The basic condition for admission to the bachelor study is a completed secondary education, or a completed secondary vocational education with the secondary school leaving exams ("maturita exam"). Other requirements are determined by the faculty which offers the given study programme. The requirements, however, must not exceed the educational content of a complete secondary education.

Admission requirements as well as the deadline for the acceptance of application forms, the date and way of the verification of requirements, the form and overall content of the exam, including the evaluation of its results, are published on the faculty or university official notice board and on the internet by each faculty not later than two months prior to the last day of the period intended for the submission of application forms.

Drawing on the above facts, faculties determine subjects of the admission exam, criteria of its evaluation, the way of incorporating maturity exam results, as well as the way of recognizing the results of state language exams.

The detailed information for applicants is available on the university web page http://www.uniag.sk. (Possibilities of study at SAU in Nitra for academic year 2006/2007). After receiving the decision of admission to the study, the applicant is entitled to enrol for the study. The date, venue and manner of enrolment will be determined and announced in writing by the faculty which provides the given study program.

The organization of the academic year, organisation of education as well as other facts related to the study and its regular completion are given in the SAU System of Study (articles 11 - 28).

Study Programme
Each study programme includes a standard study plan. The student's study plan gives a temporary and content sequence of a study programme's units (subjects) and forms of the evaluation of study results. A study plan is created by the student himself/herself or in cooperation with a study consultant, within determined rules of a particular study programme and in agreement with the SUA or a faculty Study Guide.
Study subjects are categorized as follows:

Compulsory subjects are determined according to the requirements stated in a graduate's study programme profile. Compulsory upon selection subjects represent alternative offer, resulting from a student's orientation on certain study field. To achieve a required number of credits, a student can choose any optional subject from the SUA's Catalogue of subjects for a particular academic year.
An inseparable part of a study programme is practice. Student can do it in the University Agricultural Enterprise, in the SUA botanic garden and in other enterprises (banks, insurance companies, etc.) in Slovakia or abroad, based on a particular study programme.

Credit System
A study at SUA is organized according to a flexible system with the credit evaluation of subjects based on the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) rules.

The credit system enable students to choose an individual tempo and place of study (university, faculty) and thus to harmonise the study demands with one's own individual abilities and possibilities, as well as with the educational institution's requirements.

A student gains credits for the passing of subjects of a study programme, including a vocational practice and a final thesis. The standard number of credits for one academic year within a standard length of a study is 60, 30 for each semester. To properly finish the study in a bachelor study programme, within its standard 3-year length of study, a student must acquire 180 credits. To finish a master study programme within its standard 2-year length of study, a student must acquire 120 credits.

Completion of Study
A study programme of each level is completed by passing state exams, including the final thesis defence. Upon the completion of their study, the SUA graduates are awarded the following documents: diploma, state exam certificate, and diploma supplement.