Outgoing

Completing one or more semesters at foreign universities and colleges not only offers substantial gains in experience for students’ professional future, the master programmes explicitly recommend such exchanges to foster creative inputs to the faculty.

Over past two decades, the European “Programme for Lifelong Learning” has defined aims and criteria for subsidising student mobility within its ERASMUS programme. 

Programms

ERASMUS is the most popular programme with students aiming to study abroad. Further subsidised possibilities exist for gaining valuable international experience that can be integrated in a student’s personal education, e.g. within the framework of joint study agreements between VUT and foreign institutions or through short-term scholarhips for research abroad.

Recognition of courses

At the host university, students may attend design studios, theoretical courses, and language courses. In the preliminary Learning Agreement, all selected courses are initially entered as Free Electives.
The final recognition of completed courses takes place after the student’s return. Design studios are credited as mandatory courses (VU) in the Bachelor’s programme or as design studios within the Master’s curriculum, provided that the content is deemed equivalent. The same applies to theoretical courses and special modules. Official recognition and the allocation of ECTS credits are carried out upon submission of the transcripts and after verification of equivalence in accordance with the applicable curriculum.
Courses taken at other institutions in the host country (e.g. language courses) may also be recognised, provided that an official transcript is available indicating both the grade and the workload (e.g. ECTS credits or number of hours).

 

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