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Not Anyone Else's. GUIDEBOOK for STUDYING in the CZECH REPUBLIC CONTENTS Yupp, it's totally your own. Not anyone else's. GUIDEBOOK FOR STUDYING IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC CONTENTS Dear student, If you hold the Guidebook NEMUS in your hands, you decide to study in the Czech Republic and move there. Our team created the Guidebook to provide you all necessary information and make the process of entering the University and moving to Prague easier for you. If something is not clear and you need detail information, contact our team. We are always glad to help you. The guidebook consists of 7 chapters. They are ordered by their relative urgency in time and will guide you through the whole process of your study in Czechia and getting yourself closer to your life goals. Each of the sections first gives you an overview of what needs to be done and then we’ll guide you through all the necessary details, such as necessary documents, deadlines, websites, forms and will give you tips on how to best go about this journey. Let’s get down to it! 1. YOUR PLAN IN A NUTSHELL First, let’s go over your strategy and see your goals visualized, so you can get on top of them easier. In this overview section you’ll find a timeline with major steps starting from now until your graduation, the expenses for each phase as well as the most important documents that you will need to acquire. Don’t worry, though! It might seem overwhelming at first, but we will guide through the whole process. You will find all the details about a particular document or a step in their section, just click on the keyword and it’ll get you there. STUDY IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TIMELINE 1 month ADMISSION PROCESS 2 months 1. Fill online application and send to the university 2. Pay administration fee 3 months VISA 3. Collect all required documents 1. Arrange date of visiting the Czech Embassy 4. Pass the entrance exams / interview / CV / motivation letter 4 months 2. Prepare all documents 5. Wait for a committeedecision 6. Receive a letter from the university that you were admitted 3. Visit the Czech Embassy and apply for a visa 5 months 4. Wait up tp 60 days for a decision 5. Recieve your passport with visa 6 months NOSTRIFICATION 1. Prepare all documents and submit them 2. Wait up to 60 days for aresult 7 months 3. Recieve a letter with date of nostrification exams 4. Pass nostrification exams 8 months 5. Get a nostrification certificate 9 months NOW STUDY IN CZECH LANGUAGE TIMELINE 1 month LANGUAGE COURSE 1. Choose a course of Czech language 2 months 3 months VISA 4 months 1. Arrange date of visiting the Czech Embassy 2. Prepare all documents 5 months 3. Visit te Czech Embassy and apply for a visa 4. Wait up to 60 days for a decision 5. Recieve your passport with visa 6 months 7 months 8 months 9 months 10 months 11 months NOSTRIFICATION LANGUAGE COURSE 1. Prepare all documents and submit them 12 months 2.Wait up to 60 days for a result 2. Study Czech language 3. Recieve a letter with date of nostrification exams 13 months 4. Pass nostrification exams 5. Get a nostrification certificate 14 months 15 months ADMISSION PROCESS 1. Fill online application and send to the university 16 months 2. Pay administration fee 3. Collect all required documents 17 months 4. Pass the entrance exams / interview / CV / motivation letter 5. Wait for a committeedecision 18 months 6. Receive a letter from the university that you were admitted NOW MONEY. DOCUMENTS. See all the most important expenses of your Before we jump into details, let’s first have journey at one place. a look at the documents you will need to gather. The documents are sorted to three Monthly costs without accommodation main categories: 1) University; Entertainments Eating 1500 CZK // 54 € 2) Visa; 5000 CZK // 180 € 3) Insurance. Public Transport 130 CZK // 4.68 € Mobile 500 CZK // 18 € TOTAL 7130 CZK // 256.68 € 1 CZK = 0.036 EUR Annual costs without accommodation TOTAL 14000 CZK // 504 € 1 CZK = 0.036 EUR Books and student aids Books 2000 CZK // 72 € Tuition fee Tuition XXXX CZK // XX € Insurance 12000 CZK // 432 € 2. THE BEST UNIVERSITIES IN PRAGUE Let’s first have a look at the best universities of the Czech Republic. You will see university profile, list of faculties, reasons to choose one of these universities and notable alumni of each of them. 2.2. UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS IN PRAGUE You have chosen University of Economics in Prague. Here’s a quick summary about your university. University of Economics (Prague) is an economics European region. The University of Economics, Prague and business-oriented public university located confirmed its high level and repeated its success in Prague, Czech Republic. It is the largest university in 2015 and 2017, when it also took first place. in the field of economics, business and information There are 5 faculties: technology in the Czech Republic. It was founded ► Finance and Accounting, in 1953. In the 2018 Financial Times ranking, VŠE ► International relations, ranked 60th and achieved the best result so far in this prestigious ranking. In the Eduniversal international ► Business Administration, ranking for 2018, it was awarded the title of the best ► Informatics and Statistics, economic university in the countries of the Eastern ► Economics, Management. Cool, huh? WHY TO CHOOSE UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS IN PRAGUE Quality recognized abroad. The school is highly International cooperation. The University cooper- valued both at Czech Republic and abroad. The Uni- ates with more than 250 partner universities of four versity of Economics, Prague is included in the Finan- continents. More than 1000 students per year go to cial Times and has long been ranked as one of the best study abroad and a similar number of foreign students business schools in Central and Eastern Europe within come to study the University. VŠE is also a member the Eduniversal Ranking project. EQUIS accreditation of a number of international organizations and net- ranks the Faculty of Business Administration among works of universities, such as the International 1% of the best business schools in the world. In August Strategic Alliance CEMS (Global Alliance in Manage- 2016 the five-year process of joining VŠE to the pres- ment Education) and PIM (Partnership in Interna- tigious international association AACSB (Association tional Management). to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) started. Great number of international students. Interna- Study interwoven with practice. University of Eco- tionalization is a long-term strategic priority of the nomics cooperates with Big 4, Ceska sporitelna, University of Economics in Prague. Foreigners can Unilever, Amazon, L'Oréal and other Czech and study either in Czech or in foreign language study pro- international corporates, where students can intern grams. More than 3000 students from 52 states study and work during the study and after graduation. at the University and every year this number increas- es. The share of foreign students in the total num- Competitive advantage at interview. Alumni of Uni- ber of students is approximately 20%. Citizens of the versity of economics are better evaluated by employers Slovak Republic, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, during the selection process. They have a very good Belarus and Vietnam are most often represented. position in the labour market and hold important positions in both the private and public sectors. Most of them work in various sectors of indus- try, banking, accounting and auditing, business, marketing and information technology. NOTABLE ALUMNI Jan Fischer (b. 1951), statistician, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (2009–10), Minister of Finance of the Czech Republic (2013–14). Graduated 1974, completed post-graduate studies 1985. Martin Jahn (b. 1970), Czech politician and economist, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Policy (2004–05). Graduated in 1994 with a Masters in International Trade. Petr Kellner (b. 1964), investor, businessman (one of the USD billionaires), owner of PPF company. Václav Klaus (b. 1941), President of the Czech Republic (2003-2013), Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (1992–97). Graduated in 1963 majoring in Foreign Trade Economics. Miloš Zeman, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (1998–2002), President of the Czech Republic (2013–present). Studied 1965–69 at the university, specialising in Economic Forecasting, and also taught. 2.2. CHARLES UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE Charles University (Prague) was founded in 1348, Education at Charles University is very extensive. it was the first university in Central Europe, and it is Its quality is constantly being improved, it extends one of the oldest universities in Europe in continuous its offering every year and is linked with the scientific operation. Today the university consists of 17 faculties activities of the faculties. located in Prague, Hradec Králové and Pilsen: Every year, elective subjects taught in foreign languag- ► Humanities, es are incorporated into all of the newly accredited ► Physical Education and Sport, or re-accredited degree programs. ► Social Sciences, Shanghai Ranking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities 2019: 201-300 ► Education, Charles University has nearly 50 000 students - roughly ► Mathematics and Physics, a sixth of all students in the Czech Republic – enrolled ► Science, in more than 300 accredited degree programs that offer over 630 different courses. ► Arts, The University has over 7,000 students from other ► Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, countries. ► Medicine in Hradec Králové, Charles University collaborates with a broad spec- ► Medicine in Pilsen, trum of renowned universities from all over the world ► First Faculty of Medicine, The Academic Ranking of World Universities ► Second Faculty of Medicine, - the “Shanghai League”, which every year compares more than 1,000 of the world’s best universities (se- ► Third Faculty of Medicine, lected from a total of over 17,000 institutions), has re- ► Law, peatedly included Charles University in the third hun- ► Hussite Theological, dred, i.e.
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