Now not only excellent students, but also good ones will be able to transfer from commerce to the budget. The new rules for changing the form of education were prescribed by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.

The process of transferring students from commercial departments to budget departments will now be carried out according to new uniform rules in all universities of the country. The corresponding order appeared on the website of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

According to the text of the document, in order to change the form of education, the student will have to study without triples for the last two semesters.

A good report card is the main condition for the transfer, but not the only one. Finally, the fate of a student applying for a transition to a free form of study will be decided by a commission specially created for this purpose.

“The decision to transfer a student from paid education to free education is made by a specially created commission, taking into account the opinion of the council of students of the educational organization (if any) and the council of parents (legal representatives) of minor students (if any, in relation to minor students),” the text of the document specifies .

As suggested in the university community, the competence of the commission will be the selection of the best in the presence of a large number of applicants in a limited number of budget places. Other things being equal, sporting achievements, social activity of candidates, as well as a banal advantage in the report card of one student over another can play a role. However, the main condition will remain the availability of free budget places, experts suggest.

Let us recall that earlier each higher education institution independently determined the procedure for transferring students from commerce to the budget. Each university set its own performance requirements for candidates for transfer and the terms during which it was necessary to show a certain result in the sessions. The candidate's social standing was also often taken into account. For example, if a student was in a difficult life situation (his family belonged to the category of low-income or lost the breadwinner, etc.) and showed good academic results, the transfer could be received faster. But still, the main criteria also remained the availability of free budget places.

“I transferred from commerce to the budget, while still studying at the Russian State University, at the beginning of the 2000s,” shares Natalya from Rostov. - Initially, I was just very unlucky when I entered and had to go into commerce. But I passed the first two sessions with excellent marks and wrote an application for a transfer. This process did not cause any difficulties. Perhaps because, in addition to academic performance, I also had an active life position - participation in university competitions and events. But, most importantly, I had no competitors when translating. Still, as a rule, weaker students study commerce and only a few apply for a transfer.

Whether the transfer procedure will now become easier for talented students, there is no forecast yet. However, a single order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation definitely clarified the situation by establishing uniform rules for all educational institutions, experts say. Now, in any case, every student studying commerce will clearly know that the absence of triples in the report card for the last two sessions give the right to apply for a budget place.

Question: Hello, Ekaterina Gennadievna! My name is Lilia Romanovna. I am the mother of Shigapova Nelli Marselevna, a 2nd year student of the Faculty of Philology, "Linguistics", "Foreign Languages" profile "Italian Language".
Question: Is it possible to transfer my daughter from paid to budget? If I am an old-age pensioner, I do not work for health reasons, I receive a pension of 10,000 rubles plus 1,000 rubles. for a child, my husband's salary is 20,000 rubles, on the next. the year goes to retire, and my mother's pension is 10 00 rubles, the daughter does not work, because. studying in the daytime department. As a result, on average, it turns out 40-45 thousand, sometimes they rarely give the husband a bonus.
My daughter passed the exams and tests all three semesters for "4" and "5", but so far the translation is not working. We have run out of all the reserves of money, and there is no one to borrow from. The daughter always studied perfectly well, they expected that she would go to the budget. Is it possible to transfer it to the budget as a poor person? If so, what documents to apply and when? Thank you.

Response of Ekaterina Gennadievna Babelyuk, First Vice-Rector for Academic, Extracurricular and Teaching and Methodological Work of St. Petersburg State University

In accordance with paragraph 7.2.8 of the "Rules of Education for the Basic Educational Programs of Bachelor's, Specialist's, Master's and Secondary Vocational Education at St. Petersburg State University, approved by the order of the First Vice-Rector for Academic, Extracurricular and Educational-Methodological Work dated January 29, 2016 No. 470 / 1 ", the following students can apply for transfer from places with payment of tuition fees to places financed from the budgetary allocations of the federal budget:

• students who passed exams in the last two semesters of study preceding the application, for grades "excellent" or "excellent" and "good" or "good";
• orphans, children left without parental care, persons from among orphans and children left without parental care;
• citizens under the age of twenty who have only one parent - a disabled person of group I, if the average per capita income of the family is below the subsistence level established in the corresponding subject of the Russian Federation;
• students who have lost one or both parents (legal representatives) or a single parent (legal representative) during the period of study.

According to paragraph 7.1.3 of the rules of study, the transfer and restoration of students is carried out on a competitive basis if there are vacancies.

Information on the number of vacancies is published on the SPbU official portal no later than the working day preceding the day of the meeting of the commission for accepting documents for the purpose of making transfers and reinstatements in the relevant direction.

The next meeting of the Central Commission for Translations and Restorations will be held on February 10, 2017 before the start of the spring academic semester of the 2016/2017 academic year. Documents are accepted from 12/12/2016 to 01/30/2017 (inclusive). Documents can be transferred to members of the commission for receiving documents in the relevant direction, or in electronic form through the "Personal Account".

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If the applicant does not qualify for a state-funded place, but passes through the general competition, then he is invited to conclude an agreement under which he is admitted to study on a commercial basis. That is, the student will be obliged, before the date determined by the university or faculty, to timely pay the amount of money determined by the agreement for each semester of study through the cash desks of the educational institution. That would seem to be all - a person will be doomed to pay for his studies until the defense of his diploma. However, this is not quite true. There are ways to solve this problem. The question of how to transfer from paid to budget should be asked starting from the very first semester. In most universities, the transfer mechanism has been worked out for many years.

Paid education at the university is based on a contractual basis, therefore, when transferring to the budget, the agreement on the provision of paid educational services is firstly terminated. The main criterion for transferring a student to the budget is his academic performance. First of all, these are marks for the time of the credit and examination sessions. Intermediate progress has practically no effect on the change in the status of the "payer". In order to have a chance to switch to a free basis, the first session must be unequivocally passed without "satisfactory" marks - only "good" and "excellent". It is advisable to give everything to the maximum, because the higher the grades, the more in the eyes of the dean's office of his faculty the student deserves not to pay for education.

In some educational institutions, it is possible to transfer to a budgetary department after the first session passed with positive marks. This usually happens if some students studying on a free basis were not able to complete all exams and tests, and ended up on the list for expulsion. Instead of those who were eventually removed from the university, by the decision of the dean's office, persons who showed themselves best during the examination and test sessions will be transferred to their places. That is, at the beginning of the second semester, such students will be called to the dean's office to terminate the contract and apply for a scholarship. All this will be formalized by a special order for the faculty, which is confirmed by the seal of the university and the signature of its head - the rector.

But not always the transfer is carried out after the first semester. It is possible that you will have to work hard at the summer examination session, and tuition fees at this point will still have to be done on time. If the passing of exams in the summer, just like in the winter, was successful, then from the new academic year the dean's office of the faculty does not have the right to refuse an excellent student or a good student in the transition to free education. If, nevertheless, the second session did not go as we would like, then you can try to correct the situation and try to retake the unsuccessful subject. To do this, you must submit an application to the dean's office and agree with a specific teacher on the retake. Most often, they go to meet such students.

If, nevertheless, it was not possible to correct satisfactory scores and achieve a positive result right away, then you will have to strain in the second and subsequent courses. If a student has a strong desire to overcome his status as a "payer", then sooner or later he will still succeed. Seeing such a student's zeal, many university staff will meet him halfway and give certain concessions in exams. In general, good relations with teachers and active participation in the public life of the university will also be an excellent help to achieve this goal. Education on a free basis is a thing quite affordable for a student who wants to really get to it. Responsible work during the semester, as well as decent answers in exams are the key to success.

The number of free places in educational institutions is usually limited. However, contract students, under certain conditions, can count on a transfer from paid education to the budget.

Almost every student who did not have enough state-funded places when entering an educational institution wants to switch to a free department. But not everyone, even after studying for a certain time on a contract, knows how to transfer to the budget from paid education. At the legislative level, the change in the form of study is regulated by the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation of 06.06.2013 No. 433, which describes in detail the transfer procedure.

Transition conditions

Legislation generally provides for the right of a student to change the commercial form of education to a budget one. However, the specific conditions of the procedure are established by the rules of the university.

Transfer from paid education to the budget is often carried out subject to a number of requirements:

• absence of academic debts of the student-contract worker;
• discipline, diligent attendance;
• timely payment for contract training;
• availability of places in the required specialty and corresponding course.

The number of vacancies is determined by a special algorithm for calculating the ratio of commercial and free places in each specialty. It takes into account the number of people admitted to study in a particular year and the actual number of students at the current moment. Recalculations are carried out twice a year at the end of each semester, the data obtained are necessarily posted in the media or on the website of the institution.

Important! Students who have completed the last two sessions, having received high scores (excellent and good) in all subjects, can count on a transfer, while there should not be more than 25% of fours.

The procedure for transferring to the budget

Often students ask themselves whether it is possible to transfer from a paid to a budget immediately after entering a university. This cannot be done. To qualify for the transfer, you must study a certain amount of time, the duration of which the university sets independently, but not less than two semesters. During this period, teachers have the opportunity to assess the student's abilities, his attitude to study and other merits in order to determine whether there are grounds for transferring him to the budget.

If the period established by the university is observed, then within thirty days after the appearance of data on the availability of vacancies, the student-contractor must submit to the dean's office:

Important! In most institutions there is such a thing as a special basis, which is the reason for transferring a student to budget education. They may be unable to pay under the contract due to the death of one of the parents, the need for expensive treatment, the loss of a job, etc.

Employees of the dean's office will check the information submitted by the applicant and transfer the documentation to a special commission. If the request is granted, the transfer will be confirmed by the order of the rector, which is issued within ten calendar days from the date of the decision.

Preferential categories

• orphans and children without parental care;
• students under the age of twenty from low-income families who have a disabled parent of the first group;
• students from families with income per member below the regional subsistence level;
• students who lost both parents (guardians) in the process of studying.

Important! If a student becomes unable to pay for tuition due to financial difficulties, then he has the legal right to apply for a transfer.

Transfer from paid to budget to another university

According to the law, you can change the form of education not only within the institution, but also by moving to another university. The mechanism of the procedure is prescribed in general, but each institution has its own rules for transferring to the budget. In this case, you need to:

• Find out about the availability of budget places in the institution where the transfer is planned. By law, if there are such places, the university does not have the right to refuse to consider the application. However, one should not apply for a solution to the selection committee, but to a higher level, for example, to the rector of an educational institution. Most often, the final resolution is made by the Academic Council.
• After that, the student submits an application for transfer to the budget according to the example provided by the department.
• Some institutions require the student to pass certain certification tests. At the same time, it is necessary to pay off the existing academic debts that may arise due to the difference in curricula.
• If the student passes all the "tests", he is issued a certificate of enrollment in a new educational institution. With the received document, he returns to the previous university and writes an application for expulsion, submits a record book and a student ID card, receives a certificate of secondary education and an academic certificate with information about all exams and tests passed.

Important! If the number of students applying for free education is greater than the number of available places, then the academic council has the right to select applicants based on the results of the competition.

If you failed to enter a place paid by the state, do not rush to get upset, since the transition to the budget is a real and feasible task. All that is needed is to show your best side in the learning process and actively participate in the social activities of the educational institution.

The procedure and conditions for the transfer are regulated by the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation of 06.06.2013 No. 433.

The most important condition for the transfer is the availability of a free budgetary place in the relevant field of study and form of study in the desired course. A vacancy can appear at any time of the academic year: someone has expelled, transferred to another faculty or to a correspondence course. Accordingly, you should constantly monitor the situation with budget places: the dean's office should provide the information you are interested in. Unfortunately, students are not always informed in a timely manner, but it is possible to monitor the number of free places on the official website of the university.

Other conditions for applying for a transfer are that the student does not have current academic debts, disciplinary sanctions, and tuition debts.

Who can apply for a budget place

According to the order of the Ministry of Education, the following have the right to transfer:

1. Students who have passed at least two sessions in a row with "excellent" or "good" and "excellent". However, at least 75% of the total number of grades (including grades for term papers and practice) should be fives in the record of good students. In different universities, the required period of study without triples may differ, but does not exceed four sessions in a row. A single “satisfactory” rating will make it impossible for you to apply for a transfer to the budget. Therefore, it makes sense to ask the teacher to put “failed”, and then retake this exam. All "tails" applying for a transfer must be eliminated as quickly as possible.
2. Orphans and children left without parental care.
3. Citizens of the Russian Federation under the age of twenty who have only one parent - a disabled person of group I, if the average per capita total family income is below the subsistence level established in the corresponding subject of the Russian Federation. This item can also help those students who apply for a budget place based on good academic performance. A certificate from social security will be a bonus that can resolve the issue in your favor.
4. Students who have lost one or both parents (legal representatives) or a single parent (legal representative) during the period of study.

Package of documents

In order to enter your candidacy into the list of applicants for a budgetary place, you need to:

− submit a corresponding application to the dean's office;

− confirm the right to transfer. An excellent student or a good student needs to make a photocopy of the grade book and certify it in the dean's office (there must be a seal of the educational institution and the signature of the dean); for those who have lost a parent or the poor - relevant certificates and documents from social security;

- prepare documents confirming special achievements in educational, research, social, cultural, creative and sports activities of an educational organization (diplomas, certificates, thanks - if any);

- a characteristic, which is compiled by the dean or his deputy for educational work, the curator of the group;

Transfer commission

A special commission that decides the fate of students usually meets twice a year. Most often this happens in August-September and February-March - following the results of examination sessions. It is better to check the exact date in the dean's office or on the website.

For applicants for the budget, this is a very important point, since the collection and signing of the necessary documents takes some time. It is better to start collecting certificates from social security a few months before the date of delivery. If you miss the time when the commission met or do not have time to submit all the documents, you will have to wait another six months, which means paying for another semester.

If there are more applicants than there are vacancies, the transfer commission may appoint additional tests in the form of an exam or distribute the available places in accordance with the submitted documents. According to the law, priority is given first of all to excellent students, then to orphans and students with only one parent - a disabled person of group I.

Under any equal conditions, preference is given to students with the best academic performance.

How to return money after transfer

If you managed to pay for the next year or semester of study, and after that you were transferred to the budget, you can get your money back.

To return the funds, it will be necessary to write an appropriate application based on the transfer to the budgetary basis of education, indicating the current account. If the year or semester has not yet started (you paid in advance or switched to a budget during the holidays), then the money will be returned in full. If the commission was collected during the educational process, then a recalculation will be made. For example, if the order to transfer a student was signed on April 11, then the funds will be returned only for the period of part of April and until the end of the academic year.