UBIS has designed its course of studies according to both US standards and the European standards as laid out in the Bologna Accord of 1999. This facilitates transferibility of credit both in US and in Europe.

UBIS uses a double credit system where each course is assigned two types  of credits:

U-credits (following US criteria) and

E-credits (following ECTS criteria).

Each one-term forty-hour course at UBIS represents 3 U-credits and approximately 4.5 E-credits, depending on the actual workload described in the course syllabus.

Averages, GPAs and ranking are based on the U-credits, while the E-credits are issued to facilitate credit transferability within Europe.

The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS), as introduced in the Bologna Accord, is based on the principle that 60 credits constitute the workload of a full-time student during one academic year. Student workload for a full-time program in Europe amounts to approximately 1800 hours per year. As such, one ECTS credit stands for between 25 and 30 working hours.

US credits are awarded according to contact time. One course is usually the equivalent of 3 credits, each credit representing one hour of contact time per week for a 14 week semester.