ECTS – General Information

ECTS, the European Credit Transfer System, was developed by the Commission of the European Communities in order to provide common procedures to guarantee academic recognition of studies abroad. It provides a way of measuring and comparing learning achievements and transferring them from one institution to another. This is achieved by a common ECTS credit unit and a common ECTS grading scale. ECTS also improves access to information about foreign curricula.

ECTS is based on the principle of mutual trust and confidence between the institutions of higher education that participate in the ECTS-system. The use of the tools and key documents should create a solid base for enhanced quality in the field of European student mobility.

ECTS credits are values that are allocated to course units to describe the student workload that is required to complete them. The credits reflect the quantity of work each course requires in relation to the total quantity of work required to complete a full year of academic study at an institution: lectures, practical work, seminars, workshops, etc. Sixty (60) ECTS credits represent the workload of one academic year of study. They equal to 1,500 to 1,800 hours per year. That means, 1 ECTS-unit symbolizes the working performance of 25 till 30 hours.

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