INFORMATION ABOUT THE EXTENSION AND TRANSFER PROCESS STIPENDIUM HUNGARICUM/DIASPORA PROGRAMME/STUDENTS AT RISK PROGRAMME
Stipendium Hungaricum and Diaspora Scholarship Extension Process from 2024/2025 second/spring semester
Below, we would like to share some useful information on submitting an extension in 2024/2025. 2nd semester.
Please read the following points carefully and use the forms as well:
1. Requests can be submitted in the last semester of the scholarship period.
The student status must be active in this semester when he/she submits the request for an extension.
2. The scholarship can be extended in the following cases:
- a full-time bachelor programme
- a full-time master programme
- a full-time one-tier master programme
3. The scholarship holder may extend their scholarship period by a total of two semesters (requesting one extra semester at each time) in Hungarian bachelor’s, master’s, and one-tier master’s programs.
If the scholarship holder applies for a 3rd semester extension, the institution is not in a position to support it.
4. Students must send their request form and an approval letter from their faculty to the following email addresses:
The deadline for submitting the extension request to the International Office is 28th April 2025, 16:00 CET on email to welcomecenter@uni-nke.hu or Dudas.Eva@uni-nke.hu and Marton-Andrassy.Katalin@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. (Students starting their studies before 2020/21 are entitled to the scholarship and housing allowance during the extension.)
6. If the scholarship holders request an extension of their studies for the fall semester and they get a positive assessment, they may receive the scholarship and the housing allowance until July 31st, not until 31st of August.
7. If the institution rejects the student’s extension request, the student may only continue her/his studies at her/his expense with tuition fees paid.
8. Scholarship holders are not required to submit their application to the sending partner, but students are nevertheless encouraged to notify their intention to extend their scholarship to the sending partner.
The form that scholarship holders can use to request an extension is available below.
https://stipendiumhungaricum.hu/uploads/2020/03/Extension_of_the_scholarship_period.pdf
TRANSFER PROCESS from 2024/2025 second/spring semester
We have summarised 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. Students at Risk scholarship holders are allowed to change institution, study programme and/or language in the first two semesters, if they are admitted to the first year of full degree studies in the frame of the Students at Risk Scholarship Programme.
2. The scholarship holders can submit the request for changing institution, study programme and/or language in the semester when they have passive student status.
3. Documents:
- a request signed by the student: A detailed and substantive statement of the exact reasons for the request, addressed to Tempus Public Foundation. It has to be typewritten, printed, signed and scanned, saved in MS Word or Adobe PDF format, the host university's forms cannot be accepted as requests. Requests may be rejected if a valid reason is lacking. You can use the request form available on our website: https://stipendiumhungaricum.hu/uploads/2020/03/request_changing_institution_ major_language_form_2022.docx
- approval of the host institution
- the official, stamped approval of the future host institution in case of a change of institution request
- The scholarship holders must submit the request for changing institutions, majors, and/or languages with the compulsory annexes to the Directorate for internationalisation of higher education of Tempus Public Foundation electronically at stipendiumhungaricum@tpf.hu.
The request and the attachments must be sent together in one email. Students must also send their form to the International Office at the following email addresses: Dudas.Eva@uni-nke.hu and Marton-Andrassy.Katalin@uni-nke.hu
The deadline for submitting to the International Office is 28th April 2025, 16:00 CET via email to welcomecenter@uni-nke.hu, Dudas.Eva@uni-nke.hu, or Marton-Andrassy.Katalin@uni-nke.hu
5. 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 to one-tier master
- from one-tier master to one-tier master, bachelor and master.
(Changing from one-tier master to master is possible only if the scholarship holder has a bachelor's degree.)
- from master to master
- from doctoral to doctoral
There is no possibility of changing institution, study programme and/or study language in the case of partial studies and postgraduate specialist training courses.
6. Changing of the institution, study programme and/or language can only be considered as final if it is approved by Tempus Public Foundation.
7. The scholarship holders can 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, as a result of which they are expected to be unable to fulfil their academic obligations stipulated in the contract (e.g. credit minimum).
However, their knowledge of a foreign language is adequate for continuing 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.
