INFORMATION ABOUT THE EXTENSION AND TRANSFER PROCESS STIPENDIUM HUNGARICUM/DIASPORA PROGRAMME/STUDENTS AT RISK PROGRAMME
EXTENSION
Stipendium Hungaricum Extension Process for the second/spring semester of the 2026/2027 academic year
Below, we would like to share some useful information on submitting an extension for the first/fall semester of the 2026/2027 academic year.
Please read the following points carefully and use the forms as well:
1. Requests can be submitted during the last semester of your scholarship period. Students must have an active student status in the semester when they submit the request for an extension.
2. The scholarship can be extended in the following cases:
a full-time bachelor’s program
a full-time master’s program
a full-time one-tier master’s program
3. Scholarship holders may extend their scholarship period by a total of two semesters (requesting one extra semester at each time) for Hungarian bachelor’s, master’s, and one-tier master’s programs.
If a scholarship holder requested an extension for two semesters during his/her bachelor studies, then if he/she later was awarded a scholarship for a master's studies, he/she can no longer request an extension of the master studies. If a scholarship holder received a 1-semester extension for his/her bachelor studies, he/she can request a 1-semester extension for his/her master studies.
(Note: If the scholarship holder applies for a third semester extension, the institution is not in a position to support it.)
4. Students must first send their request form to their faculty coordinator with the required documents in order to receive the faculty approval letter. We suggest starting the process at the faculty level well before the final extension submission deadline.
The deadline to submit the signed and scanned extension request and the signed and scanned faculty approval document to the International Office is November 20, 2026, 16:00 CET. The submission must be sent via email to welcomecenter@uni-nke.hu, Dudas.Eva@uni-nke.hu, and szkarosi.agape@uni-nke.hu .
5. During the extension period, scholarship holders will not receive a living allowance or housing allowance from the academic year 2020/2021. (Note: Students who started their studies before 2020/21 are entitled to the scholarship and housing allowance during the extension.)
6. What is the role of the host institutions? The institution collects the requests and sends the list of those who receive approval to the Tempus Public Foundation. The institution approve the extension request of those scholarship holders who have a realistic chance of being able to complete their studies with the help of the extension and whose requests are reasonable.
7. If the institution rejects the student’s request for an extension, the student may only continue their studies at their own expense, paying the tuition fees.
8. Although scholarship holders are not required to submit their application to the sending partner, they are encouraged to notify the partner of their intention to extend their scholarship.
9. What happens if the scholarship holder has a passive status during the extended period? In case the request for an extension study period is accepted by the Tempus Public Foundation and the scholarship holders have a passive status during the extended period, in the semester when their student status is active again, the previously approved extension can be used without submitting a new request. In this case, after registering for an active semester again, they should contact Tempus Public Foundation regarding an updated Letter of Award.
10. If they previously changed institution, study program, and/or language, how does that affect the end of their scholarship period? The remaining semesters are calculated as follows: active semesters already used are deducted from the number of semesters of the new study program.
11. What is the procedure if a scholarship holder submits a new Stipendium Hungaricum application for a higher level in the new round and simultaneously submits an extension request? If they have simultaneously requested an extension of the study period and submitted an application in the new application cycle, the following procedure applies: if they accept the new scholarship, their extension request will be rejected; if they withdraw the new scholarship, the request for the extension will be approved.
12. What happens if the scholarship holder's request for extension is accepted by the Tempus Public Foundation, but in the meantime, the student’s scholarship status is terminated for academic or other reasons? In this case, the decision on the extension request is revoked. Therefore, the extension request is not relevant and will not be taken into consideration for the next semester.
For more information on the extension procedure, click on the following link.
https://stipendiumhungaricum.hu/documents/other/Extension_of_the_scholarship_period.pdf
You can download the form from the annex below:
TRANSFER PROCESS for the first/fall of the 2026/2027 Academic Year
We have compiled the most important and helpful information on changing institution, study programmes and/or language requests that apply to all scholarship holders.
1. Changing institution, study programme and/or language is possible within the first year of a full-time degree program.
2. Scholarship holders can submit the request for changing institution, study programme and/or language in the semester when they have passive student status, but in this case only if they had an active semester beforehand.
3. Documents:
- a request signed by the student: A detailed and concrete statement of the exact reasons for the request, addressed to Tempus Public Foundation. The request must be typewritten, printed, signed and scanned, saved in MS Word or Adobe PDF format. Host university forms cannot be accepted as requests. Requests may be rejected if a valid reason is lacking. You can use the request form available on the SH website.
- approval of the host institution
- the official, stamped approval of the future host institution in case of a request to change institution
The scholarship holders must submit the request to change institutions, majors, and/or languages, along with the compulsory annexes to the Directorate for Internationalisation of Higher Education of Tempus Public Foundation electronically at stipendiumhungaricum@tpf.hu by December 1, 2026.
The request and the attachments must be sent in one email together.Students must also send their signed and scanned request form to the International Office at the following email addresses: Dudas.Eva@uni-nke.hu, welcomecenter@uni-nke.hu, and szkarosi.agape@uni-nke.hu by November 20, 2026.
4. Change of institution or study programme is only possible at the same study level.
Changing the study programme is possible in the following cases:
- from bachelor’s to one-tier master’s
- from one-tier master’s to one-tier master’s, bachelor’s and master’s.
(Note: Changing from one-tier master’s to master’s is only possible if the scholarship holder has a bachelor's degree.)
- from master’s to master’s
- from doctoral to doctoral
It is not possible to change institution, study programme and/or study language in the case of partial studies and postgraduate specialist training courses.
5. Changing institution, study programme and/or language can only be considered as final if it is approved by Tempus Public Foundation.
6. Scholarship holders may change the study language from Hungarian to a foreign language in justified cases if the following conditions are met:
The lack of Hungarian language skills seriously hinders their academic progress to the extent that they are unable to fulfill their academic obligations stipulated in the contract (e.g. the credit minimum).
However, they have adequate knowledge of a foreign language to continue their studies. In addition to language deficiencies, their academic progress is not hindered by other serious academic problems, so changing the language can be a solution to their problems.
7. In case of transfer, the active semester(s) already used will be deducted from the total number of semesters in the new program; therefore, scholarship recipients are not expected to be able to complete their studies on time. If an extension is granted, scholarship recipients will not receive the living allowance or housing allowance provided as part of the scholarship. Scholarship recipients must be notified by the future host institution about the credit minimum rule.
