About Ukompas

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Why Ukompas exists

Choosing the right field is hard: in Czechia, nearly 60 percent of bachelor's students don't finish their degree (Czech Ministry of Education data, STATIS 2024). University choices are often driven by rankings, grades or other people's expectations rather than what the student actually enjoys.

Ukompas starts with interests: first you find out what you enjoy, then we show you the fields and universities that fit.

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How the test works

• It's based on Holland's RIASEC theory of interests, with six types: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising and Conventional.
• The questions are adapted from the O*NET® Interest Profiler (U.S. Department of Labor) under the O*NET Tools Developer License. See Modifications and disclaimers below for details.
• The test is adaptive: it asks more where your profile is still uncertain and stops once the order of your types is stable.
• Fields are grouped into 13 study areas. A field's interest profile is the average of its typical occupations in the O*NET database, and an area fits you as well as its field that fits you best. The profiles are a first draft and will be refined with pilot data.

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What the match percentage means

The match is only about interests: how closely your profile resembles a field's. It isn't your chance of admission, a prediction of your grades or of how well you'll do, and it says nothing about the quality of a school.

How we calculate it:

• We compare the shape of your profile with the field's: which interest types are above your own average and which are below it. At 100% both profiles have the same shape; at 0% they have nothing in common or are opposite.
• It doesn't matter whether you enjoy almost everything or hardly anything. What counts is what you enjoy more and what less.
• Fields built mainly on the Investigative or Artistic type get a 15% lower match if you score under 50 out of 100 in that type.
• The questions about specific fields at the end of the test move a field's match by at most 10 points up or down.
• An area has the match of its field that suits you best. Programmes that belong to several fields are sorted by your match with those fields, weighted by how much of the programme each one makes up.

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Where the programme data comes from

• Universities, faculties and study programmes come from the official registers: the MŠMT register for Czechia and Portál VŠ for Slovakia. Every list of programmes says the date the data is valid for.
• Each programme links to the university's website and to its official record: for Slovak programmes their page on Portál VŠ, for Czech ones the search of the MŠMT register, which has no page per programme.
• The registers list accredited programmes. A programme can be accredited and still not open in a given year, or open in only some study forms, so always check the application deadline and admission requirements on the faculty's website.
• Application dates, the kind of admission, fees, last year's numbers of applicants and the application links of Czech programmes come from the Czech education ministry's Studuj na VŠ portal (shown with the data as “the Czech ministry's portal for applicants”); where it has no date, from the faculties' own pages. For Slovak programmes the dates come from Portál VŠ (“Termíny”) and the faculties' own pages. Each fact shows the date we checked it.
• For some universities (so far VŠE in Prague) we also have a profile: a short description of the university, its faculties and programmes, each faculty's admission conditions, open days, halls of residence and their prices, accreditations and rankings. We write the descriptions in our own words from the official pages and never copy them, and every fact carries its source and the date we checked it. Faculties usually publish next year's conditions in November; until then we show them as last year's.
• In October 2026 we compared 100 randomly chosen programmes with the current registers and with the Czech education ministry's Studuj na VŠ portal.
• If you find a mistake, click “Report wrong data” on the programme or write to contact@ukompas.eu. We check it against the official source and fix it.

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Tuition

The registers don't list tuition fees, so each programme says one of the following:

• “No tuition fee”: a public or state university (military, police, health care) teaching only in the national language (in Slovakia also only full-time). By law such study is free for the standard length of study, in Czechia plus one year (section 58 of Czech Act No. 111/1998 Coll.; section 96 of Slovak Act No. 300/2025 Coll. on higher education, in force since 1 September 2026). The Slovak act says so for state universities too; the fees of Czech state universities are set by the Ministry of Defence or the Interior, and the ministry's portal Study in Czechia says study in Czech is free there as well. An application fee, a fee for studying longer than the law allows and, in Slovakia, a fee for a second programme at the same level studied at the same time may still apply.
• “No tuition fee only in Czech” or “only full-time in Slovak”: the programme is also taught in another language or form, and those may charge.
• “€X / year”: a fee we know from an official source, with the date it was checked. No programme has one yet.
• “Tuition not listed”: we don't know the fee, for example at a private university or for study in a foreign language, where tuition is usually charged. An unknown fee is never shown as zero, and the “No tuition fee only” filter leaves it out.
• As a rough guide from the official portals: in Czechia, study in a foreign language mostly costs €0 to €6,000 a year, and medicine, arts and some specialised fields €8,000 to €25,000 (Study in Czechia); in Slovakia €0 to €13,000 a year (SAIA), and more for medicine. The school publishes the exact fee for the next year on its website: in Czechia by the last day for applications, in Slovakia at least two months before it.
• “Not stated” in the comparison means the register has no value.

Tuition, admission and residence in detail: Studying in Czechia and Slovakia →

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What Ukompas is not

It isn't an aptitude test or a prediction of admission success. It's a starting point for a conversation with yourself, your parents or your school counsellor.

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Who's behind Ukompas

Ukompas is made by Peter Luca and Jiří "Jerry" Calda. It isn't a company yet, just a project run by the two of them.

Contact: contact@ukompas.eu

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Modifications and disclaimers (O*NET)

The interest questions are adapted from the O*NET® Interest Profiler by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA) and used under the O*NET Tools Developer License. The disclaimer is below.

What we changed:

• We rewrote the activities for secondary school students in Czechia and Slovakia, for example drones, 3D printing or running an online shop, and translated them into Slovak and Czech.
• Answers use a five-point scale from “Not at all” to “A lot” for the question “How much would you enjoy…”.
• The test is adaptive, so not everyone gets every question. Each type's score is the mean of the questions answered, and the test stops once the order of your types is stable.
• The 72 further questions that tell fields apart are our own and do not come from O*NET.
• Results are matched to university fields in Czechia and Slovakia, not to O*NET occupations. The field profiles are computed from the interest profiles of occupations in the O*NET 31.0 Database (CC BY 4.0 license).

This page includes information from the O*NET Career Exploration Tools by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the O*NET Tools Developer License. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. Ukompas has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.

Ukompas has modified all of, a portion of, or the purpose of the O*NET® Career Exploration Tools. The U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA) has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. As such, USDOL/ETA will not be liable to any third party or end-user for any damages arising out of or from the use or misuse of the modified O*NET Career Exploration Tools or any products incorporating or containing the modified O*NET Career Exploration Tools.

This page includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. Ukompas has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.