In order to qualify for an LL.M degree in International Business Law and Comparative Constitutional Law, students have to complete 24 course (class) credits and satisfy the thesis requirements.
The Economics and Legal Studies Program requires the completion of a minimum of 26 course credits and the submission of a M.A./LL.M thesis. Students are tot ake a minimum of 14 credits from the Economics Department and 12 credits from Legal Studies Department.
Human Rights M.A. students have to satisfy 40 New York M.A. credits which at Legal Studies Department amounts to 28 class credits and a master's thesis.
Human Rights LL.M students have to satisfy 28 class credits and submit a master's thesis.
1 Legal Studies Credit is equivalent to 1 ABA (and New York) approved credit (14 x 50 class minutes).

Class attendance
Regular class attendance is a precondition of taking exams. Students who miss more than one 100-minute class session per credit without justification may be excluded from the course by the instructor or by the program chair.
Persistent violation of this policy may lead to exclusion from CEU (see also: http://www.ceu.hu/downloads/studrights.doc). All due explanation of justified absence is to be submitted to the Legal Studies Department coordinator at the earliest possible time, via telephone, email, or in person.

Auditing courses
If a student wants to officially register for a class without earning a letter grade or credit, the course may be registered for as audit. A student auditing a course will be required to attend all classes and participate fully in the course (including reading, oral and written assignments). Auditing students are only excused from taking the final exam. Upon completion of an auditing course, students are responsible to obtain the instructor's signed approval indicating satisfactory class attendance and participation.
A course scheduled for audit will appear on the student's transcript with the symbol AUD if attendance was regular or W if attendance was unsatisfactory. In the case of AUD, no credit is earned, nor is the GPA affected. Changes from regular registration to audit, or vice versa, can only be made within the drop date period for the course (See Course Registration).

Cross listing courses
Cross-listed courses are those courses taken outside of one's program (IBL, HR LLM, HR MA or CCL). Students may take up to two (2) "cross-listed" courses for grade in compliance with the course and credit requirements of the students' respective program. Audited courses do not count to this limit. Cross-listed courses taken for grade in excess of the 2-credit limit will be automatically changed to audit at the end of the academic year.
In case of significant academic interest students may get permission from their respective program chair to obtain credits for cross-listed courses in excess of the above limitation.
For further information, please see the special programs coordinator. Students are responsible to make sure that the cross-listed courses do not overlap with the courses chosen from their own program so that regular class attendance is guaranteed. If the student misses more than one class meeting of either course, the procedure stated under "Class Attendance" applies. Note that the department is not in position to take into consideration cross-listed courses when making occasional unavoidable revisions to the schedule during a module.
All the cross-listed courses will have to be reported to the Legal Studies Department. The report and the request for approval shall be submitted on the cross-listed form. Students may obtain one credit from a cross-listed course without the permission of the Program Chair. Further cross-listed courses including audited courses may only be taken upon the prior approval of the program chair. Upon signature, completed forms shall be returned to the special programs coordinator.
Note that cross-listed courses offered by other departments are credited according to the internal rules of the Legal Studies Department, upon approval of the program chair concerned. One Legal Studies Department credit corresponds to 14 class hours, i.e. a total of 700 class minutes, while one credit earned from any other CEU department is equivalent to 600 class minutes.