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Enrolment
What do I bring to enrolment?
Have you met all the admission requirements? Congratulations! It's only by enrolling that you become a regular student of the FIT. You will need the following for the enrolment:
(optional) one 3.5x4.5 cm photograph, legibly signed and provided with your personal identification number on the reverse side (if this is easier for you than supplying the photograph electronically on the website. A decent selfie against a light monochromatic background is sufficient);
identity card (other identity document, passport) for check of registration sheet items;
officially authenticated copy of your school-leaving certificate - you cannot be enrolled without providing a proof of secondary education nostrification clause.
Enrollment will be handled by distance using mail. We will inform you in e-application and by letters.
Enrolment on 19 June
You will receive a registration sheet by mail well in advance of your registration. You will sign it and send it back to us with a certified copy of the school-leaving certificate. At the next earliest possible date of registration, we will write down all those whose letters have arrived and send them a message with official decision. Confirmation of study will then be sent by mail.
Additional dates
If you cannot send the letter with the documents for enrollment by the regular enrollment date, it does not matter - we will process the next ones on the 8th of July and the rest on 16th of September. Attention, it is not the date of dispatch that is decisive, but the delivery - therefore, please do not postpone the enrollment letters.
After enrolment
BUT Information System
As soon as your enrolment has been processed, your initial password for BUT's school-wide information system will become accessible in your electronic application. Using this password and your personal identification number (foreign nationals will use their birth code which is available in the Completed Data tab), you can activate your account for the BUT information system on the initialisation page of the IS BUT by setting the BUTpassword. You will learn your personal number and BUTlogin upon activation. You will then use the BUTlogin (or personal number - the two are interchangeable) for the school-wide agendas.
IS FIT
The Faculty has its own information system accessible using the faculty account. A summary on when to use which account is provided in the document on accounts; the homepage of the information system contains a link to the faculty login and password.
Request for Accomodation
Students are supposed to book an accommodation on-line by completing the Request for Accommodation. It is extremely important to apply for accommodation well in advance. Furhtermore, students with a visa obligation have to attach confirmation on accommodation to their visa application - the confirmation will be sent to student via email and to the particular embassy via data box after the delivery of all the visa application materials. For detailed information about the application (including deadlines), please refer to the ACS pages.
Student Identity Card
Another important step is to order a student identity card. On this page you can upload your photograph and select whether you wish to obtain a BUT student identity card or an ISIC card at a reduced price. You must provide a photograph and you must order a card. If you order your card in time (ideally by the end of July), you will receive it at the beginning of September. Otherwise, you will have no card during the first week of the semester (your colleagues will have to open the doors for you and you will not receive lunch in the canteen). Your student identity card serves as proof of study pursuant to the law (Section 57 (1)(a) of the Act on Higher Education Institutions).
Before the beginning of teaching
Courses
You will be automatically entrolled into all compulsory courses. Before the semester starts, you can look over the courses offered in the summer semester and, if you want, register elective courses. Registration for elective courses starts in the middle of September and ends at the end of the first week of the semester.
Recognition of passing an examination in the English language
As a rule, classes in the winter semester begin the last but one week in September (in 2020 this will be the week beginning Monday 21 September); the exact date is determined by the Academic Calendar. You can visit the faculty and collect your BUT student identity card or ISIC starting from approximately the first week in September (the exact date and instructions will be made available in the Study News).
The traditional Start@FIT event starts on the 17 September 2020, it introduces new students to the faculty and to one another. The students will receive basic information about their studies and learn how to use available information systems. They will also learn how to search for information that might be needed during their studies. We recommend that that the participants move into the dormitories on 16 September 2020. Thise option should be available online;if not, it can be arranged by phone or in person with the contact persons at the Halls of Residence. Just mention that you are attending Start@FIT.
Groups for information systems tutorials
8:30AM A - Gl
9:45AM Go - Kod
11:00AM Koh - Mich
12:45PM Mik - Sl
2:00PM Sm - Ž
Introduction to academia, Informal meeting with Academics
You are invited to the FIT courtyard (in front of Building D; if it rains, in lecture room D105), whre you will meet academics and employees of FIT. After a brief introduction to the academic environment and FIT, you can enjoy the rest of the evening, chat and meet academics. Refreshments are included.
Matriculation
Matriculation, which takes place on the last Friday before the beginning of classes in winter semester, is an academic ceremony which takes place on the occasion of admitting students for their studies. Attendance in matriculation is de facto compulsory. For detailed information and division into groups, please refer to the Study News.
Worker and fire safety mandatory tutorial
After each block of matriculations, the worker and fire safety tutorials will take place. These are mandatory.
Guided Tours of the Faculty
After every block of matriculations, the Student Union will host guided tours of the faculty; the Student Club "U kachničky" (U Kachničky - At the Duckling) will be opened, too.
Registration of courses
The registration of courses and schedule is going to take place on Saturday. Moreover, Day of the closed doors and the Escape game is also going to take place. If You are going to need help with registrations. Registrations begin at mid day by team registrations. More inforation, including the schedule, check the 1st year section on the study advisor pages.
Barbecue and Getting to Know Brno
On Sunday, you can play "Brnění" (a game about getting to know Brno) from 11 AM until 3 PM and you can barbecue with Student Union of FIT and FEEC students.
Students who have studied at BUT before need not (and in fact cannot) set their BUTpassword. The password they used most recently remains valid. In addition, their previous faculty account is only reactivated. If a student has a student identity card (from any faculty), he/she need not order a new card. The identity card is activated at the time of enrolment; for the identity card to be used as proof of study, it is necessary to have the validation stamp glued to it at the Study Department. The ISIC validation stamp should be ordered at the BUT portal, whereas the BUT validation stamp can be collected in person. The BUT stamp can also be used to validate ISIC, thus reducing it to a BUT card.