A ranking is made of the applicants according to the total number of points earned from the qualification examination and their overall success during all four years of secondary school. Foreign citizens have the same enrollment prerequisites as domestic citizens, although when applying for the competition they must also submit a validated secondary school diploma. Foreign citizens must also learn to speak the Serbian language before they enroll, and present a certificate to this effect from an authorized faculty commission. Foreign students pay tuition. Regular examination periods at all faculties of the University of Belgrade are held in June, September, October and January.
Most faculties also have additional exam periods.
The prerequisite for proceeding to the next year of study is to have successfully passed a predetermined number of exams from the previous year. This number depends on how many subjects are included in the course of study for any given year of study, and as a rule covers about onethird of the subjects. Most faculties have a final examination.