Recognition of previous study (so called NOSTRIFICATION) is an obligatory condition required by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic for students who apply for degree programmes. The recognition is provided by the official authorities.

We cannot give you the admission without the recognition of your previous education.

There are two types of recognition (“nostrification”) you can apply for. At the faculty level we offer, and the information below is related to, the second type.

  1. Done by the governmental office or a public university
  • costs 3000 – 4000 CZK
  • allows you to enter any university in the Czech Republic and it is valid for life
  • it is slower (1 – 3 months) because more institutions are involved in the process
  • all of the courses that you have studied are assessed
  • the admission crew of the FBE faculty does not provide assistance with this type
  • information about the documents needed is here:
  1. Done by our faculty
  • cost 800 CZK
  • allows you to study at FBE MENDELU only and only once
  • it is faster (2 – 3 weeks) because it is done directly in our office
  • does not assess the courses you have studied, however, there still should be no final F grades and you should be eligible to enter university in your home country
  • for the information about the documents needed see below

Applicants for

The fee for the recognition done at the FBE is 800 CZK. We will invite you to make the payment once we check your documents and receive them by post.

Applicants must submit the following documents:

  • Application for recognition
  • Secondary school leaving certificate – please, be aware there can’t be any F grades – officially authenticated(please, see below the type of authentication). Please note, we do not accept provisional certificates
  • List of courses taken during the whole secondary school with grades – the school should issue the document with an official stamp from the school and should be officially authenticated (see the types of authentication below), In case your type of authentication is superlegalization, the list of courses has to be just legalized by the Ministry of foreign affairs – there is no need of superlegalization by the Czech embassy of this document.
  • Confirmation (or Migration certificate) that with your education you are allowed to enter any university in your country – can be a part of the list of courses and should be issued by your high school
  • Confirmation of school accreditation – a document that confirms that the school is officially accredited by the government of your country to provide high school education – this document should be issued by the respective institution in your country that deals with this (typically it is a Ministry of Education)
  • Copy of passport

NOTE: If the documents are not in English or Czech language, you must have them officially translated and submit them with their official translation.

Applicants for the master level study must do the recognition of their bachelor education.

The fee for the recognition done at the FBE is 800 CZK. We will invite you to make the payment once we check your documents and receive them by post.

Applicants must submit the following documents:

  • Application for recognition
  • Bachelor diploma – officially authenticated copy (please, see below the type of authentication). Please note we do not accept provisional certificates
  • Transcript of records – officially authenticated copy (please, see below the type of authentication). In case your type of authentication is superlegalization, the list of courses has to be just legalized by the Ministry of foreign affairs – there is no need for superlegalization by the Czech embassy of this document.
  • Confirmation (or Migration certificate) that with your bachelor’s education, you are allowed to enter a master’s study program in your country – this can be a part of the transcript of records and should be issued by your university
  • Copy of passport

All required documents must be translated into English or Czech. For successful recognition, the regular duration of the bachelor study must be at least 6 semesters!

Applicants for the PhD level study must prove the recognition of their master education.

The fee for the recognition done at the FBE is 800 CZK. We will invite you to make the payment once we check your documents and receive them by post.

Applicants must submit the following documents:

  • Application for recognition
  • Master’s diploma – officially authenticated copy (please, see below the type of authentication)
  • Transcript of records – officially authenticated copy (please, see below the type of authentication)
  • Bachelor diploma – officially authenticated copy (please, see below the type of authentication)
  • Confirmation (or Migration certificate) that with your master education you are allowed to enter a PhD study program in your country – this can be a part of the transcript of records and should be issued by your university
  • Copy of passport

All required documents must be translated into English or Czech.

Types of authentication

There are three types of authentication of your documents divided by the countries where the education has been achieved and where the university diploma has been issued:

  1. States that have signed a multilateral agreement on legal assistance – documents are valid on the territories of the signatory states without need of further authentication; an officially authenticated copy of the diploma and its official translation are required.
  2. States that are signatories to the Apostille Convention for simplified authentication of public documents (the Hague Convention). An apostille is a unified form of authentication of documents issued by the competent administrative body of the state in which the diploma was issued. PLEASE SEE COMMON MISTAKES (below)
  3. Other countries – the documents attesting to the completion of a degree course must be authenticated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the home country of the foreign higher education institution that has issued the document, and the diplomatic mission of the Czech Republic in the country concerned.

Please, see the list of countries including the types of authentication.

Please, be aware that delivered documents will not be returned to you after a nostrification process so please, submit officially authenticated copies not original documents.

Please, be aware that even if you submit all the documents the nostrification might not be possible for some reasons. If that happens, you still have the possibility of doing the nostrification by yourself at the governmental office. You can use the assistance of some organization in the Czech Republic. If that will be the case, we will inform you about that in an email.

Common mistakes

There are two right ways to attach apostile or superlegalization:

  • The apostille label will be on the copy of your document
    • Make a copy of your document and have it authenticated by an official authority
    • Have the document translated (if needed)
    • Have an apostile or superlegalization attached to your document
    • If the document has more than one page, it must be bound together by the official authority that attaches an apostile to it and the apostile will then be on the last page or the first page
  • The apostille label will be on the original document
    • Have the apostile or superlegalization attached to the original document
    • Have the document translated (if needed)
    • Have it authenticated by a Czech notary (Czech embassy provides this service)
    • If the documents has more then one page, all pages must be authenticated by a notary and bound together

We cannot accept any original documents. Please make always notarized COPY of your documents and then add the necessary authentications.