Credit recognition procedure
The credit recognition procedure must be carried out for all applicants for a Master’s programme who have not obtained a degree in a Bachelor’s programme (or who obtained a degree in the summer examination period) that is eligible for full credit from a Hungarian higher education institution. The credit requirements table will help you to determine whether it is necessary to complete the procedure for any given Master’s programme.
Key steps and decision types
- Submission of the request
- Applicants to a Master’s programme who do not hold a Hungarian Bachelor’s degree eligible for full credit must submit a credit recognition request by 1 August 2025.
- Requests are submitted electronically via the university website, separately for each Master’s programme if applying to multiple ones.
- The form requires personal details, previous institution(s), courses to be recognised, and corresponding credits and grades.
- Uploading supporting documents
- Official documents certifying the completed courses (transcript of records, diploma supplement, etc.) must be uploaded.
- Documents must be signed or stamped by the issuing institution or electronically certified, and be legible.
- Be mindful that without these documents, the request is invalid and will not be processed.
- Evaluation and outcome
- The credit transfer committee reviews the submitted request and documents.
- Applicants receive the credit recognition decision by email.
No further action is required. Types of decisions in the credit recognition process
- Full recognition: all credits and grades for the submitted courses are accepted, so no additional coursework is required for those subjects.
- Partial recognition: only some credits or parts of the courses are accepted; the student must complete the remaining credits or requirements.
- Rejection: the submitted credits are not recognised due to insufficient match with programme requirements or missing documentation.
- Request for additional documents: the committee may ask for further documents before making a final decision.
Although it is important that you follow the procedure, it is good to know that the process is usually successful for almost all applicants.
Detailed description
1. The credit recognition request process
The credit recognition request must be submitted by 1 August 2025. Requests will be assessed by the Credit Transfer Committee. You will receive a credit recognition decision by email. You do not need to upload the decision anywhere.
The request must be submitted electronically.
On this site, under the “How to submit” section, you can select the Master’s programme for which you wish to request the credit recognition procedure.
Click on the request for the selected Master’s programme to open a form.
2. How to complete the credit recognition form.
Fields that must be filled out are marked with an asterisk. You cannot proceed further in the request without filling them out.
After providing your personal details, the request should indicate the current/former institution(s) and studies from which you wish to have the credits recognised. More than one course or institution may be indicated, please separate them by commas.
The credit recognition requirements for each Master’s programme are then shown. You can move between pages by clicking on the “Next” and “Back” buttons.
The fields of study and subjects for each Master’s programme are listed below, on a separate page for each field of study.
Please enter the name, credit value and grade of the subject you have studied and wish to have accepted as a subject in the relevant field of knowledge/subject. The listed subjects may be replaced by subjects with similar names.
e.g.: you have studied Statistics in your Bachelor’s degree. In this case, the name of the subject should be entered in the “Statistics – Name of the subject to be recognized” field, the credit obtained for the subject in the “Statistics – ETCS credits achieved” field and the grade obtained for the subject in the “Statistics – Grade achieved” field.
If you want to accept more than one subject as equivalent to a subject, please indicate them separated by commas.
Once you have indicated the subjects you wish to have recognised, you will find information on how to upload the documents certifying these subjects via a separate form here. It is important to note that without supporting documents, your credit recognition request will be invalid. You will also find the forms for uploading documents on the website under the forms for the credit recognition request for a Master’s degree. Document uploading can be done both while completing the credit recognition request and after it has been submitted.
Please read the data management policy.
After clicking on the “Submit” button, the credit recognition request will be submitted.
Once submitted, the following message will appear on the page:
The message contains the details of the forms to upload and the documents to be attached to the request.
3. Upload documents
The document certifying the completion of the subjects indicated in credit recognition request (copy of the transcript of records, or transcript of diploma supplement, etc.) (for subjects completed abroad, a certified transcript of records in Hungarian or English is also required) must be uploaded with the request. Without uploading these documents, the submitted credit recognition request will be invalid and will not be considered.
A document bearing the signature and stamp of the representative of the issuing institution, or an electronic signature certificate is considered to be a CREDIT document. It is important that all pages of the document are uploaded in good quality and are legible.
The document upload form can be found here.
If you are applying for more than one Master’s degree and you need to request the credit recognition procedure for more than one Master’s degree, you must submit a separate request for each Master’s degree for document uploading. It is important to note that all credit recognition requests must be accompanied by all the documents certifying the completion of the subjects for which recognition is sought.
The fields that must be completed are marked with an asterisk. You cannot submit the request form without filling them in.
Contact
If you have any questions about the admission procedure, please contact us at international.application@uni-corvinus.hu.