A visiting student is a foreign student who, during his/her current studies at the university where he/she is registered (home university), chooses to attend certain courses and take the courses exams, in another university (host university) for a semester up to an entire academic year without receiving a diploma.
There is no need for the two universities (home and host) to have previous bilateral agreements.
The visiting student / free mover:
- does not receive a scholarship from the host university;
- is enrolled as a temporary student (visiting student / free mover);
- pays tuition fees, equal to the amount of fees set for 1st year Romanian students.
II. Enrollment procedure
The documents required for enrolment are the following:
- Application form for Free Movers;
- A document issued by the university where the student is registered proving the student status and the year of study;
- Transcript of Records translated in Romanian;
- Copy of the identity card;
- Medical certificate;
- Copy of the Learning Agreement:
The required documents will be sent by e-mail to a representative of the International Cooperation and Foreign Students Office before the 1st of August, for the first semester or for the entire current academic year and before the 1st of February for the second semester.
Incomplete files – files with missing documents, unsigned and unstamped documents or partially signed, will lead to the rejection of the file.
The representative of the International Cooperation and Foreign Students Office will forward the candidates’ files to the faculties for which they opt. After verifying the documents and after the approval of the faculty, a letter of acceptance is issued signed by the head of the International Cooperation and Foreign Students Office. If the candidate's file is rejected, the file is returned.
The acceptance letter will be sent to the student by e-mail (scanned version).
At the beginning of the academic year, students complete a Study Contract and hand over the 3 (three) original copies of the Learning Agreement, as well as the transcript, in original and translated into Romanian. After verifying, signing and registering the Learning Agreement, the representatives of the faculty secretariat will keep a copy, one copy remains with the visiting student and one for the university of origin.
Courses usually start on October 1st of the current year and indicate the beginning of the first semester. The second semester begins according to the structure of the current academic year for the first and second cycle of university studies.
After the courses start, within 30 days, students have the opportunity to change the Learning Agreement by choosing other disciplines they want to study (by completing the document Changes of the Learning Agreement).
Students have the obligation to participate in all forms of teaching activity (courses, seminars, tutoring, practical courses, projects and practice) for which they have opted in the Learning Agreement or which they have modified by completing the Changes of the Learning Agreement, as well as the right to use the laboratories, offices, amphitheaters, lecture and seminar rooms, reading rooms, sports facilities and other resources of the university made available, for the best possible professional training.
Each study program is assigned a professor responsible for mobility for the respective academic year, and at the beginning of the mobility stage, the visiting student contacts him/her to clarify any doubts he/she may have and receive explainations of the local study methods.
Visiting students can only choose the subjects related to the semester they have chosen. It is not allowed to participate in other courses, seminars, tutorials, practical works, projects and practice, compared to those completed in the Learning Agreement and in Changes of the Learning Agreement.
At the end of the mobility, the faculty will issue the Transcript of Records for the visiting students. The transcript will be issued within 30 days of the end of the exam session, by the faculty secretariat.
The terms for paying the tuiton fees are:
- 1 – 17 October for visiting students who study in the first semester and who will pay half of the tuition fee equal to the amount of fees set for 1st year Romanian students;
- 1 – 20 March for visiting students who study in the second semester and who will pay half of the tuition fee equal to the amount of fees set for 1st year Romanian students;
- 1 – 17 October and 1 – 20 March for visiting students who study for an entire academic year and who will pay the tuition fees set for 1st year Romanian students, in two instalments.
After paying the fee, the visiting students take a copy of the proof of payment of the fee to the secretariat of the faculty where they were enrolled. Failure to pay or failure to respect the payment deadline will result in the student being expelled.
Visiting students have the right to request accommodation in student dormitories, for a fee, depending on the availability of rooms, by completing the document Accommodation form for FREE MOVERS.
