Welcome to our new students
Orientation and other useful information
Orientation Week
The Orientation Week is organized for new international students at ELTE Faculty of Humanities at the beginning of each academic semester.
- Date: 4-7 February 2025
- Location: on campus
- Orientation Week Programme
Online Pre-Orientation
The online pre-orientation is intended to help our new students prepare for the semester, course registration, and arrival at Hungary. You can 'meet' your coordinators, and there is also a Question&Answer session after the presentation.
- For Erasmus and other exchange students - 09.01.2025. 10:30 AM (Budapest time-zone)
- For full-time guest students (ZJCM) - 10.01.2025. 10:00 AM (Budapest time-zone)
Useful to read
Contact us! Your coordinators at the Department of International Affairs
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Monday: 13.00-16.00
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Tuesday: no office hours
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Wednesday: 9.00-12.00, 13.00-16.00
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Thursday: no office hours
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Friday: no office hours
For Erasmus students
If you are going to have your Erasmus semester(s) with us, you can find further specific Erasmus info on the following page:
https://btk.elte.hu/en/incoming-mobility
Information about the enrolment process (Only for full-time BA/MA students)
All Freshmen must go through the registration & enrolment process, this will be the first administrative step of your student life at ELTE. The registration & enrolment happens in person by showing all necessary documents.
Registration & enrolment in person consists of 3 steps
- electronic enrolment in the Neptun system (done by the student before arrival)
- registration (in person) at your international coordinator at the Department of International Affairs (only with booked appointment, see the next section)
- enrolment (in person) at the Office of Educational Affairs (you can go there after registering at the Dept. of International Affairs) - Guide on how to book an appointment; Venue: Room 24 (map)
Appointment booking
Happens via our “Kronosz” client booking system. You can enter Kronosz with your ELTE account OR Neptun code and password at kronosz.elte.hu.
- Click on “Booking”.
- Choose which office you would like to book to (Department of Interanational Affairs).
- Choose the Other/Choose coordinator only or the Enrolment option.
- Choose your administrative coordinator (Mr Rezső JARMALOV - Stipendium Hungaricum or Ms Dóra GIMES - self-paying students.
- Choose an appointment date and time that is suitable for you offered by the system.
Enrolment documents:
- Letter of Acceptance received from ELTE
- passport
- your original certificate of matriculation (graduation certificate from high school studies)
- If you will be an MA student: your BA degree certificate
- your Hungarian address (zip code, city, name of the street, floor, apartment number)
- your mobile phone number in Hungary
- student visa page
- 2 passport photos (colour) – Write your full name at the back with capital letters
- Confirmation of Payment about having paid your tuition fee
- Your language certificate
- Enrolment sheet printed and signed from Neptun study system
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For Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship holders also:
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tax card (if you already have one)
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TAJ card (if you already have one)
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Hungarian bank account number (if you already have one)
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How to print the Enrolment sheet from Neptun?
- Log in to Neptun.
- Entering the Neptun System, in the upper corner on the left side, please, click on “Training” and choose your programme from the list.
- Click on “Information”, then on “General forms”.
- Next to the document called Enrolment sheet, click on the sign “+” and choose the option “Print”.
- Sign the document.
- Pack this document together with all other documents necessary for the registration (enrolment).
Do you need a student mentor?
How to pick up my residence permit?
All residence permits for the purpose of study are sent to the address of the university by post. You can receive your residence permit at the ELTE Quaestura Office, shortly after it arrives. Please wait for a notification from the Quaestura with the time and place to receive your card.
Info on visa and residence permit: https://www.elte.hu/en/visa-procedure
Presentations of the Orientation Week 2024/25/1 (from 3. September 2024)