Master’s degree programs

 Required documents

1. Application form
   *Applicants may state more than one desired program and faculty in the application form and they will be ranked in their order of preference.
2. A copy of the document for completed higher education (including the diploma supplement with grades), legalized, translated into Bulgarian and certified in accordance with the provisions of the international agreements of the Republic of Bulgaria with the country in which they were issued. When there are no such provisions and treaties, the general procedure for legalization, translation, and certification of documents and other papers must be followed. Applicants who have acquired higher education in foreign higher education institutions go through a procedure for the recognition of the higher education diploma in advance (Recognition of higher education acquired at a foreign higher education institution).
3. Rector‘s order for recognized higher education acquired in a foreign higher education institution.
4. A copy of secondary education diploma, translated into Bulgarian.
5. A photocopy of a valid international passport or another identification document translated into Bulgarian. Applicants with dual citizenship, one of which being Bulgarian, must present the original and photocopies of their Bulgarian identity documents. In case of any differences concerning the name of the applicant in the Bulgarian and foreign identity documents he or she must present a notary certified declaration or another document for the identity of a person with two names.
6. Two passport size photos of the applicant.
7. A Bulgarian language certificate equivalent to level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) issued by a higher educational institution in the Republic of Bulgaria – only for candidates who will study in Bulgarian and will not undergo language and specialized training.
   * In the first year, foreign nationals with no command of Bulgarian take up a one-year preparatory course in language and specialized training at the Department of Language and Specialized Training of Foreign Students of Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv.
8. The foreign citizens who are admitted (as students) to the University may continue their studies in the first academic year of the chosen program after successfully passing the preparatory course examinations for language and specialized training in Bulgarian (and the specialized disciplines) equivalent to level B2 of the CEFR.
9. The tuition fees for international students are determined on an annual basis by a Council of Ministers Decree.