The application for public higher education is made annually through a national competition conducted by the Directorate General for Higher Education (DGES).

Applicants for Higher Education via General Admission must:

– Hold a secondary education programme or a legally equivalent qualification;

– Take or have taken in the last two years the national examinations corresponding to the admission tests required in the academic year of their application.

The admission tests required to attend the study cycle conferring a bachelor’s degree are the following:

For the academic year 2015/2016, one of the following combinations of admission tests:

(18)Portuguese and (11)History or (18)Portuguese and (06)Philosophy

For more information, visit the DGES (Directorate General for Higher Education) website.

International Student is a student who is not a Portuguese national. The following are not considered international students: nationals of a Member State of the European Union; those who, despite not being nationals of a Member State of the European Union, have been legal residents in Portugal for more than two years; those who apply for admission to higher education via special rules of admission to Higher Education.

The application is submitted through the Application Portal.

For more information, click on:

Special Competition for Admission of International Students – Order no. 7/2015 of 11 March

University of Lisbon Regulation on Enrolment and Admission of International Students – Order no. 8175-B/2014 of 23 June

The Special Admission Testing for Higher Education for students over 23 years old is aimed at students who were approved in the examinations specifically designed to assess their ability to attend higher education.

The application period runs from 15 July to 15 August, 2015.

The application is submitted through the Application Portal.

For more information, visit the University of Lisbon website or click on:

Special Admission Testing for Higher Education – Order no. 27/2014

Regulation of the Admission Procedure and Assignment of Credits of Qualifications – Over 23 – Order no. 7329/2008

Regulation of the Evaluation Procedure of the University of Lisbon – Over 23 – Order no. 3236/2015

The change of studies in national institutions is the act by which a student registers in a different programme than that which he/she enrolled in the last time in a different institution of higher education, with or without interruption of the enrolment in a higher degree.

The application period runs from 15 July to 15 August, 2015.

The application is submitted through the portal: https://fd.academicos.ulisboa.pt/cssnetfd/page

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Re-admission, Change of Studies and Transfers – Order no. 26/2014

Re-admission is the act by which a student, after an interruption of studies in a particular higher education course and institution registers and enrols in the same course and in the same institution.

The application period runs from 15 July to 15 August, 2015.

The application is submitted through the portal: https://fd.academicos.ulisboa.pt/cssnetfd/page

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Re-admission, Change of Studies and Transfers – Order no. 26/2014

The holders of Bachelor’s degree or higher degrees may access Higher Education through the Special Admission Testing for Graduates degrees.

The application period runs from 15 July to 15 August, 2015.

The application is submitted through the portal: https://fd.academicos.ulisboa.pt/cssnetfd/page

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Special Admission Testing for Higher Education – Order no. 27/2014

Transfer of national institutions is the act by which a student registers and enrols in the same programme in a different institution than that in which he/she was enrolled.

The application period runs from 15 July to 15 August, 2015.

The application is submitted through the portal: https://fd.academicos.ulisboa.pt/cssnetfd/page

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Re-admission, Change of Studies and Transfer – Order no. 26/2014

The following can apply to attend the Separate Curriculum Units:

– Any student of the University of Lisbon who attends a study cycle to which such curriculum unit belongs as elective, or who is enrolled in a study cycle different from the level to which said curriculum unit refers;

– External students to the University of Lisbon, enrolled in other institutions of Higher Education;

– Others, not enrolled in institutions of higher education.

For more information, click on:

Registration for Separate Curriculum Units – Order no. 37/2014

University of Lisbon Regulation on Enrolment in Separate Curriculum Units – Order no. 8389/2014

Applications are submitted online only in digital format, through the Application Portal.

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