Note to our international students! We would like to inform our students that the dean and the vice-dean can be contacted after consultation with the international coordinators.Please contact us first! If the help of the dean or vice dean is needed we inform you and forward your requests to them.If you send the e-mails directly to the dean or vice-dean in these cases the e-mails are sent back instantly to you and in copy to the coordinators without administration.Thank you for your kind understanding.

Dear Students! The Spring semester starts on 12 FEBRUARY!!

The processing time of your e-mails is 3 to 4 working days!

Attention!From January 1st 2024 we will automatically reject any professional internship that the student started without requesting or receiving the approval of the vice-dean in advance.IF YOU HAVE ALREADY STARTED A WORK WHICH YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ADMINISTERED AS YOUR INTERNSHIP ACCOMPLISHMENT, AND IT IS NOT YET APPROVED BY THE UNIVERSITY, PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR DECLARATION OF ACCEPTANCE NO LATER THAN 31 DECEMBER.

ELTE Regulations for Students

The ways and means of organizing the courses and measuring students' performance are defined in detail in the Regulations of ELTE, specifically in the Academic Regulations for Students (ELTE Organisational and Operational Regulations – Volume 2).

This is a several hundred pages long document, but we recommend everyone to at least flip through the pages 215-223, where you can find the regulations that are specific to the Faculty of Informatics.

New regulations from 2020/2021 Spring:
(These will be alterations in Chapter XVII of the above document. Official translation is not yet available on the website of ELTE, but please be informed about these changes, as they involve information about the upcoming tests and exams.)

Section 377/A.

(1) A student, who during a study performance measurement (exam, assignment, etc.) including the making of a computer program or program module as a main task, uses aids other than those specified by the instructor, or provides unauthorized assistance to another student, commits a study irregularity, therefore he/she cannot complete the subject in the given semester and cannot obtain the credits for the subject.

(2) Report shall be taken of the act described in paragraph 1, which will include the place, time and brief description of the act, as well as a statement given by the concerned student declaring that he or she acknowledges or disputes the act charged against him or her. If the student disputes the act charged against him, the dean conducts proceedings in order to clarify the matter of fact.

Section 381. ad Section 79.

(4) The deadline for submitting the verification documents of the internship completed during an active semester shall be at the latest within 30 days after the completion of the internship. Verification documents, submitted until 31 January (Autumn semester) and until 31 August (Spring semester) can be counted to the indicated current semester. Documents submitted after the deadline will be approved in the subsequent active semester.

(5) cancelled

Section 382.

(7) Students may enter for the final examination, if they fulfilled all the academic requirements, and obtained their pre-degree (final) certificate (absolutorium). Students can be admitted to take the Final Exam in case of fulfillment the requirements of the curriculum/obtaining pre-degree (final) certificate (absolutorium) until:
a) 18 June - in case of Final Exam in the Spring semester
b) 15 January - in case of Final Exam in the Autumn semester. For students applying for a master's degree beginning in the Spring semester, the deadline of obtaining the pre-degree (final) certificate is 20 December.

Important Rules of Education

  • Practice courses are mandatory to attend. If you miss more occasions than allowed (which is usually 3), then you will not get a practical mark.
  • Starting from September 2019, lectures are also mandatory to attend. If you miss more occasions than allowed, you cannot take the exam.
  • If you get a „1 (fail)” mark from a practice course, you have one more opportunity in that semester to pass the course by taking a retake exam.
  • After six „1 (fail)” marks from a course, your student status will be ended. This is required by the Hungarian law on higher education, it cannot be overruled by our faculty.
  • You can only register for a course 3 times; if you do not pass it on the third occasion, your student status will be ended. You have the right to hand in a written request to the Vice-Dean for Education asking for a 4th chance. (If you already have six fail grades from the course, the request will be declined.) This request has to be handed in within a week of the end of the exam season. (See also the page Requests.)
  • At the end of the exam season, make sure that all the grades you received are registered correctly in Neptun. You have one week after the end of the exam season to let us know if a grade is registered incorrectly.
  • You can try 3 times in one semester to pass an exam from a lecture course. If the course is offered in cross-semesters, then you only have two chances.
  • Every student is required to complete at least 30 credits in their first 4 semesters, otherwise we have to end their student status. (Passive semesters do not count in this.) There are also stricter rules in place for Stipendium Hungaricum students about credit numbers; these are dictated by Tempus Public Foundation and not our faculty, please make sure you are aware of them.
  • If you have not completed the prerequisites of a course yet, then you cannot register for that course. The prerequisite-system is in place for a reason and you should take it seriously. You have the right to hand in a prerequisite-weakening request, but it will only be accepted in special cases. The request has to be supported and signed by the responsible teacher of the course AND the relevant department head before you hand it in. Such requests might be accepted if the student is already at an advanced stage of his/her studies, and if there are very good reasons behind it that are explained in detail. These types of requests have to be handed in until the end of the first week of the term season. (See also the page Requests.)
  • If you do not register for the next semester after two consecutive passive semesters, your student status will be ended.
  • Please also read the following documents: IMPORTANT DEADLINES, ADMINISTRATIVE FEES