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ECTS

European Credit Transfer System

ECTS is the acronym for “European Credit Transfer System”. It is not only a system for the transfer of credits but also for their calculation. ECTS is used within all kinds and modes of studies. It enables students to be educated in their own countries and abroad, ensuring that those who spend some time at a host university complete a similar workload to those who spend all their studies at their home university. ECTS constitutes a set of procedures and tools regulating the transfer of credits between universities. ECTS is also an instrument for accumulating credits in order to organise and integrate an individual student’s study programme. ECTS facilitates student mobility and is compulsory at most universities participating in exchanges, providing the opportunity to compare syllabi and ensuring the formal recognition of students’ achievements in other institutions.

At TEU there are ECTS credits assigned to each particular course. This assessment takes into consideration the student’s contribution and the amount of work required to achieve learning outcomes (evaluated by an exam, a test, a position paper etc.). Student obtains ECTS credits for every course successfully completed at TEU.

Academic regulation guarantees that ECTS works as a transfer and accumulation system. In ECTS the whole academic year is 60 credits, one semester – 30 credits. One must obtain 180 credits to be granted a Bachelor degree in full-time studies at TEU and 175 credits for extramural studies. There can be a difference between the number of credits in the two semesters of the year, but a student must obtain a minimum of 25 credits during each semester in full-time studies, and a minimum of 20 credits in extramural studies. The ECTS grading scale, converted to TEU marks, is as follows:

Outgoing students completing part of their programme in another country within the framework of Erasmus (programme available to the citizens of all 27 Member States of the European Union, Turkey and the three countries of the European Economic Area, i.e. Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) are guaranteed recognition of their studies abroad. The recognition is made on the basis of ECTS documents, by the ECTS Institutional Coordinator.

• Learning Agreement - a “trilateral contract” between the student and the co-operating universities (TEU and the host university), in which a student undertakes to accomplish a recorded study programme during her/his exchange. An agreement is concluded before the student’s departure on exchange.
• Home institution’s transcript of academic records – a document prepared by the home university before the student’s departure on exchange, which states all the academic records which a student has obtained before her/his exchange.
• Host university’s transcript of academic records – a document prepared by the host university with all the academic records obtained during the exchange, which a student receives after completing her/his studies abroad.

In both transcript of academic records, all of a student’s courses from the period are mentioned, as well as the amount of credits received and the marks awarded.