INBOUND STUDENT MOBILITY: REQUIREMENTS FOR A SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION

ALL DOCUMENTS MUST BE SUBMITTED ONLINE

All required original documents must be uploaded electronically as PDF-file on the Application Web. Please do not send documents by E-mail or post unless explicitly requested by us.

Application Web (Søknadsweb)

Mandatory documents

MANAGE YOUR APPLICATION

There are no fees for submitting your documents on the Application Web.

There is no submit button.

Our application portal is based on self-service. We therefore gently pledge our students to exercize some independant judgment and effort by reading the email(s) that you have received and the information on our website concerning which documents you are required to upload within the specified deadlines. The ultimate responsibility rest on the applicant himself or herself when it comes to manage his or her own application and uploading all required documentation within the specified deadlines.

QUALIFICATION ATTESTION

- Original transcripts and explanation of grading system must be signed and stamped by the issuing institution before scanning them into PDF files for upload. We also accept electronic transcript of record and signatures as long as they are approved by your institution as an official document to be sumbitted to external partner universities for exchange.

TRANSLATIONS:

Upload the original documents together with the translated versions.

Official documents (*) issued in a different language than English or one of the Nordic languages (Danish, Norwegian & Swedish), must be translated into Norwegian or English. The translation must be done by the educational institution or a government-authorised translator. It must be apparent in the document which individual has done the translation with an official seal/stamp.

UPLOAD ONLY WHAT IS REQUESTED:

DOCUMENTS MUST BE IN PDF FORMAT:

Scan your original documents and convert them to PDF (Portable Document Format) files before upload. Scan the translations together with their originals into a single PDF file.

Passport or European ID Card must be in PDF

Certificate of English proficiency must be in PDF

Transcript of records must be in PDF

Learning Agreement must be in PDF

CV must be in PDF

DOCUMENTS MUST BE LEGIBLE:

Scanned original documents must be clear and legible. They must appear ‘right-side up’. Applications containing illegible documents will be rejected.

NAMING OF PDF FILES:

Please name your PDF file after your document. For example, translated bachelor diploma, translated bachelor transcript, original bachelor diploma, Learning Agreement, Passport, EU ID Card, etc.

DOCUMENTS CONSISTING OF SEVERAL PAGES MUST BE IN ONE PDF FILE:

Documents consisting of several pages must be scanned together into one document.

DO NOT UPLOAD PICTURE/IMAGE OR ZIP FILES:

Do not upload your documents as picture/image files (PNG, JPG, etc.), ZIP or RAR files!. Such files are easily corruptible after upload, which make them difficult to open during the application assessment.

CHECKING YOUR APPLICATION STATUS

You can log into your application profile via the Application Web (Søknadsweb). Make sure to remember your login e-mail (username) and your password. Documents uploaded after the deadline are not accepted.

CONFIRMATION OF RECEIPT

Confirmations of receipt will be sent automatically to your E-mail for each uploaded document.

Use your e-mail (username) and password to log into your account on the Application Web (Søknadsweb). It is your responsibility to make sure that all required documents are uploaded correctly.

DEADLINES:

You are responsible for uploading all required documentation, as well as ensuring that it is uploaded within the application deadline. As it may take several weeks for institutions and test centres to provide transcripts and/or test scores, please arrange for these documents to be issued as soon as possible to submitted within the specified deadlines.

DISCLAIMER:

You are liable for that the document that you have uploaded, i.e. that they represent accurate and unaltered information.

WARNING:

Wrongful or misleading information may lead to dismissal and loss of right to study. Submission of fraudulent documents is illegal, and will be reported to the appropriate authorities.

VERIFICATION OF CREDENTIALS:

RETENTION OF APPLICATION RECORDS:

UiT retains materials that support admission from one year after the first registration to five years after last activity on the student record, depending on the type of document. Please make sure to submit verified copies of your originals instead of submitting irreplaceable material to support your application.