The first cycle of studies can be academic studies of three or four years through which the students gain 180 or 240 ECTS. After finishing a first cycle of studies with 240 ECTS, the student acquires an academic diploma with the appropriate title of the studied profession, and the international title used for finished first cycle of studies which is baccalaureus or baccalaurea.
The first cycle of studies can also be specialist studies with the acquirement of 180 ECTS. After finishing this type fo studies, the student acquires a specialist title for the appropriate profession.
The second cycle of academic studies last from one to two years, and the students acquire 60 or 120 ECTS. After finishing the second cycle of studies, students acquire the scientific title internationally accepted as master (MA).
At the University the third cycle of studies or the PhD studies are conducted with the duration of minimum three years or 180 ECTS. After the studies are finished, the student acquires the scientific title of doctor of Philosophy or PhD.
The University “Goce Delcev” started with the introduction of distance learning with the Microsoft Teams platform in 2019.
Untill march 2020 more than 4.400 students and 360 lecturers have continuously used the tools of Microsoft 365 to acess, study and share contents, and most of the faculties have used it simultaneously
with their face-to-face lessons. Nowadays, online lectures, exams and midterm exams are sucessfully conducted through the services of Microsoft Teams.
In this way the Goce Delcev Univeristy has become the first university in North Macedonia with a high application of digital tools and technologies that are being actively used in the teaching process and the educational process. Moreover, this platform has been used to conduct 11.000 online lectures, 100.000 lessons with audio instruction and 50.000 lessons with video instruction.