Information about Final Exam period in the 2025/2026 autumn semester

Important dates & deadlines for graduating students in 2025/2026 autumn semester

Please see academic calendar of 2025/2026 for further information.

Regarding the clarity of the tasks, the summary below helps you to review the tasks related to the final exam, data verification, end of the student legal status.

Thesis submission and final examination:

If you wish to complete your studies and obtain a diploma in the autumn semester of the academic year 2025/2026, please read the following information carefully.
Students intending to take the final examination at the University of Pécs in the final examination period of December 2025 and January 2026, must comply with the following requirements of the University of Pécs

University of Pécs, Annex 5 of the Organisational and Operational Rules, Annex 5, Article 59. (8):

"The thesis shall be submitted electronically in the form determined by the University. The student is obliged to upload his/her thesis, the thesis title declaration and other required documents onto the University’s electronic system and commit himself/herself to it by submission. The faculties can prescribe the submission in printed form besides the electronic form."

Therefore, if you wish to graduate in the spring semester of the academic year 2025/2026, you will be required to register for final examination and submit a thesis.
 
Guides and deadlines:

Please note that you must register for final exam in Neptun within a certain timeline pointed above. Follow the links below for step-by-step instructions on how to register for the final exam and upload your thesis:

• Applying for the Final Exam
• Uploading the Thesis

Students, who have already submitted and uploaded their thesis in a previous semester and have a valid evaluation must also register for the final exam period!

Required documents

Please note that the submission of the thesis topic report form is a prerequisite.

Documents must be submitted to the relevant department.

• Thesis Topic Report Form for students studying in a BA degree program
• Thesis Topic Report Form for students studying in a MA degree program

Department Administrators

You can find more information about formal requirements of thesis on this link.

The thesis must include the "Declaration of originality for thesis" and also "Copyright disclaimer" documents. Both documents must be signed and inserted at the end of the thesis.
 

Students who no longer have active student status

For students who no longer have active student status, the fee for the final examination is 20 000 HUF according to Annex 1 of the Code of Charges and Benefits.

To transcribe an item, log in to Neptun, then choose the Finances/Payment menu. You will see a grey button labelled Transcribe item. If you click on it a pop-up window will show up.

Please fill it out according to the following:

• Payment titles: Service
• Terms: 2025/2026/1
• Subject: Final closing exam fee for those without student status

Then select Create item.

After you created the items, you can pay it as you would anything else. You can find all payment options on our website.

In this case VPOS (credit card payment in Neptun) is most advisable, as that shows up the fastest in Neptun. If you wish to pay by bank transfer, be sure to transfer to the university’s main HUF bank account – this could take a few days to be registered at the Central Registrar’s Office.

After obtaining the pre-degree certificate and having your status be ’Absolved’, the final examination can be taken as follows:

Article 50 (3) of Act CCIV of 2011 on National Higher Education:

"Students may take the final examination after obtaining the pre-degree certificate. The final examination may be taken in the final examination period following the award of the pre-degree certificate within the framework of the student's student legal status, and within two years after the termination of the student's status, in any examination period, according to the applicable training requirements. The Code of Studies and Examinations may make the final examination conditional upon the expiry of the second year after the issue of the final certificate. No final examination may be taken after the fifth year following the end of the student's student legal status.”

Recognition

Students who have not fulfilled the curricular requirements will NOT BE ADMITTED TO THE FINAL EXAM.

The examination period for students registered for the final exam will end on 29 November 2025. For those who take final exam can request course recognition until end of exam period. After that, course recognition cannot be processed. Applications received after this date will not be accepted by the Registrar's Office. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at student.humanities@pte.hu.

Pre-degree certificate

Students who registered for the final exam until the given deadline, will be notified about their current academic progress, and if any credits are missing, there will be a notification email send out to them.

Once the examination period for students registered for the final exam is over (29 November 2025) the Registrar’s Office will issue the pre-degree certificate for students, who fulfilled all the requirements of their curriculum and change their student status to ’Absolved’.

You can find even more detailed information about graduation on the faculty’s website: HERE.

Should you have any further questions, contact the Registrar’s Office via student.humanities@pte.hu