Semmelweis University Organizational and Operational Regulations
– Part III. Student Standards –
Chapter III.2. Study and Examination Regulations

5. Provisions Concerning Student Legal Status

Article 19 [Partial Training]

(1) If a student wishes to study in the framework of partial training, they may establish a student legal status for a semester and re-initiate to establish it without a restriction on how many times but may only complete courses up to a total of sixty credits. Students participating in partial training must pay a fee corresponding to the fee of the given training. The Registrar’s Office issues a fulfillment page about the subjects that the student registered for within the given student legal status and a certificate of the student legal status.

(2) If a student wishes to establish student legal status in order to study in partial training, they shall submit a request to the Registrar’s Office and they shall specify the subjects they wish to complete in this request.

(3) Students shall attach the following data to the request:

  1. information necessary to establish a student legal status: the applicant’s name; gender; name at birth; mother’s name; place and date of birth; nationality; permanent address or place of residence and telephone number; in the case of non-Hungarian citizens, the title of residence in the territory of Hungary and the name and number of the document entitling them to stay; in the case of persons with the right of free movement and residence, the document certifying the right of residence according to specific legislation;
  2. a certificate of student legal status;
  3. a certified copy of the student’s course record book or the certified copy of the master data sheet.

(4) The application may be submitted no later than 30 days before the beginning of the study period.

(5) The Studies and Examinations Committee makes a decision on the submitted request within 15 days. The Registrar’s Office shall notify the student who submitted a request about the decision no later than 15 days before the beginning of the study period.

(6) A student taking part in partial training, because of the the student legal status ensuing from the partial training, is not eligible to pursue further vocational or professional qualifications or apply for a transfer or establish an additional visiting student legal status. The student is not entitled to suspend their student legal status (except for a specific reason defined in Article 16 (3)), nor to apply for a transfer to a training that is partially or fully funded by the Hungarian state, nor to apply for a period of funding.

(7) If the student has obtained a student legal status in order to study in a partial training, then the duration of the student legal status shall be taken into account regarding the duration of the student’s statutory benefits or allowances or any services that the student may be entitled to.

(8) After the student completed a partial training, the Registrar’s Office issues a certificate of the completed subjects and their credit value. The subjects that were acquired by the student can be included in the student’s tertiary education.