1. Check in to your designated dormitory (or your rented flat) and sign your contract/lease agreement.
2. Register in our electronic study system (called Neptun) personally at your faculty’s registrar’s office. Please, remember to bring the original copy of your high school diploma/BA degree/MA degree as you will have to show these at the time of enrollment!
3. Visit the Immigrations Office to apply for your residence permit.
4. After you arrive, you will need to sign your student contract with the University of Pécs – further information will be provided to you later on.
5. Although a fully-comprehensive health insurance is part of your scholarship, it will only be valid after you receive your insurance card. This may take several weeks, therefore we highly recommend you to purchase a travel insurance for the first two months of your stay in order to have a full coverage until you receive your National Health Insurance Card.
6. Last, but not least, please read our SH Student Guide carefully and keep it with you at all times, it contains crucial information about your academic and administrative tasks ahead of you!
For your very first semester you need to personally visit your faculty’s registrar’s office and sign the matriculation form. Please, do not forget to take the original copy of your high school diploma/BA, BSc degree/MA, MSc degree.
After your matriculation (enrolment) please, make sure you update ALL of your personal data in Neptun, especially your name, exactly as it is written in your passport!
What is the NEPTUN Unified Education System and how can I use it?
Faculty of Business and Economics
7622 Pécs, Rákóczi út 80.
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
7624 Pécs, Boszorkány út 2.
Faculty of Health Sciences
7621 Pécs, Vörösmarty Mihály utca 4.
Faculty of Humanities
7624 Pécs, Ifjúság útja 6. building D.
Faculty of Law
7622 Pécs, 48-as tér 1
Faculty of Music and Visual Arts
7630 Pécs, Zsolnay Vilmos u. 16.
Faculty of Medicine
7624 Pécs, Szigeti út 12.
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
7624 Pécs, Szigeti út 12.
Faculty of Sciences
7624 Pécs, Ifjúság útja 6. building A.
Incoming Stipendium Hungaricum freshmen have the opportunity to choose a student mentor by registering on the SH Mentor Network's website: http://shmentor.hu
Should you have any problems, please find the contact details of the Stipendium Hungaricum Mentor Network’s team below:
National Union of Students
https://www.facebook.com/HOOK.SHMH
http://hook.hu/
Email: shmh@hook.hu
Adress: 1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 7-8.
The Stipendium Hungaricum Office of the University of Pécs is situated at the Rector's Cabinet.
Addrress: H‐7622 Pécs, Vasvári Pál utca 4., 1st floor, Office 102.
Office hours for students:
Tuesdays: 13:00-15:00, Thursdays: 9:00-11:00
Address: 7623 Pécs, Csend utca 3.
Opening hours:
Monday: 8:00-17:30
Tuesday: 8:00-16:00
Wednesday: 7:30-12:00
Thursday: 8:00-16:00
Friday: CLOSED
One week after picking up your residence permit from the CRO, you will receive an e-mail containing a QR code from the Immigrations Office. This will be your electronic address card. Please, keep this with you on your mobile phone along with your residence permit.
Please note that it is your legal obligation to update your contact information (including your address, phone number, e-mail address) on enterhungary.gov.hu, while living in Hungary!
Attention! ’enterhungary.hu’ and ’enterhungary.com’ domains are non-official agency websites, where they charge you for their services! The official website ends with ’gov.hu’.
First, go to the ‘Government Office’ to fill out the application document.
Address: Szántó Kovács János u. 1.
Opening hours: Mon: 7:00-17:00, Tue: 8:00-12:00, Wed: 8:00-16:00, Thu: 8:00-18:00, Fri: 8:00-13:30), take passport and student status certificate with you!
1. Provide your personal data exactly as it is written in your passport! You will receive a paper there, please make sure that your data on the paper matches exactly with your data in Neptun (if your data is different in the system, please visit the Registrar’s Office at your faculty and ask them to update your personal data)! Fill in the ‘NEK’ number from this document to NEPTUN. What is the NEPTUN Unified Education System and how can I use it?
2. After 2 days you can go to the Central Registrar’s Office (KTI, address: Faculty of Law, Buliding Z, lower ground floor H‐7622 Pécs, 1-3. Dohány utca, opening hours: Monday – Thursday: 9:00-15:00, Friday: 9:00-17:00) to pick up your temporary student card (valid for 60 days only!).
3. After 4 weeks you you will receive a Neptun notification to pick up your permanent student card at Central Registrar’s Office (it has to be validated for every semester by a sticker at the Central Registrar’s Office – otherwise you will be fined by the conductors on trains, buses!).
PLEASE NOTE: preparatory COURSE/EXCHANGE Students have to renew THEIR temporary student card every 60 days!
Please log in to your Neptun account and click on the ’Administration’ tab, then
click on ‘Requests’ where you can find the form under
the name ’PTE-Request form for the social security (TAJ) card’.
When submitting an application, you must upload the following documents:
Important:
Before the final submission of your application please, make sure that the data on your documents matches exactly your data in Neptun (if your data is different in Neptun, please visit your Registrar’s Office at your faculty and ask them to update your data in Neptun)!
After submitting your application, an administrator will check your request. If they find any errors, your application will be sent back to you for correction. If your application is correct, it will be forwarded to the Central Registrar’s Office (CRO). Once your application is accepted, an automatic message will be sent to you from the CRO with further instructions regarding the process.
As soon as your card is shipped to the CRO, you will be notified again. It takes approximately 3-4 weeks to issue your ’TAJ’ card.
The above process applies both to the application for a new TAJ card and to the extension of an expired TAJ card.
Should you have any questions, please contact: infokti@pte.hu
Please note: Without your medical insurance, you are not entitled to free medical treatment in Hungary! Your insurance card also provides you with a discount on prescribed medicine!
What is the NEPTUN Unified Education System and how can I use it?
Yes, it is necessary to open a Hungarian bank account as your SH monthly allowances can only be transferred to a Hungarian account. Your account number must be indicated in Neptun as well. We recommend OTP Bank’s branch office in Rákóczi út 1., 7621 Pécs.
What is the NEPTUN Unified Education System and how can I use it?
Please, be advised, you will only receive your monthly allowance(s) if all of the criteria below are met:
- You have enrolled and activated your semester
- You have received your residence permit at the Immigration Office
- You have signed the Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship contract in our office before 30. September (in the fall semester) / 28. Februrary (in the spring semester).
- You have opened a Hungarian bank account
- Your letter of award is valid (issued by Tempus Public Foundation)
- You have filled in your Hungarian bank account number into Neptun
You will lose your SH scholarship in any of the following cases:
•You fail to enrol and activate your semester
•You have not acquired at least 36 credits in any last two active semesters!
•You have not signed the SH student contract in our office
•You are not living habitually in Hungary (i.e. leaving Hungary for more than 10 days without permission from the University)
•Your letter of award expires and you fail to request and receive an extension from Tempus
•Your student status is terminated by the University (please refer to the Code of Studies and Examination)
Losing your scholarship holder status does not mean the losing of your student status. You may still remain a fee-paying student of the University of Pécs without the SH Scholarship benefits. For more information, please read the Stipendium Hungaricum Operational Regulation.
If you get sick (e.g. fever, flu, diarrhea, sore throat etc.) you will need to write an email to the GP within opening hours. Always have your Hungarian health insurance card or EU HELFO card or PTE GENERALI card with you to access free acute treatment (otherwise one meeting with the doctor costs HUF 6000). If necessary, the GP may redirect you to a specialist for special treatment. Prescribed medicines can be bought at any pharmacies/drug stores with the prescription from the doctor.
General Practitioner of the University of Pécs
Entrance to the building from here: Szendrey Júlia utca 10.
E-mail: gp@pte.hu or haziorvos@pte.hu Please ask for an appointment via e-mail (they reply within 24 hours during weekdays).
Tel.: +36 72 507 523
Opening hours:
Monday: 8:30 - 11:30, 12:00 - 15:00,
Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday: 8:30 - 15:00,
Friday: 8:00 - 12:00, 13:00 - 14:00
If you are an SH, DSP, or SCYP scholarship holder, always have your Hungarian health insurance card (’TAJ’ card), PASSPORT, ADDRESS CARD, and LETTER OF AWARD with you to access free treatment; otherwise, one meeting with the doctor costs HUF 6000. If necessary, the GP may redirect you to a specialist for special treatment. Prescribed medicines can be bought at any pharmacy/drug store with a prescription from the doctor.
If you fall sick outside the GP’s opening hours and you have a serious illness (and you are able to get there yourself), you will need to go to the General Practitioner on duty. (weekdays: from 4 pm to 10 pm); Saturdays, Sundays and on holydays: 8 am-2 pm),
Address: Janus Pannonius Clinical Bloc, Department of Emergency Medicine level, Ifjúság út 13. (entrance from Honvéd utca) 400 Bed Clinic
Opening hours: weekdays from 3 pm to 7 am; Saturdays, Sundays and on holydays: 0-24
With dental issues first go to Veress Endre utca 2. ('Egyesített Egészségügyi Intézmények, III.sz. Rendelőintézet') and find out which dental district you belong to, then visit your designated dentist. Or visit the following website (in Hungarian): https://pecs.hu/vegyes-fogorvosi-korzetek/#adatbazis
Basic treatments are for free with your ’TAJ’ card and your address card, but more complex dental treatments are to be paid by the patient.
If you are in an emergency situation call 112, the toll free general emergency number in the European Union (Ambulance, Police, Fire Department).
Pharmacies are all over the city and you can even get your prescribed medicines after opening hours (for a surcharge) at the all-night (on duty) pharmacy: SIPO Zsolnay Patika (next to Penny Market store), address: 7622 Pécs, Zsolnay Vilmos u. 8.
If you feel depressed and you feel you are unable to tackle the obstacles ahead of you, get in touch with our Student Counselling, UP’s professional, discreet and responsive psychological support for everyday life!
Contact: http://counselling.pte.hu/contact/
In order to receive dormitory placement all students must fill out the online application form of the Student Union. First year students have priority in the application process. Dormitory allocations are non-negotiable.
In case you are unable to settle a dispute with your landlord get in touch with the university’s Legal Aid Clinic program, a free service which offers help to know your way around in the labyrinth of legal issues. Contact them whenever you have housing, residence, consumer or civil law related problems.
Contact:
Website: http://legalclinic.hu/index.php/en/legal-aid
Facebook: Campus Legal Aid Clinic
Address: 7622 Pécs, Dohány utca 1-3., floor 2.
E-mail: jogklinika@ajk.pte.hu
At the University of Pécs, extension requests cannot be submitted under the Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Programme. Instead, scholarship holders at the end of their final semester may submit a tuition reduction request (as fee-paying students). Each registrar’s office will decide based on their policy.
Steps of the procedure:
A student whose scholarship status ends on July 31, 2025 (or in a later semester) can only continue their studies as a self-financed student.
When their scholarship status expires, and they require additional semesters to finish their studies, the registrar's office will send a notification to all affected students along with the "student statement on changing the financial mode of studies to tuition-paying status" document. If students wish to apply for a tuition fee reduction, first, they must agree to continue their studies as self-funded students by returning the above-mentioned document signed to the registrar's office (by August 10 at the latest).
If a student undertakes to continue their studies at their own expense, the registrar's office uploads the signed statement to the student's official records in Neptun, and a tuition fee will be levied.
Students can enrol in the next semester only under self-financed status
(after 10 August).The semester's full tuition fee will be levied on the student.
The student may submit a tuition fee reduction request to the registrar's office in accordance with faculty rules, provided the faculty supports such requests.
The registrar's office will decide on the request:
a, 100% tuition-fee reduction
b, Partial tuition-fee reduction
c, No tuition-fee reduction
The student's tuition-fee will be reduced according to the RO's decision.
Please, note: After their scholarship status ends, students will no longer be eligible for the Hungarian National Health Insurance (TAJ card). Thus, we encourage everyone to buy student health insurance at Generali Insurance Company.
We recommend visiting the local partner of Generali and arranging coverage as soon as possible to ensure your well-being. Below, you will find details about the local office of New West Ltd., the official partner of Generali Insurance Company.
Generali’s STUDIUM insurance, provided by Generali Biztosító Zrt. (Generali Insurance Ltd.), offers fee-for-service health insurance coverage exclusively within Hungary. It is designed primarily for foreign students aged 18 to 65 enrolled at the University of Pécs who are not covered by the Hungarian state insurance scheme. If you hold a residence permit for an extended stay in Hungary, having appropriate health insurance is essential, and Generali’s STUDIUM insurance is a suitable option.
Where can you find the New West office?
You can sign a contract at the office of New West Ltd., in the city center, address: 7621 Pécs, Jókai tér 5.
Phone: +36 72 511-355
Mobil: +36 30 817 0291
E-mail: info@newwest.hu
Opening hours:
Monday - Thursday: 8:00-16:00
Friday: 8:00-14:00
You can find detailed information here.
