The European Credit Transfer System - ECTS was developed by the European Commission and it defines the evaluation of students' workload in a form of credit points. Higher education in Slovenia has become evaluated with credits as a part of the Bologna reform. The purpose of unified European credit system is to achieve comparability of different study programmes and to enable mobility between higher education institutions in Slovenia as well as internationally. ECTS is based on actual students' workload, transparency of study programmes and students' success. (Criteria for credit assignment to study programmes according to ECTS, Official Gazette of Republic of Slovenia, no. 124/2004, 19. 11. 2004) 
 
Every year at ISSBS is evaluated with 60 credits and every trimester is evaluated with approximatelly 20 credits.