Department of English
Admission Procedure for Graduate Programs of the Department of English
Year 2024/25
Enrollment Procedure for the Graduate Programs at the Department of English
Academic Year 2024/25
The prerequisite for enrolment in any of the four graduate programs at the Department of English is a completed undergraduate program in English or its equivalent. There is no specific enrollment exam. All candidates who submit a valid certificate of a completed undergraduate program in English (a 3-year program in English language and literature) may be included in the ranking procedure. Students will be ranked according to the weighted GPA in their undergraduate program in English.
*Your weighted GPA is calculated by multiplying the ECTS points of each prerequisite course by the grade achieved, adding all of these results together, and dividing the sum by the number of ECTS points provided by these courses. The prerequisite courses for a Graduate Programs at the Department of English are all courses from your undergraduate program in English.
Example:
An applicant has a grade of 5 from a course which is worth 4 ECTS points, a grade of 4 from a course which is worth 4 ECRS points, and a grade of 3 from a course which is worth 3 ECTS points.
5×4 + 4×4 + 3×3 = 30 + 16 + 9 = 45
45 ÷ (4+4+3) = 45 ÷ 11 = 4.0909090909; the resulting weighted GPA, rounded to three decimal spaces, is 4.090
Based on the ranking procedure, the Department of English enrols a maximum of 108 students in four graduate programs:
– Linguistics: max. 27 (with no more than 2 single major students);
– Literature and Culture: max. 27 (with no more than 2 single major students);
– Translation: max. 27 (with no single major students);
– TEFL: max. 27 (with no single major students).
The application and admission procedure for the graduate programs at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in the academic year 2024/25 will be held fully online via the online application and admission procedure from September 2nd to September 20th. No documentation will be accepted after the application deadline (September 20th). Students who, because of their academic schedules at other universities, cannot provide complete documentation, can enrol into the graduate programs at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences during our second round of applications, providing said documentation on September 26th or 27th.
As a part of the online application procedure, candidates are required to fill out the preference list form in which they will rank by preference the English Department graduate programs (from 1 to 5), as soon as it becomes available in the online application form. Placement in the Department of English graduate programs in the academic year 2024/25 will be determined based on the preference list and according to the weighted GPA rankings. The preference list is binding, and it is not possible to change it after submission. Applications without a list of preferences will be considered incomplete.
Additionally, candidates who have not completed their undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb are required to e-mail a certified grade transcript containing a separate list of their English Studies courses and their officially calculated weighted GPA to markomajerovic@gmail.com and vzgaga@gmail.com by September 20th, 2024, at noon (12:00). If the university where the student completed their undergraduate studies fails to issue a certified list of grades of their English Studies courses, the candidates must clearly underline, tick or mark the English studies courses on the issued transcript. Furthermore, if the university where the student completed their undergraduate studies fails to provide the weighted GPA for their English Studies courses, the candidate is required to provide that information in the e-mail. Applications without or clearly marked English studies courses on the transcript will be considered incomplete.
Students who are already enrolled into our Graduate program but need to formally enrol due to the requirements of their second major have to notify our department by sending an email to vzgaga@gmail.com and markomajerovic@gmail.com to inform us of their status.
All of the listed requirements also apply to our second round of applications, which will take place from September 28th to September 30th, 2024.
Candidates are strongly advised to regularly check the graduate application and admission homepage and the web page of the Department of English for news and updates.
September 5th, 2024
