Have you completed secondary education and are you interested in further studies? Chose from studies at universities or higher vocational schools.

• Higher Vocational Schools
• Universities

Higher Vocational Schools

Higher vocational schools provide specialised education, which usually lasts two to three years. Graduates obtain a foundation degree (“diplomovaný specialista”, abbreviated DiS.). This qualification is not equivalent to a university degree.

Higher vocational schools offer study programmes in fields such as social pedagogy, advertising, artistic creation, nursing, paramedic studies, tourism, graphic design, and many others.

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A list of higher vocational schools is available on the following website:

• Atlas Školství – a list of higher vocational schools

Admission requirements for individual schools can be found on their respective websites.

Universities

Are you interested in studying at a university? Prague has the highest number of universities in the Czech Republic. There are dozens of public, private, and state universities offering hundreds of study programmes. A list of universities and study programmes can be found, for example, on www.vysokeskoly.cz, where you can filter institutions by fields of study and programmes. You can also consult the search portal www.atlasskolstvi.cz or the website of the Ministry of Education of the CR:

• MoE’s list of universities

You can pursue Bachelor’s, Master’s, or follow-up Master’s programmes in various forms of study: full-time, distance, or combined. Admission to university studies is conditional upon successful completion of the admission procedure, which is determined individually by each university. Some universities require applicants to pass written tests, oral interviews, talent exams, or a combination of these. Other universities admit students without entrance exams or solely on the basis of academic results from secondary school.

In some cases, applicants who are not Czech citizens or who did not complete their secondary school leaving exam in Czech may also be required to pass a Czech language exam as part of the admission procedure. Always check the admission requirements on the website of the specific university, faculty, or department, or contact the student affairs office.

If you find the university system difficult to navigate, you may seek a consultation with the Integration Centre or another organisation specialising in the integration of migrants in education (e.g. META).