The General Nursing programme provides you with a practically oriented bachelor's education for subsequent practice of the health profession without professional supervision. The study programme is designed in accordance with Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the recognition of professional qualifications in the provision of services and provides you as a graduate with the basic prerequisites to practice a regulated profession in the European Union.

Applications should only be submitted electronically via the e-application application. The admission fee is 650,- CZK and must be paid no later than the closing date for applications of the given round (if you do not enrol, the fee will not be refunded). Further payment instructions (account number, variable symbol) find in the online application. The fee must be paid again for each round of admissions.

Applications in the 2nd and 3rd supplementary rounds will be allowed only if the number of admitted candidates is not already filled in the 1st basic round of admissions. 

Are you already interested in what subjects you will study?

A list of the courses you will take during your studies can be found in the Curriculum tab below on this page. The full-time study also includes a long-term internship (46 weeks). 

General Nursing - full-time study

Conditions for admission to study are:

• achievement of secondary education with a school-leaving examination (successful completion of the school-leaving examination at secondary school),
• eligibility to study as demonstrated in the entrance examination (knowledge in the scope of secondary school):
• PC test in professional subjects (human biology, psychology) and general study prerequisites (max. 50 points),
• oral interview - verification of the applicant's knowledge of human biology and motivation (max. 50 points),
• confirmation of medical fitness to study the General Nursing degree programme.
  
  
• Acceptance of applicants for study who are foreign nationals (except for Slovak nationals) is also subject to proof of knowledge of the Czech language. This proficiency can be demonstrated by a school-leaving exam in the Czech language (successful completion of the school-leaving exam at a Czech secondary school) or by an oral interview at the entrance exam (understanding of the spoken word, ability to interact, and talking about the motivation, expectations and immediate needs of the applicant). 
  
  

General Nursing - Combined Studies

Conditions for admission to study are:

• achievement of secondary education with a school-leaving examination (successful completion of the school-leaving examination at secondary school),
• eligibility to study as demonstrated in the entrance examination (knowledge in the scope of secondary school):
• PC test in professional subjects (human biology, psychology) and general study prerequisites (max. 50 points),
• oral interview - verification of the applicant's knowledge of human biology and motivation (max. 50 points),
• confirmation of medical fitness to study the General Nursing programme,
• work experience relevant to the General Nursing programme of at least two years.
• Acceptance of applicants who are foreign nationals (except Slovak nationals) is also subject to proof of knowledge of the Czech language. This proficiency can be demonstrated by a Czech language school-leaving exam (successful completion of the Czech secondary school leaving exam) or by an oral interview at the entrance exam (understanding of the spoken word, ability to interact, and talking about the motivation, expectations and immediate needs of the student).

For the full text of the College of Polytechnics Jihlava admission requirements for the 2025/2026 academic year, please see HERE.

For more information on the Czech language exam, including exam dates, please visit HERE.

The admission procedure for the academic year 2025/2026 again includes the possibility of EXEMPTING applicants in difficult social situations FROM THE FEE for the acts related to the admission procedure. No fee will be charged to an applicant who meets the following conditions:

• he/she applies to study in a bachelor's or master's degree programme no later than 14 May 2025,
• he/she is not a graduate of the same type of degree programme (written affidavit),
• he/she proves that he/she is in a difficult social situation (written certificate issued at his/her request by the state social assistance body proving that the family income ascertained for the purposes of the child benefit for the third calendar quarter of 2023 did not exceed the product of the family's subsistence minimum and a coefficient of 1.5),
• he/she requests that he/she be exempted from the fee no later than 9 April 2025.

An application for exemption from the fee is available HERE; a sample affidavit is available HERE.

Further information on the admission procedure:

• Applicants get points from a PC-based test in professional subjects (human biology, psychology) and general academic prerequisites, which consists of 50 questions with three answer choices, only one of which is correct, the fourth answer choice is the don't know/won't answer option.
• For the PC-based test, a correct answer is scored 1 point, a wrong answer and a don't know/won't answer answer is scored 0 points, i.e. the maximum you can score on the test is 50 points.
• The scope, depth and level of knowledge required in the tests are based on the material covered in secondary school leaving examinations (for an idea of how the tests are designed, see samples of tests from previous entrance examinations).
• There is a time limit of 45 minutes to process the test on a PC, and the oral exam is limited to a maximum of 15 minutes.
• The criterion for demonstrating eligibility to study is the achievement of a score in the admissions procedure that places the applicant in the order of the expected number of students to be admitted so that the total number of students enrolled in the study programme is 169.
  
• School-leaving Certificate/Certificate of Recognition, a medical certificate of medical fitness issued by a general practitioner on a recommended form (available for download in the e-application form after payment of the admission fee), and certification of experience corresponding to the General Nursing programme (the combined form of study only) of at least two years (experience completed as part of studies at a secondary school or higher education institution cannot be accepted) must be submitted in one of the following ways:
  
• online (uploading via a personal folder in the e-application) - only authorized document conversion (provided by Czech POINT branches) - other electronic versions of the document, e.g. a simple scan, will not be accepted
• by post to the study department (officially certified copy)
• in person at the study department (certified copy)
• School-leaving certificate/certification of recognition must be delivered by 9/9/2025 (in case of non-delivery by the deadline, the candidate will not be admitted to study).
• Medical certificate of medical fitness must be delivered according to the dates of the individual rounds of the admission procedure AR 2025/2026 (in case of failure to deliver it by the deadline, the applicant will not be admitted to study) - the form is available for download in the e-application after payment of the fee for the actions related to the admission procedure.
• In the case of the combined form of study, certification of experience corresponding to the General Nursing programme of at least two years (experience completed as part of studies at a secondary school or higher education institution cannot be accepted) must be delivered according to the deadlines of the individual rounds of the admission procedure for the academic year 2025/2026 (in the case of failure to deliver by the deadline, the applicant will not be admitted to study).
• Proof of hepatitis B vaccination shall be provided to the tutor of the practical placement after the start of the course (a copy of the vaccination certificate is sufficient).
• Admission exams are held in the school building at Tolstého 16, Jihlava, and you must have your ID (ID card or passport) with you.

Where can I find the results of the admission procedure?

Summary admission results can be found HERE.

Your further questions can be answered at the Study Department, tel. 567 141 181 or e-mail: studijni@vspj.cz

The entrance examination for the study programme General Nursing consists of a PC-based test in professional subjects (human biology, psychology) and general study prerequisites and an oral examination in human biology. On this page you will find sample test from professional subjects and general study prerequisites and also test evaluation of the entrance examination.

• Full-time study
• Combined studies