Completed secondary education
One of the conditions for being able to study at a university level, and hence for enrolling to our bachelor programme, is that the applicant has to prove the completion of secondary education.
Therefore, the University of Economics, Prague requires submission of documents proving previous education, in particular:
- a notarized copy of a secondary school leaving certificate / diploma,
- a confirmation issued by the particular secondary school abroad (or by any other authorised body in the respective country) that the secondary school leaver is in the given country entitled to attend a bachelor’s degree programme
- their notarized translations into the Czech or English language (if not originally in Czech, Slovak or English)
The confirmation issued by the secondary school is required only from the applicants who received their secondary education abroad (their secondary school leaving certificate / diploma was issued by a school based outside of the Czech Republic). BUT, there are few exceptions – the confirmation is NOT required from applicants who are about to receive / received:
- a Czech secondary school leaving certificate called “Maturitní Vysvědčení”,
OR, from applicants who are about to receive / received a secondary school leaving certificates that are automatically equivalent to the Czech secondary school leaving certificate due to certain international agreements. It applies to the secondary school leaving certificates:
- from Slovakia called “Maturitné Vysvedčenie”,
- from Poland called “Swiadectwo Dojrzalosci”,
- from Hungary called “Érettségi Bizonyítvány”,
- from Slovenia (certificates issued by the state schools)
- the International Baccalaureate (IB Diploma),
Additionally, applicants who already have a Nostrification Clause (a certificate issued by the Czech state authorities that recognises applicant’s previous education received abroad) are also NOT required to submit the confirmation from their foreign secondary school.
The applicants with a secondary school leaving certificate from Germany called “Zeugnis der Allgemeinen Hochschulreife” are required to submit the confirmation issued by their secondary school. BUT, when assessing the previous education, the University will always give a positive result of such assessment.
Official request for a recognition of education received abroad
The following section applies only to applicants, who received their secondary education abroad.
Applicants, who already have the so-called nostrification clause, will submit the nostrification clause to IBB Office and do NOT need to submit the official electronic request for recognition of education received abroad. Please, send the scanned copy as soon as possible and deliver the certified hard copy to the IBB Office by the 1st of August.
Applicants, who received their secondary education abroad and do not have the nostrification clause (which means that their previous education was already recognized by the Czech state authorities), have to ask the University for recognition of their foreign secondary education by submitting an official electronic request. The University has launched a special app dedicated to the assessment of applicants’ foreign education.
If applying for English taught programme IBB, please, read and operate in the English version of the website “Request for recognition of education abroad for the purposes of the admission procedure at VSE Prague”. The difference is not only in the language – the Czech and English versions of the app are NOT identical.
Please, follow the instructions in the following website https://edu.vse.cz/. Here are short instructions, which might help you:
- Click on the button “Submit the request”
- Fill in all sections of the form
- Diploma holder
- School accomplished abroad
- What programme/field of study are you applying for
- choose Faculty: Faculty of International Relations
- choose Type of study: Bachelor
- choose Language of instruction: English
- Click on “add” the programme
- Click on “send” the electronic request
The assessment of the documents proving previous education is FREE OF CHARGE if you apply for IBB.
As said in the section “Submission of the document proving previous education – when and where to send the hard copies”, please, deliver the hard copies of the documents proving previous education by 1st of August to the address of our Legal Department:
VSE Prague
Legal Department (pravni oddeleni)
nam. W. Churchilla 4
130 67 Praha 3
Czech Republic
Submission of the documents proving previous education - WHEN and WHERE to send the hard copies
The application deadline 30th April, 10:00 CEST (Prague Time Zone), does not apply to the submission of the documents proving an applicant’s secondary education. These documents are the only exception to the deadline.
We strongly recommend submitting the HARD COPIES of the documents proving an applicant’s secondary education by the 1st August. Please, take into consideration the amount of time it takes for the documents to be delivered by postal service.
Applicants, who are NOT required to submit a confirmation issued by the secondary school (see the details in the section Completed secondary education) OR already have the nostrification clause (which means that their previous education was already recognized by the Czech state authorities), have to send the HARD copies of the documents proving previous education to the address of the IBB Office:
VSE Prague
Faculty of International Relations (FMV)
IBB OFFICE – Baresova
nam. W. Churchilla 4
130 67 Praha 3
Czech Republic
Applicants, who received their secondary education abroad and do not have the nostrification clause (which means that their previous education was already recognized by the Czech state authorities), have to ask the University for recognition of their foreign secondary education by submitting an official electronic request. Afterwards, they have to send the HARD copies of their documents proving secondary education to our Legal Department:
VSE Prague
Legal Department (pravni oddeleni)
nam. W. Churchilla 4
130 67 Praha 3
Czech Republic
Nostrification clause
A document proving general recognition of the equivalence or validity of a foreign document concerning receiving secondary education in the Czech Republic (a nostrification clause) is required only when the University of Economics, Prague expresses doubts about sufficient level, scope, or content of a previous foreign education of an applicant, and the applicant will be asked to present the nostrification clause. For more information on gaining nostrification clause, please follow the link.
Applicants, who already have a nostrification clause, are NOT required to submit the confirmation from their foreign secondary school. They will submit only their notarized copy of a secondary school leaving certificate / diploma and the notarized copy of the nostrification clause. The HARD copies of the documents have to be sent to the address of the IBB Office (see the address in section “Submission of the documents proving previous education – WHEN and WHERE to send the hard copies”) and should be delivered there by 1st August.
