The assessment of foreign education is intended for applicants to study at TUL who have completed their previous education at a foreign school.
If you need to have your foreign education recognized for use outside of studies at TUL, the Recognition of Foreign Education (Nostrification) applies to you.
Procedure for submitting an application
(Note: this procedure does not apply to the cases in paragraph 10 below)
- A graduate of a foreign secondary school or university (hereinafter referred to as the applicant) submits an application to study at the selected faculty(ies).
- If an applicant submits more than one application to study, they submit the application for foreign education assessment only once and list all the faculties to which they are applying in the application.
- Assessment of foreign education is carried out by the International Office of TUL. In case of questions you can contact:
- Assessment of previous secondary education: daria.mlejnkova@tul.cz
- Assessment of previous higher (University) education: hana.kralova@tul.cz
- The applicant shall send the documents including the application in the required form to the following address:
Technical University of Liberec
International Office
(Bc. Daria Mlejnkova OR Mgr. Hana Králová)Studentska 1402/2
461 17 Liberec 1
Czech Republic
or submit it to the International Office of TUL in an envelope with the above address.
- After receiving the application, the TUL International Office will verify payment of the administrative fee for the assessment of previous foreign education. It will check the application and the documents for the assessment of previous foreign education, their authenticity, the level of verification required, and if necessary the translation of the documents into Czech or English.
- If all the necessary criteria for the application are met according to TUL’s internal standards, the application will be assessed positively by TUL.
- TUL does not issue a separate written decision on the result of the assessment, but informs the Study Department of the faculty(ies) to which the applicant submitted the application. The faculty(ies) then inform(s) the applicant about the status of their admission to study at TUL as part of the admission procedure.
- If TUL has doubts about the sufficiency of the level, extent or content of the applicant’s previous foreign education as evidenced by the foreign document, the result of the assessment is negative. The faculty(ies) is/are informed. If TUL does not approve the application, the applicant is informed of the result by e-mail. The applicant is also informed of the defects in the submitted application and invited to remedy them. In extreme cases, the applicant may be asked by the faculty(ies) to submit general nostrification of secondary or higher (university) education. In this case, the applicant must provide evidence of the fulfilment of the condition of previous education by proof of the general recognition of the equivalence or validity of the foreign document of foreign education.
- The assessment of previous foreign education completed at TUL is valid only for studies at TUL for the academic year for which the applicant is applying to study. It is then valid for all applications to study submitted by the applicant in that particular academic year.
- This procedure does not apply to situations where the applicant can provide the following documents. These documents are sent directly to the Study Department of the faculty(ies) to which the applicant is applying to study:
- a general recognition of the equivalence or validity of a foreign document pursuant to Section 48(4)(a) or (5)(a) of the Act (so-called general nostrification – Nostrification clauses or Certificates of recognition of foreign higher education and qualifications in the Czech Republic)
- a European Baccalaureate document as referred to in Section 48(4)(b)
- foreign documents of foreign secondary and higher education, which are automatically equivalent in the Czech Republic according to its international obligations without any further official procedure. List of automatically equivalent foreign education documents
| Documents required to assess foreign secondary school education | Documents required to assess foreign higher (university) education |
| a) Application for Assessment of Foreign Secondary Education in the Framework of the Admissions Procedure b) officially certified copy of the certificate issued by a foreign secondary school, c) proof of payment of the administration fee, d) officially certified power of attorney if application is not submitted by the applicant, e) officially certified copy of the document proving the change of surname if needed. | a) Application for Assessment of Foreign Higher (University) Education in the Framework of the Admissions Procedure b) officially certified copy of the diploma issued by a foreign university, c) a certified copy of the Diploma Supplement or Transcript of Record. d) proof of payment of the administration fee, e) officially certified power of attorney if application is not submitted by the applicant, f) officially certified copy of the document proving the change of surname if needed. |
| If necessary, TUL may also require the following documents a) additional information on the content and scope of the foreign secondary school studies, (list of courses taken during the study period), b) a confirmation from the relevant foreign secondary school or other competent foreign authority that a graduate of the secondary education programme of the specified foreign secondary school is entitled to apply for admission to study in a bachelor’s degree programme or a master’s degree programme not related to a bachelor’s degree programme in the specified foreign country. c) additional information that the study programme was carried out by an institution authorised to provide education comparable to secondary education under the Education Act, d) passport copy. | If necessary, TUL may also require the following documents a) additional information on the content and scope of the foreign university studies, b) a confirmation from the competent foreign authority that the foreign higher education institution is authorised to provide higher education in the specified foreign country (certificate of accreditation), c) passport copy. |
| If these documents are not in Czech or English, the applicant is obliged to provide a certified translation into Czech or English. | |
verification
The authenticity of signatures and stamps on the original (or notarized copies) of documents must be verified by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the state in which the foreign (secondary or higher education) school that issued the document is located, or by the competent foreign authority and the competent embassy of the Czech Republic, unless an international treaty provides otherwise.
payment
The administrative fee for the assessment of previous foreign education is to be paid only once for all applications to study that the applicant submitted in a given academic year.
The applicant must provide proof of payment at the time of application for the foreign education assessment. Payment must be manually paired with the applicant. Pay the fee only after you have prepared all necessary documents.
This fee can be paid to the university by bank transfer:
- the amount of 35 USD
- name of the account holder: Technical University of Liberec
- bank address: 1. máje 79/18, Liberec, Czech Republic
- ČSOB account – IBAN: CZ1603000000000681641013
- SWIFT (BIC): CEKOCZPP
- variable symbol: 6491429730 (if it can be applicable)
- specific symbol: Personal University Number (in the application form in STAG) (if applicable)
- note for the beneficiary: /VS/6491429730, Personal University Number (in the application form in STAG), name of the applicant
- the amount of 800 CZK
- name of account holder: Technická univerzita v Liberci,
- CSOB account no.: 305806603/0300,
- variable symbol: 6491429730,
- specific symbol: Personal University Number (in the application form in STAG)
- note for the beneficiary: /VS/6491429730, Personal University Number (in the application form in STAG), name of the applicant
directive
The rules for assessing foreign education in the admissions procedure are regulated by Rector’s Directive 9/2024.