29.07.2021
- If you are the holder of a Portuguese secondary school qualification you have to gain entrance by taking national final secondary school exams;
- Students with non-Portuguese qualifications legally equivalent to Portuguese secondary education may apply to take the Portuguese entrance exams. These are held in Portugal or in a Portuguese school abroad, and the candidate must register under the same conditions and statutory deadlines, regularly emitted by the General Directorate of Higher Education (DGES) of the Portuguese Government.
- The entrance exams may be replaced by final examinations in other courses, if they have national scope and correspond to the homologous subjects of the entrance exams. (Subjects considered homologous are those which, though titled differently, are at an identical level with identical objectives and similar content to the entrance exams they are intended to replace.
- Proof of entrance qualifications may still be replaced by examinations drawn up by the organic units on subjects tested in the national entrance exam, when this is deemed necessary by the candidate selection panel;
- The grades of national entrance exams and foreign exams are valid in the year of their completion and in the two years following. Only grades equal or superior to the minimum requirement for the institution may be used as proof.