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Conditions of admission

The key admission requirement for bachelor studies (of any study program of the first level) is to fully complete secondary education or secondary vocational education. (in accordance with the Higher Education Act 131/2002).

All foreign applicants or those students who have studied aboard must have completed their secondary education equivalent to A-level secondary  studies in Slovakia.  They need to attach A-level Certificate in the application form, or to bring it for registration day together with the apostille.

Additional information

The applicants who are interested in more than one study programme will specify their priority of the programmes in the application form and will only pay the application fee once. After passing their entrance exams successfully they will be admitted  to the programme of which they have met the admission criteria.

Conditions for international students

The same admission conditions apply to foreign applicants as to applicants from the Slovak Republic.

Foreign students studying in a language other than the state language pay tuition fees according to the conditions set out in Section 92(8) of the Higher Education Act. The tuition fee is set by a UNIZA directive and published for the respective academic year on the university's website. Foreign applicants (except applicants from the Czech Republic) who wish to study in the state language are required to pass a language test in Slovak language with a minimum B1* level. The language test is carried out on strictly defined dates published on the website of the Institute of Lifelong Learning of UNIZA (ILL) and its successful completion is a condition for admission to the study. If the applicant has already successfully passed a language test in the Slovak language conducted by the Institute of Lifelong Learning of UNIZA at the required level of at least B1, this language test will be recognised.

The Slovak language test must be passed no later than by the deadline of the admission procedure - 4.6.2026, while a foreign applicant may pass it only once in the calendar year of the admission procedure.

Foreign students studying in Slovak do not pay tuition fees. Applicants from the Czech Republic may use the form valid in the Czech Republic to apply for studies.

For foreign applicants admitted on the basis of interstate agreements, bilateral treaties or for scholarship holders of the Government of the Slovak Republic, the conditions specified in the relevant documents apply.

Without entrance examinations
yes

Conditions of admission without the entrance exam

No entrance exam

1. Applicants who have passed the external part of the matriculation examination in mathematics or the NPS (SCIO) mathematics tests and have achieved a percentile of at least 60 are admitted without an entrance examination.
2. Applicants who have passed the NPS (SCIO) general aptitude tests and achieved a percentile of at least 70 are admitted without an entrance examination.
3. Applicants from grammar schools, vocational secondary schools, associated schools and academies who have achieved an arithmetic average of grades on the end-of-year report card for the penultimate year of study (not the final year of study) up to and including 1.70 are admitted without an entrance examination.
4. Applicants who hold official industry certificates of CCNA grade and above are admitted without entrance examination.
5. Applicants who have obtained a certificate of successful completion of professional training courses organized by the faculty and who have also achieved an arithmetic average of marks on the end-of-year report card for the penultimate year of study (not the graduation year) up to and including 2.00 are admitted without an entrance examination.
6. Without an entrance examination, graduates of secondary schools who were successful solvers of the regional round of the mathematical, physical or informatics Olympiad or participants of the second round of the Young Accountant Olympiad during their secondary school studies will be admitted.

7. Without an entrance exam, high school graduates who were successful solvers of international and national competitions (NAG or NetRiders - UNI category, PT, First Lego League - Challenge category (at least national finals), First Global Slovakia (national finals), ZENIT - A and B category) will be admitted without an entrance exam: Programming, Web, Microelectronics, SOČ - 02 Mathematics and Physics, 11 Computer Science, 12 Electrical Engineering, Hardware, Mechatronics, 15 Economics and Management), Classical Economics for Secondary School Students (Essay of Classical Economics) and participated in the regional or national/Slovak round and at the same time achieved an arithmetic average of grades on the end-of-year report card for the penultimate year of studies (not the final year) up to and including 2.00.

To be admitted without an entrance examination it is sufficient to fulfil one of the conditions listed in paragraphs 1 to 7 above.

Coordinator for students with specific needs

Ms. Zuzana Borčinová
Telephone: 041/513 42 79
E-mail: zuzana.borcinova@fri.uniza.sk

General information on the admission exam

The applicants who do not meet those criteria will be required to take the entrance exams. The exams will consist of a written Mathematics test and Thinking Skills Assessment, to the extent of Grammar School. They will be admitted according to the score they will have gained till we fulfill the capacity of the study programmes.

Form of entrance exam

After the application deadline the faculty will send an invitation for the entrance exams to the applicants with all the details about the entrance exams, including the unique identification code of an applicant and a room number for taking the test. The applicants will take part in a written test from Maths and Thinking Skills with the allocated time of 120 mins. The tests will be scanned, automatically evaluated and interim results will be published on our website http://vzdelavanie. uniza.sk/prijimacky/.

Tests

a written test from Maths and Thinking Skills

• Apply the application for study

  30.04.2026

• Performance of the entrance exam

  04.06.2026 - 04.06.2026

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Billing information

bank: Štátna pokladnica (the State Treasury)

Account number: SK96 8180 0000 0070 0026 9909

Variable symbol: 10531

Constant symbol: 0308

A payment receipt needs to be sent either to the postal address of the faculty or electronically via system Electronic Application Form.

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