How to advance your Master’s courses
After being admitted to your Master’s degree programme, you can advance some of your future Master's courses. You need to drag and drop them into your Bachelor's APSP (Annual Personal Study Plan) following the procedure for the creation of your APSP. These courses are not included in your Bachelor's PSP (Personal Study Plan) but will be displayed in violet in your APSP.
You can choose among two different enrolment workloads for your APSP:
- full-time enrolment: in this case you can add to your Annual Personal Study Plan a maximum of 80 credits including your Bachelor's incomplete courses (maximum 23 credits, including the foreign language exam and the Final Examination) + your Master's first-year courses offered in first semester. If you graduate by March, you will be able to enrol in your Master’s degree programme and you will pay only the cost of the revenue stamp. You will be able to add to your APSP your Master's second-semester courses, bearing in mind that you need to stick to the limit of 80 credits per academic year.
- part-time enrolment: in this case you can add to your Annual Personal Study Plan a maximumof 40 credits including your Bachelor's incomplete courses (maximum 23 credits, including the foreign language exam and the Final Examination) + your Master's first-year courses offered in first semester. If you graduate by March, you will be able to enrol in the Master’s degree programme and you will pay only the cost of the revenue stamp (see Tuition Fee Guide). You will be able to add to your APSP your Master's second-semester courses, bearing in mind that you need to stick to the limit of 40 credits per academic year. We remind you that if you choose a part-time workload in order to be able to advance your Master's courses, you will not be able to switch to a full-time workload upon enrolment in second semester. You will keep your part-time status.
You can advance the courses which belong to all the Master’s degree programmes you applied for. This means that if you applied for two programmes, you can add courses from both programmes to your APSP. This is because advancing Master’s courses IS NOT equivalent to enrolling in a Master’s degree programme. Enrolment will be possible only after you get your Bachelor’s degree.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
If you are going to graduate in September and October, you must NOT create your PSP/APSP for the new academic year. After graduation you will be able to enrol in the Master’s degree programme and fill out the corresponding PSP/APSP. For this reason you do not need to advance any Master’s courses.
You can apply for admission to a Master’s degree programme and advance some of your Master’s courses even if you do not have a language certificate yet (and your Apply page displays the following message «Language requirements unfulfilled»).
If you included in your APSP the Master’s courses that you want to advance but at end of the September examination session you still have more than 23 unearned credits to graduation, these courses will be deleted from your APSP.
(Our offices will verify this requirement after the exams taken in September are recorded in your transcript by the teaching staff. Therefore the results might become available at the end of October).
Please note
- Master’s courses can be advanced one time only during the entire duration of your Bachelor’s degree programme;
- if you advanced some Master’s courses but you do no longer meet the requirements for this operation, these courses will be automatically deleted from your APSP;
- courses which have been advanced (attended but not passed and/or passed and recorded in your transcript) will be automatically transferred to your Master’s APSP;
- you are not allowed to advance any course offered in second semester;
- if you advanced some Master’s courses, but you do graduate by March, these courses will remain on your APSP and you will be able to take the corresponding exams during the Summer and Fall examination sessions;
- if you pass the English language exam in the September IELTS session, the English credits do not count towards the limit of unearned credits allowed for advancing Master’s courses (max. 23 unearned credits)
- internships (already included in your APSP in previous academic years) and recordedin your transcript before 31st December do not count towards the limit of unearned credits allowed for advancing Master’s courses (max. 23 unearned credits);
- if you advanced some Master's courses and then decide to enrol in a different Master’s degree programme, you will not be able to include any first-semester courses belonging to your new Master's degree programme.