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ECTS

European Credit Transfer System

ECTS, the European Community Courses Credit Transfer System, was founded by the Commission of the European Community in order to provide common procedures to guarantee academic recognition of studies abroad. It provides a way of measuring and comparing learning achievements, and transferring them from one institution to another.

The ECTS system is based on the principle of mutual trust and confidence between the participating higher education institutions. The few rules of ECTS, concerning Information (on courses available), Agreement (between the home and host institutions) and the use of Credit Points (to indicate student workload) are set out to reinforce this mutual trust and confidence. Each ECTS department provides information about the courses it offers not only in terms of content but also by assigning credits to each course.

ECTS credits are a numerical value allocated to course units to measure the student workload required to complete them. They reflect the quantity of work which each course unit requires in relation to the total quantity of work necessary to complete a full year of academic study at the institution. This includes lectures, practical work, tutorials, field work, private work - in the library or at home - and examinations or other assessment activities. ECTS credits reflect a relative value of student workload. In ECTS, 60 credits represent the workload of an academic year of study and usually 30 credits are given for a semester (6 months). It is important that no special courses are set up for ECTS purposes, but that all ECTS courses are mainstream courses of the participating institutions, as followed by home students under normal regulations.

It is up to the participating institutions to subdivide the credits for the different courses. Laboratory work and optional courses which form an integral part of the course of study also count as academic credit. Laboratory sessions and optional courses which do not form an integral part of the course of study do not count as academic credit. Courses which are not officially assigned credits can still be included in the student’s transcript of records.

Credits are awarded only if the courses have been completed and all required examinations have been successfully taken.

ECTS and the Chemnitz University of Technology

The information package (PDF, about 2MB) describes the Chemnitz University of Technology and the courses offered by its Department of Electrical Engineering & Information Technology in order to help the prospective ECTS student to prepare for his/her study period in this institution.