SICAS Account allows international applicants to DIRECTLY apply to China’s universities for their favorite courses. In order to help you complete the SICAS on-line application, SICAS makes the following simple instructions which we strongly advise you to follow.
Application Steps after choosing a course
The university requires you to complete the above first three sections listed first in order to examine your overall candidature and make a decision about your application.
Once you have finished all the blank sections and submitted your application, you can click the button “Track Admission Status” to know how the university access your application. How to go to Track Admission Status?
The following are the full explanations for each section.
Step 1. Complete Application Form Online
The first step is to fill in the application form online. Please complete the following items:
A. Personal Details Please ensure the personal information you fill in is true and correct. Whenever required to fill in your email, please be sure you offer the current and effective one for the universities will email the scanned copy of your acceptance letter and JW202 forms to the address that you filled.
B. Education You are required to provide the information for all completed and incomplete secondary, vocational, technical, undergraduate or postgraduate training and qualifications. Please click “add new school “to complete it.
C. Language Proficiency You may be asked to provide language proficiency especially Chinese and/or English language tests. If you have passed a language test, please upload a copy of the results in your application documents. Some Chinese-taught degree programs may require HSK Level 4-6, while some English taught programs may require IETLS or TEFEL Results if you are neither a native English speaker nor English medium student in your previous school
D. Employment Please click “add new employment record” to clarify your work experience and your current post. (If any)
E. Proposed Study in China Not all the programs require you to fill in this item. If required, you should clarify your proposed duration of specialized study in China and also state whether you need a pre-degree course to learn Chinese if your future course is taught in Chinese, and then fill in other information according to the guidelines.
F. Financial Guarantee Please state the source of financial support for your study in China.
G. Family Members' Information You will be asked to provide general information about your family members. Please note the required information will only be used by your future university for your application.
H. The Emergency Guarantor The emergency guarantor will be in charge of your case in China if the university or other institution can not contact with you in some very urgent situations. If the university does not mark this item as required, you can leave it blank. If the university you are applying requires an emergency guarantor. You may list your parent or relatives or even SICAS as your guarantor.
I. Declaration Make sure to fill the exact posting information here.Your original admission letter and JW202 will be posted to the address here. Both of the two documents are pre-requisite for applying a student’s visa to study in China.
SICAS Reminder:
The instructions listed below the blank and behind the blank noticed with is the further direction to help you fill each item correctly.
Each university, and even different program offered at the same university, has a different application form.
Compulsory fields are marked with an asterisk (*). Before leaving this section please click 'save' to avoid losing any information. When you have finished all the entries please click on 'section completed' and 'save'.
The application process on SICAS is entirely online. Students don't need to download any application forms. Once you click the 'Apply now' button, the SICAS system will automatically guide students to fill out the correct application form. Once you fill out the application form for one university, the SICAS system will record the information you fill in. If you apply for another program, the information you filled out from before will be automatically transferred to the new application form.
Step 2. Upload Required Documents
According to the university’s admission criteria, you are required to upload photocopies of required application documents.
How to prepare the photocopies
A. Use a scanner to scan your documents and create an image on your computer,
B. You may use a digital camera or mobile phone with camera, be sure to make the photos clear and legible
C. Each file exceeding 8 MB (megabytes) can not be uploaded and all the materials should be image files (.gif, .jpg), Adobe PDF, (.pdf) documents, MS-Word (.doc), or compression files (.rar, .zip).
How to upload documents?
A. Click ‘SELECT FILES’ in the column of 'File Uploads'.
B. Choose the required documents from your computer.
C. Click OK to upload.
The uploading time may vary from several seconds to one minute according to your local connection speed. When your documents are uploading, please DO NOT leave the current section or make any changes.
What photocopies of the documents to upload?
You may be required to upload the following documents:
Photocopy of valid passport
Certificate/diploma of highest education
Academic transcript of highest education
Letter of guarantee
Health certificate
Certification of no criminal record
Certificate of HSK /Results of IETLS or TOEFL
Passport photo
Photocopy of valid visa or residence permit
Personal ID card
Financial support statement
Others
You may be asked to upload more documents depending on each university’s detailed requirements.
Step 3. Pay Fees/Send to University
This section allows you to make payment and submit your application to the university. Please pay the application fee and SICAS processing fee in order to submit your application.
Pay fees
An application fee is charged by the individual university or universities that you apply to. The application fee of a Chinese university is usually between 60-120 USD depending on schools and types of courses.Based on the agreements between SICAS & China’s universities; SICAS does the collection of application fees for universities.
A SICAS processing fee is charged for the operation and maintenance of SICAS. (50 U.S. dollars, which covers your application to seven courses.)
An online invoice from SICAS help you to make an offline payment more conveniently. Click on ‘Browse Invoice’ to see your SICAS invoice. Please take the invoice with you when you wire the money. If you select Western Union or Bank transfer as the payment method, you need to upload the payment receipt after wiring the money at the post office or bank.
Upload the receipt
Send documents to university
To submit your application, please access My SICAS-> My Applications by logging in SICAS, click 'Not Yet' in the column of 'Send to Uni. or Not'. You will see a big 'Send to University”. Click the button and your application will be sent directly to the university.
Once you’ve sent your application, please wait 1-3 weeks for the admission office of the university to check the application materials and process your application.
Once the admission office of the university has made any the updating of your admission status, SICAS will notify you to” Track Admission Status” in your “MY SICAS Account”. And also through a confirmation email to your registered email address.
The confirmation email will lead you to” Track Admission Status” in your “MY SICAS Account” for details. Please make sure to fill your valid email when registering and please also verify it when you login to “MY SICAS Account”.
Once you are accepted by the university, the admission office will post your original admission letter and JW202 form. It takes 5-16working days to reach you. Both of the two documents are pre-requisite for applying a student’s visa to study in China.
If you have any difficulties in completing the above progress, please contact service@sicas.cn
Step 4. Track Admission Status
How to go to “Track Admission Status”?
The part of Track Admission Status can only be available for you when you have completed the first three steps. As the following picture shows, once you have finished all the black sections, you can click the button “Track Admission Status”in”My SICAS Account”or”Track Progress”on the home page of SICAS to track your application status every time.
What does my admission status mean?
In general, it only takes 1-3weeks to receive your Admission Letter or to know if you are refused by the university. The following are the explanation of five general statuses that will be updated by the admission office of the universities when they make a decision on your application, including processing, accepted, pending, refused and posting:
Processing:
The university is processing your application and will notify you in no time.
Accepted:
The university has accepted you and will upload your Admission letter once it is ready, please check in due time and reply to the university if you accept it, then the university will upload your JW 202 form, vice versa.
Pending:
The university have checked your application documents, but they need to be revised according to the university’s request.
Refused:
Sorry, the university can't accept your application.
Posting:
The university has posted your original Admission Letter and JW202 by courier to you.
After you complete your application form, upload all the required application materials and make payment as well, the 'Track Admission Status' can be open for you. You can log in your SICAS account and click 'Track Admission Status' to check your admission status.
Want to know more?
If you can't find the best answers you're looking for in the application help section, you can contact our Students Advice team at service@sicas.cn