of the admissions procedure at the faculty to which you are applying. Your documents must be translated into Czech or English (or original Slovak) and legalized. The assessment of your foreign education as part of the admissions procedure involves a fee of 600 CZK for each faculty you apply to.
This process applies above is only to University of Pardubice applicants.
If you need to recognise your foreign education for another reason (so-called nostrification), you can find information at:
https://www.upce.cz/en/nostrification-process
Documents you need to submit depend on what level of education you are applying for:
- Bachelor's programme – your high school diploma
- Master's programme – your Bachelor’s diploma including diploma supplement
- PhD programme – your Master’s diploma including diploma supplement
Please continue below:
How to verify my education?
I got the previous education in...
Is language of your diploma Czech, Slovak or English?
Based on your selection:
Step A - Legalisation
- The University will accept your documents legalised by an apostille. Check the exact process of how to get an apostille in a certain country.
- UPa will accept your superlegalised documents. Superlegalisation means the authenticity of signatures and seals are first legalised by the government (of the country of origin of the documents). This is usually a multiple-step process depending on the legislature of each individual government but the last step is done by the ministry of foreign affairs. The second step is to have the document legalised by the Czech embassy.
- Option A) - A copy certified by a notary or Czech embassy will be accepted if at least one of the following conditions is fulfilled:
- Institution which issued the diploma will upon request confirm via e-mail that the applicant is its alumni
- Institution will send the applicant's transcript or diploma supplement in a sealed envelope or the applicant submits the transcript in a sealed envelope
- Official website of the institution allows confirmation that the applicant is its alumni (e.g. the option to download their transcript after inputing a password to the official website
- Option B) The University will accept your documents legalised by an apostille. Check the exact process of how to get an apostille in a certain country.
- Option A)
A copy certified by a notary or Czech embassy will be accepted if at least one of the following conditions is fulfilled:- Institution which issued the diploma will confirm via e-mail that the applicant is its alumni upon their request.
- Institution will send the applicants transcript or diploma supplement in a sealed envelope or the applicant submits the transcript in a sealed envelope
- Official website of the institution allows confirmation that the applicant is its alumni (e.g. the option to download their transcript after inputing a password to the official website
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Option B)
- The University will accept your superlegalised documents. Superlegalisation means the authenticity of signatures and seals are first legalised by the government (of the country of origin of the documents). This is usually a multiple-step process depending on the legislature of each individual government but the last step is done by the ministry of foreign affairs. The second step is to legalise the document by Czech embassy.
- UPa will accept your documents. The education verification process is not required.
- UPa will accept your documents. The education verification process is not required.
- Further legalisation is not necessary. You can continue to Step B with a copy certified by a notary or Czech embassy or the original documents - originals will not be returned.
- Option A) - A copy certified by a notary or Czech embassy will be accepted if at least one of the following conditions is fulfilled:
- Institution which issued the diploma will confirm via e-mail that the applicant is its alumni upon their request.
- Institution will send the applicants transcript or diploma supplement in a sealed envelope or the applicant submits the transcript in a sealed envelope
- Official website of the institution allows confirmation that the applicant is its alumni (e.g. the option to download their transcript after inputing a password to the official website)
- Option B) The University will accept your documents legalized by an apostile. Check the exact process of how to get an apostille in a certain country.
Step B - Translation
- The University will accept documents in their original Language. Translation is not neccessary.