Student card

To obtain your student card swiftly, please follow these steps:

1. Check your Neptun account for your Education ID Your Education ID should be available in Neptun under “My data”/personal information. This is necessary for issuing a temporary student card and processing the student card application. Please note that freshmen usually receive their education ID in the second half of September.
2. Submit your Student Card application If you have got your Education ID, go to the Application tab.
3. Send your NEK data sheet to studentcard@semmelweis.hu or upload it here
   1. Make sure that the NEK data sheet and your Neptun details match.
   2. Neptun must contain both your permanent address (in your home country) and your residency address (in Hungary). Otherwise, we cannot submit a claim.
   3. Information on how to enter the address to Neptun and how to finalise the Student Card application can be found on the Neptun FAQ page, under question 5: ”How can I upload my residency address?” and under question 22: ”How can I finalise my Student Card application in Neptun?”
4. Wait for notification and then come to the Registrar’s Office to take your temporary Student Card/plastic Student Card.
   1. You will be notified by email once your card is ready. Please note that Temporary Student Card can only be collected in person.
   2. When collecting your card, please select the “student card” option at the ticket machine.
   3. Please note that the plastic Student Card must be validated with a sticker for each semester your student status is active. Please take care of your plastic Student Card and the sticker on its backside, because if you lose them, you will have to pay a surcharge.

Validity periods:

• Autumn semester sticker is valid until 31 March.
• Spring semester sticker is valid until 31 October.
• The temporary Student Card is valid for two months.
• The NEK data sheet is valid for five years.

1. To obtain a new student card, you must first have an official photo taken and provide your official signature at Központi Okmányiroda (Central Document Office).

2. There you will be given a NEK (Nemzeti Egységes Kártyarendszer) data sheet. Please check all data on the document. The data on the given form has to be the same as it is in your Neptun. The NEK form has a 16-character identification number in the upper right corner.

3. Log in to your Neptun and enter your addresses (the temporary Hungarian address and the permanent address in your home country) if they are not in the system yet.

4. Go to “Administration” and click on “Student Card request” in the drop-down list.
A smiley will warn you not to add the hyphens when typing in your 16 character NEK identifier into the yellow text box!

• Click on the grey tab “Add new” and type your 16 character NEK identifier into the blank called “NEK azonosító”
• Then choose “Demand type”. Check that your permanent (home) address is correct and appears in the “Street, number” text box. Do not set a code in the field of second institution code.

5. Please send the NEK data sheet to studentcard@semmelweis.hu

6. If the above has been completed the process of the student card application will be started.

Downloads

Student Card Information (pdf)