Studying abroad

Applying to a university abroad almost always starts with a package of translated documents: a school leaving certificate or a diploma with transcript (a list of completed courses and grades), a motivation letter and recommendation letters from teachers or employers. We collect and translate this package according to what the specific university requires — the list of documents and how they must be presented vary from one university to another.

A separate and important topic is nostrification — official recognition of a Russian qualification as equivalent to a local one. This is not the same as simply translating a diploma: nostrification is a separate procedure carried out through a specific university or an authorised body of the country, and it needs its own set of translated documents, often more complete than for a regular application.

For the Czech Republic, Poland and Spain — the countries we are actively expanding into — we take local requirements for nostrification and notarisation of education documents into account: in some places an apostille on the diploma is enough, in others a fuller package including a translation of the curriculum is needed.

An apostille on education documents is usually required as early as the application stage — we place it on the original or on the translation, depending on the requirements of the specific university.