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title: "Start of the 2026 Admissions Campaign: How to Submit Documents, Calculate Your Score, and Preserve Your Benefits"
description: "📚 From July 19, applications for bachelor's degrees are open via the ZNO portal! Find out how to correctly set priorities, calculate your competitive score, and not lose your benefits. ⏳ Applications open until August 1 — don't miss your chance!"
date: 2026-07-19T06:04:00.000Z
lang: en
url: https://xab.info/en/posts/start-of-the-2026-admissions-campaign-how-to-submit-documents-calculate-your-score-and-preserve-your-benefits
tags: [ukraine, edbo, nmt, lviv-polytechnic, times-higher-education]
publisher: "XAB.info"
---

# Start of the 2026 Admissions Campaign: How to Submit Documents, Calculate Your Score, and Preserve Your Benefits

![A group of students discussing study materials in front of a university building, illustrating the start of the 2026 admissions campaign.](https://xab.info/media/2026/07/19/start-vstupitelnoy-kampanii-2026-kak-podat-dokumenty-rasschitat-ball-i-ne-poteryat-lgoty/start-vstupitelnoy-kampanii-2026-kak-podat-dokumenty-rasschitat-ball-i-ne-poteryat-lgoty-1.webp)

On July 19, Ukraine officially opened the submission of applications for bachelor's degrees through the applicants' electronic cabinets on the ZNO portal. The process will last until 6:00 PM on August 1. This is a key event for thousands of schoolchildren planning to enroll in the country's universities.

### Strategy for Choosing Priorities

This year, applicants can submit up to 10 applications, no more than five of which can be for state-funded (budget) places. Success depends on the correct prioritization. Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine, Nikolai Trofimenko, emphasizes the importance of this stage: last year, 86% of students were admitted based on one of their top three priorities, and every three out of five freshmen were admitted based on their first choice.

### How the Competitive Score is Formed

The competitive score is not just the arithmetic mean of the ZNO results. It is a complex calculation based on a formula where each subject has its own "weight" depending on the specialty. Results are multiplied by special coefficients: for technical fields, mathematics is key; for humanities, it is the Ukrainian language and history; for medical fields, it is biology and chemistry. This is why applicants with identical ZNO results may receive different scores for different specialties.

You can preliminarily calculate your result on the website vstup.edbo.gov.ua, however, the final score is automatically determined by the ZNO system taking into account all components.

### Benefits and Quotas: Important Nuances

Applicants belonging to privileged categories participate in the competition under separate rules. Important: if at the time of submitting the application, the territorial community loses its status as an occupied territory or an area of active hostilities, the right to use quota-2 does not apply.

For other categories — participants of hostilities, children of ATO participants, IDPs, etc. — other mechanisms of state support apply. In particular, IDPs and children of participants of hostilities have the right to a social scholarship (upon admission to a state-funded place) and priority transfer to vacant state-funded places after the completion of the main stage of admission.

It is necessary to confirm the right to benefits before submitting the first application. If you are applying under quotas, make sure that the data regarding your privileged status is displayed in the electronic cabinet before pressing the "Submit Application" button.

### Interview Instead of ZNO

Instead of taking the ZNO, admission based on interview results is possible only for certain categories defined by law. The registration deadline for admission via interview for state-funded places has already expired (July 10). However, for those planning to enroll exclusively on a contract basis, the opportunity to register in the electronic cabinet remains open until 6:00 PM on July 25.

### Deadlines and Additional Intakes

After submitting applications, applicants should focus on the following deadlines. The admissions campaign continues until October 15, 2026. Higher education institutions may conduct additional intakes for contract places, independently determining the timing of their conduct.

### Ratings of Ukrainian Universities

Also read: in 2026, 22 Ukrainian universities entered the prestigious Times Higher Education World University Rankings — this is the best indicator in the entire history of Ukraine's participation. Previously, the twentieth annual academic rating "TOP-200 Ukraine 2026" was published. The leader became Lviv Polytechnic National University.