Faculty of Arts

Conversion

If your study abroad programme took place within the EU, no conversion form is required, as all EU universities use ECTS. However, universities outside Europe may use different credit systems to measure course workload. If that is the case, your credits obtained during your study abroad need to be converted to ECTS before they can be added to your course overview in Osiris. In order to receive the credits for your study abroad programme, you need to submit a request to the Examination Board. Please follow the steps below.

Please note that the Faculty of Arts only converts credits to ECTS, your grades obtained abroad are not shown on your RU transcript. If you wish to convert your grades as well, you need to submit a request to the examination board.

Converting Credits from outside the European Union

To see how your obtained credits relate to ECTS, you can view document at the bottom of this page.

In order to validate the credits with the Examination Board, you need a signed conversion form. The form needs to be signed by the International Office Arts and you can submit it below to get it signed. We will sign it as soon as possible (approximately within 2 weeks).

Be sure to include the following attachments:

  • A certified overview of the course credits you obtained abroad (Transcript of Records). This document needs to be signed by your host university.
  • If not included in your Transcript of Records: a short description of the grading system used by the host university.
  • Optional: A certificate for a (language) course that's not on your Transcript of Records.
  • A Conversion Form that has been partly filled in by you. You can find the document here:
Conversion form (docx, 59 kB)

Submit your request to the Examination Board

NOTE: If you studied outside of the EU, please know you can only submit your request after you received the signed Conversion form!

You will submit your credit transfer request to the Examination Board. For this you need the following:

  1. Your original LA, signed by all
  2. (If applicable) all During the Mobility forms, signed by all
  3. Your official Transcript of Records, received from the host university
  4. (If you studied outside the EU) the Conversion form with signature of the Internationals Office Arts
Fields marked with  * are mandatory.
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Did you go abroad before September 2024? *

Your conversion form / ToR

Please make sure you thourougly check your Conversion Form before submitting it. After you have filled in the online form, you will receive an confirmation email. We try to sign the Conversion Form as soon as possible. If you resubmit another Conversion Form, then this will go to the end of the queue.

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