Admission process

Step by step

Before going through the steps, read these important points.

Make sure to check the guidelines and Application form section. After you submit your application, you will receive an email with a username and password for your application. Please save this email. Once the International Relations Office (hereinafter referred to as IRO) of FBE MENDELU processes your application, you will be notified via email. Further steps will be shared with you via email. Entrance exam details, including an individual access code and a link where you can access your test on a specific day and time, will be shared with you via email. Pay attention to the time, as we use Central European Time (CET)/ Central European Summer Time (CEST).
After you submit your application you will be contacted by the International Relations Office (hereinafter referred to as IRO) of FBE MENDELU with further details. You will receive an email about entrance exams including an individual access code and a link where you can access your test on a specific day and time. Pay attention to the time, as we use Central European Time (CET)/ Central European Summer Time (CEST).

Please, note the standard response time for the International Relations Office is 14 days. Please do not send reminders, they will cause prolonged replies from IRO and might be recognised as spam by the email provider. Emails are being answered one by one.Please, check the section STUDY CONTRACT for rules for payments, etc
Every applicant is responsible for providing us with correct details such as email address, passport number or phone number. In case of a change, he/she must inform IRO.
Applicant must pay attention to the validity of his/her admission documents. The university is responsible only for the issuance of admission documents, not for their validity.

E-application guideline

In order to be accepted at FBE MENDELU, please follow these steps:

Bachelor and Master applicants

We strongly recommend you follow the instructions on how to fill out the application GUIDELINE

E-application guide

DO’s and DON’Ts

Save your username and password after creating the application
Make sure the program you choose has the suffix “A” stating the study program is in English
Bachelor: B-EAMA, Master: C-EAMA or C-OIA
Unless you fill out all the sections (Personal data, Applicant’s address) and upload the required documents, we are NOT able to help you with filling out the application. We cannot enter it from our end
Fill out the full name as per the passport
Use your permanent address, not the contact address. If you don’t have a postal code, insert a dash

Submit the online application via the blue button “Application form”. Application includes compulsory sections such as personal information, permanent address and submission of documents of your previous education (high school diploma, bachelor’s or master’s degree).

After you submit your application, you will receive an email with a username and password for your application. Please save this email. Pay attention to the time, as we use Central European Time (CET)/ Central European Summer Time (CEST).

NOTE: you are not applying for the semester mentioned in the application form.
The semester depends on other factors, such as payment etc.
Please see the section Tuition fee & Costs.

Application form

PhD applicants

PhD students will be asked afterwards to fill Intent of the dissertation, CV and Motivation letter.

Application deadline of 31 May. NOTE: applications for newly accredited (Applied Statistics and Operations Research, Finance) study programs will be opened soon.

Entrance exams are held from June 19 to June 30.

Application form – PhD

More info about Ph.D.

Deadlines and Exam dates

Entrance exams are taking place at least once a month:

You must fill out an application by the end of the month to be scheduled for next month’s entrance exam.

F.e. You fill out the application on 20th November, and your entrance exams will be scheduled within December.

Bachelor applicants
- Study programme Economics and Management requires the Study prerequisites test, which is a general knowledge test with 25 questions, only one answer is correct.

Sample test – Study prerequisites test

Master applicants
- Master study programme Economics and Management requires the entrance test from Economics and Management; master study programme Open Informatics from Informatics. The master level entrance tests have 25 abcd questions with only one correct choice.

Sample test – Economics and management

Sample test – Informatics

PhD applicants
Student is required to submit the Thesis Proposal and find a supervisor for the thesis. More information will be provided by the IRO or by your agent.

Entrance test

Use your individual access code to access your entrance test at the time which was set for your entrance exam. In case of any troubles or the need to change the date, please, contact eliska.fojtikova@mendelu.cz

Write the entrance test

Please note, that we put emphasis on increasing of the quality our applicants. Therefore, the management of the faculty has worked on the review of the entrance exams requirements. The minimum score for Bachelor’s Economics and Management is 60 points out of 100 points. This applies to applications submitted since 1st May 2023. (The passing score up to 1st May was for Economics and Management Bachelor and Master 70 points out of 100 points, Open Informatics stays with 60).

Entrance exam results are valid for two years. This means that from the time you successfully pass the exam, you have two years to complete the admission process (get the nostrification done and apply for the visa). In case of failing the exam, the exam can be repeated after 3 months.

GHANA admission process

For more information please contact Dr. Nchor: dennis.nchor@mendelu.cz

Examination areas and Suggested study literature

For Bachelor study program: Study prerequisites test. Please see the document below.

Bachelor’s Areas and Literature

For Master study programs: Economics and Management and Open Informatics.

Master’s Areas and Literature

Obtaining a certificate of recognition of previous education. Please see the section Nostrification for more detailed information.

Signing study contract and paying tuition fees. Please see the current tuition fees in the table “Tuition fees & Costs” below. You will be asked to pay an accommodation deposit, in case you want to use the dormitories of our university. Please note the payment for the accommodation must be done to the account of the accommodation office.

Due to the overbooked capacity at the embassy for visa interviews, check the conditions for your country.

study Programme	degree	duration	price per academic year	intake
Economics and Management	bachelor	3 years	80 000 CZK / approximately 3 200 EUR	February September
Economics and Management	master	2 years	80 000 CZK / approximately 3 200 EUR	February September
Open Informatics	master	2 years	80 000 CZK / approximately 3 200 EUR	February September

Since the academic semester 2024/2025 the tuition fee for PhD studies is 0 CZK.

How to make the payment?

School fees, nostrification and accommodation deposit ONLY – not for the payment of the application fee

Payment Info – click here and enter your payment amount in Czech Crowns (80 000 CZK) in the line that says Tuition Fee. Choose your country of origin in the Flywire form.
Payment method – select your preferred payment method to complete your payment in your home currency. For debit/credit card payments, enter your card details online to complete your payment in your home currency. For bank transfers, follow the instructions provided to send your funds. Depending on your bank, payment may be made online, in person, or over the phone.
Note: Additional local payment options may be available depending on the country you are paying from.

Payer Info – enter some basic information to initiate your payment booking.
Info for the receiver – enter only your name, surname, and email and as the Program name write the name of the study program you are applying for and if it is a bachelor or master study program.
Review & Confirm payment information.
Make payment.

Deadlines

Country you are applying from	February intake	September intake
Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Liberia, Burkina Faso, Ivory coast, Togo	Study contract issued latest 15^th October, payment has to be done by 31^st October	Study contract issued latest 30^th April, payment has to be done by 10^th May
Nigeria, Cameroon, Kongo, Equatorial Guinea	Study contract issued latest 15^th October, payment has to be done by 31^st October	Study contract issued latest 30^th April, payment has to be done by 10^th May
Indie, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhútán, Srí Lanka, Maledives	Study contract issued latest 15^th October, payment has to be done by 31^st October	Study contract issued latest 30^th April, payment has to be done by 10^th May
Pakistan	Study contract issued latest 15^th October, payment has to be done by 31^st October	Study contract issued latest 30^th April, payment has to be done by 10^th May
Other countries	Study contract issued latest 15^th November, payment has to be done by 30^th November	Study contract issued latest 31^st May, payment has to be done by 10^th June

After the payment you will receive from us the admission letter, study confirmation, payment confirmation and after payment of the accommodation deposit, we will get for you accommodation contract. Please note, the accommodation deposit has to be sent to the account of the accommodation office. Details are shared with applicants while paying. We will also send you the hard copy of your entrance exam announcement letter. You might also receive from us the hard copy of your nostrification certificate (in case you did this with our assistance).

Admission documents for September intake are issued if the payment is done by 10^th May or 10^th June (Please check the step Study contract) and for February intake by 31^stOctober or 30^th November. (Please check the step Study contract).

As a full-time student, you should apply for a long-term residence permit (for the purpose of studies). The visa application should cost you 2 500 CZK. Here you can check the general requirements for visa applicants from the Ministry of Interior.

How long does it take?

Once you submit the visa application at the Czech Embassy it might take up to 90 days before your visa is issued. Most of the time it really takes 60-90 days.

What documents will you get from us

For the visa application, you will receive from us the following documents:

the accommodation contract,
admission letter,
confirmation of your studies (with the study program and dates),
payment confirmation (proof that you have paid the first year tuition fees) – this document is not required so sometimes we just send it scanned in an email,
hard copy of the entrance exam result letter (only students who did the entrance exam from 1^st August 2019 onwards),
hard copy of the nostrification certificate (in case we assisted with that).

Travel health insurance

All incoming degree students must arrange travel health insurance with VZP cooperating with Mendel University. Both companies have the COVID-19-related situations already covered in the complex travel health insurance. This insurance is usually required once your visa is approved and you are about to get the visa confirmation in your passport/etc. In some countries you will need to have travel health insurance while submitting the admission documents for visa, see the information at the embassy in your country. You can find information about the health travel insurance companies cooperating with Mendel university here.

Booking an appointment via Regime student

Booking an appointment for the visa interview can be quite a challenge in some countries. The appointments at the embassy cannot be booked by a third party, except for Regime student. Please check whether your country is on the list of the Ministry.

What is the Regime student?

It is a program allowing you to get visa appointment date without the need to book it yourself if you meet the requirements of the ministry. Please note this regime student is applicable only for those, who finish the whole admission process. (entrance exams, nostrification, first-year tuition fee and accommodation deposit payment)

If your name is on the list it might enable you to get the appointment without the need to book it yourself, however, it is not a guarantee that you will be chosen.

Please note with the participation at the regime student you are agreeing your personal data such as full name, date of birth, passport number and phone number are shared with the respective offices at the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Interior Affairs and Ministry of International Affairs.

How does it work?

The university sends every month to the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic a list of students who are admitted to the studies and who already have their nostrification certificates. The Ministry then chooses some of the students who will get the appointment, without the need to book it through the booking system. The university is not able to prioritize any students for selection and has no say in the selection process. Every month we have no more than 10 candidates out of about 20-30 chosen.

Once the Ministry of Education chooses you and you are called by the embassy you have only one chance. If the embassy turns you down because you did not have your documents ready we cannot put you on the list again and you have to get the appointment by yourself.

So we still advise the students to try to book the appointments themselves, because it cannot be guaranteed that you will be chosen by the Ministry.

How to be nominated?

Since 1st December 2023, Ministry of Education has implemented new rules for nomination. Nominees must fulfil all the following conditions:

Entrance exams
- organized by the university you are applying to
Ability to study in English – you must have any of the following evidences
- a) English language certificate (English FCE certificate (grade B, C), BEC Vantage (grade B, C), BULATS score 60-74, CLB/CELPIP 6-7, CAEL 60, IELTS levels 5-6, TOEFL 87-109.)
- b) Medium of Instruction in English or English proficiency letter
- c) Transcript of records with a proven medium of instruction on it (on the transcript of records is written your study was held in English) If you don’t obtain one of the above mentioned, the faculty might organize English exam for you after finishing the admission process (entrance exams, nostrification, tuition fee payment, accommodation deposit payment)
Study gap less than 3 years
- You can be nominated only if you have less than 3 years from graduation. (The last school you studied).

If a student doesn’t fulfill all the conditions of the regime student, he/she cannot be nominated and need to book the appointment by himself/herself.

Visa rejection

If your visa is declined, you have three options:

appeal against the refusal. For this decision, please contact Dr. Nchor, he has contacts for good lawyers. His email is: dennis.nchor@mendelu.cz
let the appeal time pass and apply again
ask for refund. Please see our refund policy page

Refund policy

Admission procedure costs

Nostrification fee – 800 CZK
DHL costs – you will be asked to pay the DHL costs after you arrive in Brno
Accommodation deposit – 5 000 CZK, fully refundable in case your visa is declined or you decide to cancel your admission before applying for visa. We will ask you to pay it together with the tuition fee. If you paid 3 000 CZK, upon arrival to Brno you will be asked to pay up the rest of 5000 CZK. Website of the accommodation can be found here.
Any other costs paid by the faculty during your admission process

Refund policy