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Railway Transport
Graduates are employable at all levels of management of railway transport in the Slovak Republic and within the EU, especially as technologists and managers of railway infrastructure managers, railway undertakings, transport operators, including professional transport groups and associations in the EU. Graduates are also prepared to work for coordinators of integrated transport systems, in forwarding and logistics companies, in design, research and development organisations focusing on transport, in transport departments of industrial enterprises, state and local government bodies, as well as in secondary vocational schools and higher education institutions. In addition, the Department, in cooperation with the Railways of the Slovak Republic carry out the training courses to acquire professional competence for the type position of an ŽSR (Railways of Slovak Republic) employee as a signalman, switch supervisor, switchman and dispatcher. Courses are conducted outside the regular teaching. Upon successful completion of the course, the student receives a corporate scholarship from ŽSR (Railways of Slovak Republic).
Prospects of graduates
Graduates are employable at all levels of management of railway transport in the Slovak Republic and within the EU, especially as technologists and managers of railway infrastructure managers, railway undertakings, transport operators, including professional transport groups and associations in the EU. Graduates are also prepared to work for coordinators of integrated transport systems, in forwarding and logistics companies, in design, research and development organisations focusing on transport, in transport departments of industrial enterprises, state and local government bodies, as well as in secondary vocational schools and higher education institutions. In addition, the Department, in cooperation with the Railways of the Slovak Republic carry out the training courses to acquire professional competence for the type position of an ŽSR (Railways of Slovak Republic) employee as a signalman, switch supervisor, switchman and dispatcher. Courses are conducted outside the regular teaching. Upon successful completion of the course, the student receives a corporate scholarship from ŽSR (Railways of Slovak Republic).
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The condition is completion of level 1 of the university study and setting the order of applicants according to the order based on the achieved arithmetic study result average during the study at the first level university study. Those applicants shall be preferred who attended the same study program at the first level university study and only in case the number of applicants is not filled up, then this study programme will be completed with applicants from a related study programme.
The applicants accepted for the study that attended university study in a different study programme (already have a title of level 2) will be registered into the first year of engineer study only after payment of the fee whose amount is determined according to the Act No. 131/2002 Coll., Section 92 on universities and in compliance with the statute of The University of Žilina in Žilina.
Conditions for international students
Foreign study applicants are admitted on the basis of relevant intergovernmental agreements, or study at their own expense.The applicants from EU countries are admitted and study under the same conditions as the students from the Slovak Republic. The applicants from the Czech Republic may use for submitting the study application form valid in the Czech Republic. In case of applicants who do not actively speak Slovak or Czech, a successful completion of language training (with possibility of performance at the ZU in Zilina) is required.
Foreign study applicants that study at their own expenses shall submit the required materials (documents of previous study, etc.) and according to the individual assessment of the applicant the dean of the faculty shall decide on acceptance (non-acceptance) for the study without entrance exams. More detailed information and criteria for assessment of the applicants in the admission procedure for full-time and part-time Bachelor and engineer study are published on the website of the faculty (http://www.fpedas.uniza.sk).
Conditions of admission without the entrance exam
The applicants for this study programme shall be accepted only in the form of an entrance interview, without writing tests.
Obligatory addenda to application form
The details on the results of the preceding study of the applicants that were or are the students of the Bachelor study at the Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications of The University of Žilina shall be enclosed to the application by the study department of the Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications of The University of Žilina. Other applicants shall enclose the extract of subjects and marks gained during the preceding university study confirmed by the faculty or the university that issued the extract and the document on study completion (diploma).
The copy of the slip on payment of the fee or the copy of the transfer order (must be pasted on the third page above the signature of the applicant). The applicant is obliged to bring the original copy of the slip on payment of the fee or the original copy of the transfer order in person for presentation on the day of the admission procedure to the room determined according to the invitation.
CV.
A verified copy of the university diploma (Bc., Ing.).
Form of entrance exam
entrance interview without writing tests
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Apply the application for study
01.11.2024 - 30.04.2025
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Performance of the entrance exam
12.06.2025 - 13.06.2025
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Additions
- CV (electronic form)
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Annual tuition fees
Standard length of study: cost free
Study longer than the standard length of study program, parallel studies: 1100 €
The fee for admission procedure
application form: 30 €
E-application form: 30 €
Billing information
Bank: State Treasury
Account number: 7000269888/8180
Variable symbol: 10132
Constant symbol: 0308
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Responsibility for content: prof. Ing. Miloš Poliak, PhD. – milos.poliak@fpedas.uniza.sk
Last update: 16.08.2024 08:42