Funding a degree in Czech Republic
What actually exists here, what you can apply for, and where people most often get it wrong.
Send your transcript or degree, your average grade and your language level — we will say which programmes are realistic and which are not.
Why Czechia is worth considering
Charles University states it plainly: study in Czech is free of charge, with a fee arising only if a student exceeds the standard duration of study by more than one year. The key point is that this applies to all nationalities, not only EU citizens, because it flows from the law rather than from resident status.
English-taught programmes are paid, and the range is enormous — from token amounts up to medicine at the top end. Check the figure on the specific programme's page: there is no meaningful national average here, and aggregator numbers diverge sharply.
Where "free study in Czechia" is usually mis-sold
Free study means study in Czech. That means passing an entrance examination in Czech, which in practice almost always requires a paid one-year preparatory language course first. So "free" applies to the degree itself, not to the road that gets you there.
Czechia does have a government scholarship — Government Scholarships for Developing Countries, run by the Ministry of Education (MŠMT) — but it covers master's and doctoral study and is open only to citizens of specific countries on an approved list. Russia is not on that list.
Deadlines and amounts change from one intake to the next, and we do not publish the ones we cannot confirm. Look them up on the programme's official site — we will help you check the requirements and put the application together for your profile.
Finding your scholarships in Czech Republic
We go through your profile, find the programmes you qualify for and build the application plan. The price for this destination is quoted once we understand the scope.
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