SELECT COLLEGE ADMISSION PROCEDURE

If you would like to apply for a program or wanted to learn more about admission to our face-to-face or Online programs, you need to contact our dedicated Admission Counselors who are always available to consult you with the best programs you need to apply in order to secure admission just after a single application and succeed in your academics once you are enrolled.

At Select College, we have a very simple, convenient and transparent admission policy and procedures in place to help applicants apply, register and enroll to the right program. In general, all applicants shall follow the following four Admission and Registration stages:

1. INITIAL APPLICATION STAGE

The First Step for all new applicants who would like to join any online program should be free consultation on the nature and requirements for our online program to be given by our Admission Counselor. The consultation may by online or in person at our college Online Program Campus head quarter. Those who satisfy minimum requirements to join the program will be required to complete the Online Initial Application Form by following the link here or clicking the LEARN ONLINE button located on the top right corner of the college website https://select.edu.et.

2. COMPUTER SKILL ASSESSMENT STAGE

All online program curriculum should also contain computer free skills assessment test to determine whether the applicant has the required the technological skills that are essential to be successful in their online studies. To access the tests, students must complete the initial application form. When they click the SUBMIT button, they will be automatically redirected to the to the computer skills assessment page where they take the test and get notified their results.

3. REGISTRATION STAGE

Those applicants who passed the computer skill assessment test (60% or more), will be referred to the Central office of Admission and Registrar for registration. The office of Registrar will then issues the selected applicants an official letter of Admission to their selected Online Program. The admission Letter shall contain credentials to login to the college Student’s information System (SIS) called MYPORTAL https://myportal.select.edu.et where students get registered, upload supporting documents, get course schedules, make payments, view grade reports , and download transcripts and other related tasks.

4. ENROLLMENT STAGE

After students get access to their username and password, they must pay the registration and tuition fees as indicated in their MYPORTAL account. When students fully paid off their prescribed tuition fees, the enrollment office shall assign him courses which the student has paid for, This process is called enrollment. At this point, students shall go to the college’s LMS portal also known as CLASSROOM and access their enrolled courses. Alternatively, students can also follow the link: https://classroom.select.edu.et/ to open the course portal.

Application

The minimum qualifications for admission to Bachelor’s and Master’s studies are set out in the Senate Legislation of Select College and FDRE MoE-HERQA guidelines.  However, we are not obliged to accept any prospective student who meets the minimum requirement as there may be other factors on the basis of which the prospective student cannot be accepted. Factors that will be considered before admitting the prospective student to register include, but are not limited to, the following: the prospective student’s academic record, the topic he or she wishes to research, the capacity and expertise to supervise the prospective student and possible limitations imposed by enrollment planning. Such factors will be indicated on the college websites.

Applications for admission are made online to all program Students within the prescribed dates. The prospective student must indicate his or her preferred focus area. Some colleges allow prospective students to suggest an alternate title or focus area if his or her interest is not covered in the list provided by the college.

The College’s Admission and Registrar office verifies the application for compliance with the formal requirements as communicated on the website and then refers the application to the academic department concerned for selection. The academic department considers the application, the prospective student’s academic record, his or her academic background, language competence, factors set out in supervisory capacity and other relevant matters and, recommends approval or rejection to the Office of Admission and Registrar with the reasons for the non-acceptance of an application in cases where a prospective student complies with the minimum requirements but is unacceptable to the academic department for academic or other reasons as set out in this article.

A student whose application is rejected has the right to appeal. An appeal against non-admission on academic grounds may be addressed to office of the registrar. The registrar then will refer it to the Dean of the relevant College, or to his or her nominee. If the appeal is rejected, such rejection must be substantiated and submitted to the registrar. The Registrar then communicates the outcome to the applicant, the college Dean and the academic department.

Registration

All students begin their study with a coursework; a candidate whose application for registration is accepted must register for at least one of the course and/or the research proposal module. Colleges may make recommendations in respect of the order in which candidates should register for the modules in the program, but a candidate must, if he or she wishes to do so, be able to complete the 30 credit hour or 60 ECTS qualification within one year as set out in the HERQA online Education guideline.

A candidate’s registration is not finalized before all the admission and registration processes have been completed and full payment of the fees prescribed for the relevant module(s) has been received. The prescribed registration and tuition fee is posted on the Office of Finance page.

A letter is issued by the Office of Admission and the Registrar to the candidate as soon as his or her registration is finalized. This stage is marked with the payment receipt. In the case of a candidate registered for a research proposal module or dissertation or thesis, the letter includes the working title or focus area and the name of the candidate’s supervisor. Copies of this letter are forwarded electronically to the Executive Dean, Chair of Department or designated contact person in the Department, the supervisor and co-supervisor (if applicable) and the College’s Library.

The Academic Counselor or his or her nominee informs the Chair of Department, who in turn informs the supervisor of the approval of a candidate’s (working) title. The supervisor will guide the candidate for the duration of his or her study period.

A candidate should establish contact with his or her supervisor as soon as possible either personally or by e-mail if a face-to-face meeting is not possible. Upon registration, a personal librarian will contact the candidate.

Candidates must apply annually for re-registration by the date published by the Registrar.

A candidate may not be supervised, or receive study guidance or library services during the period for which he or she has deferred his or her studies. The approved title for his or her thesis will be reserved during the period of deferment.

If a candidate does not register for a particular year(s) and did not obtain prior permission to defer his or her studies, the approved title of his or her projected dissertation or thesis will not necessarily be reserved for him or her and the year of interruption will count as one of the years allowed to complete the qualification in terms of the Admission Policy.

The normal rules regarding the cancellation or reduction of study units apply in respect of the coursework modules (for which fees are charged per module or paper) of candidates who are registered for the Master’s degree by coursework and thesis subject to any rules applicable to the specific degree.

Candidates who cancel their registration for a research proposal module or for a thesis remain liable for the full fees for the year for which they were registered. In exceptional cases the Executive Dean or his or her nominee may recommend cancellation with or without full refund to the College.

Course work

As soon as students are registered for coursework, they should be given username and password for their personalized Online Learning Management System (LMS) Portal known as MYCOURSE. You can access MYCOURSE site by clicking the ACCESS ONLINE COURSE button on the golden box located at the right side of this page. MYCOURSE is a site where students access their course content, video lectures, PowerPoint slides, text books, reference materials, assignments and solution for assignments, quizzes and feedback, Final examination both proctored and non proctored as well as their grades, badges and certificates. Students will get a fee detailed procedure on how to learn with Moodle classroom portal is given in the form of an orientation course for all first year students across the schools.

The Digital Library of Select College generates library membership ID for ever registered student and notifies them via email along with the detail procedures on how to freely access books and journals from the University Digital Library and other external resources and University’s journal subscriptions. To access the digital library site click the ACCESS DIGITAL LIBRARY button on the golden box located at the right side of this page. 

RESEARCH Thesis

After coursework is completed students are required to work on their thesis or dissertation. The details on the research proposal, thesis and dissertation standard, supervisors, co-supervisors, oral defense and research report evaluation is given on a separate document known as Premium College Research Guideline.

Graduation

After students successfully completed their studies according to the prescribed curriculum, the college registrar along with Program Counselors will make a list of graduating students. The Research supervisor must also submit the final electronic version of an accepted thesis or dissertation including the candidate’s statement and the abstracts. The PDF copy of the thesis or dissertation is archived in Select College’s  Institutional Repository as the final reviewed and approved thesis. The thesis  may be harvested from the Select College Institutional Repository by Academia or other research databases. The supervisor must therefore confirm that the version submitted is the final copy and no amendments will, after submission, be allowed to the final copy. Access may be restricted on the recommendation of the non-examining chairperson based on the examiners’ reports. Senior Essays of the undergraduate students will not be archived in the college’s Repository.

Graduation Ceremony

When it has received the examinations card from the College the Graduations Committee contacts the candidate in respect of the conferment of the degree. There will be annual graduation ceremony held at a location chosen by the Committee. It is not mandatory for students to participate in the graduation ceremony. A graduation bulletin could be published by the committee if graduating students organized themselves for this purpose and finance the project.