Admission and enrolment : Admission

• If you have a baccalaureate (or COU) certificate + PAU certificate, regardless of the baccalaureate modality/option taken.
• If you have been in further education or taken higher-level vocational training. (You can take specific-stage PAU exams to improve your admission score.)

If you are a Spanish national and have taken official courses or you have a certificate that qualifies you for university study from an overseas education system, you need to get any course certificates officially approved. For further information, see the "Studying in Catalonia a Catalunya: Officially Approving Baccalaureate Certificates "section on the Catalan Government’s Ministry of Education website.

For further information on PAU university entrance exams and the university pre-enrolment process you need to undergo before you can be awarded a place to study at a university in Catalonia, please contact:

University Admissions Office
Address: Via Laietana, 2, planta baixa
City: 08003 Barcelona
Tel numbers: (+34) 93 223 03 23 and (+34) 93 223 25 91, 9 am to 2 pm
Contact address: Contact mailbox
Opening hours: All year round, Monday to Friday, 9 am to 2 pm.

You can find more information at:

• PAU University Entrance Exams
• Pre-enrolment at Catalan universities
• Information on university admissions

You need to pre-enrol in both cases. If you already have a degree and want to start the first year of a degree course, you also need to pre-enrol for university admission

Once you have been accepted, you should follow the ESCI-UPF enrolment process.

If you are over 25 and do not have any certificate that qualifies you for university study, you can gain admission to official university degree courses if you pass a university entrance exam and pre-enrol for university admission.

• Information on entrance exams and pre-enrolment for the over-25s
• Information on enrolment procedures

You will be given preference if you apply to take a degree in the same area of knowledge as the subjects you took in the specific stage of your entrance exams.

If you are over 45 and do not have any certificate that qualifies you for university study, you can gain admission to official university degree courses if you pass a university entrance exam and pre-enrol for university admission.

• Information on entrance exams and pre-enrolment for the over-45s
• Information on enrolment procedures

 If you pass the exam, you will be called for an interview via the ACCESNET portal at the university teaching the course you want to take.

There are two phases: if you successfully pass the first phase, you will then have a personal interview.

• Phase 1. Entrance exam
• Phase 2. Personal interview

Structure of the process for assessing professional or work experience for taking a degree course at UPF

Personal interview

1. The interview serves to assess your maturity and suitability for successfully taking the degree course you have applied for. At the end of the interview, you will be graded as Suitable or Not Suitable. If you are judged to be Not Suitable, you have not passed this phase.

2. The Assessment Committee will conduct the interview preferentially in Catalan and may check your comprehension and expression skills in any of the teaching languages used on the course in question.

3. If you are judged to be Suitable, you will be awarded a final grade equivalent to the sum of your scores from Phase 1, which will also serve to allocate the available places.

Students who have studied in an EU member state or any other country that has a reciprocity agreement.

You may apply via this path if you have studied in an EU member state or in Switzerland, Andorra, Iceland, Norway, Lichtenstein or China, or if you have a European or international baccalaureate certificate (List of applicable countries).

You can gain admission to Spanish universities without having to get your baccalaureate certificate officially recognised or having to take PAU university entrance exams for overseas students, provided you fulfil the academic requirements qualifying you for university study in your country.

If you apply via this path, you cannot apply via other paths during the same academic year. This path is not open to you if you have already studied at another Spanish university.

Process:

• Obtain accreditation to gain admission to a Spanish university (UNEDassis).

If you want to improve your grade, you have two options:

 - take specific-stage PAU exams at any Spanish university. The calendar for taking these exams in Catalonia is available on the Canal Universitats website.

You will find the weightings for subjects for gaining admission to Catalan public universities in the weightings table published by the Catalan Government.

 - take the Specific Competency Exams (PCE) offered by UNED.

• Pre-enrol. If you want to enrol for the first year of a course taught at a university department or school in Catalonia, you need to pre-enrol at the University Admissions Office.

More information:

• Information on the ESCI-UPF enrolment process.

Information from the Catalan Government on PAU university entrance exams and pre-enrolment (Canal Universitats).

Students who have studied in countries not covered by the above cases

This admission pathway is open to students who have completed secondary education in a country without a reciprocal international agreement but who are a national of an EU country or are resident in an EU country. Students who apply through this pathway have to get their secondary education certificate officially recognised.

If your secondary education certificate is officially recognised as equivalent to baccalaureate, you will have to sit the PAU university entrance exams organised by the Spanish Open University (UNED). Once you have passed these exams, you may apply to study at any Catalan university by pre-enrolling.

This pathway for gaining admission to study for a degree at UPF is open to students who have already started a degree course at a Spanish university but want to change university or official university course, as well as to students who have started or completed a university course overseas but have not had their degree certificate officially recognised or obtained a certificate of academic equivalence at the official university level in Spain and who meet the requirements set out in Article 8.3 of the Bachelor’s Degree Academic Regulations approved by the Governing Body on 9 July 2008 and amended by the Governing Body on 13 July 2011, on 9 May and 7 November 2012 and on 17 February 2016, on 6 July and 11 April 2016, on 11 April 2018 and on 20 February, 29 March and 11 December 2019.

1. Regulations

Admission requirements for students who have already studied at university elsewhere (approved by the Governing Body on 3 March 2010 and amended by the Governing Body on 2 March 2011 and on 4 February 2015).

2. Call for applications

Every year, the university calls for applications and sets out the deadline, admission criteria, the number of places on offer and the timetable for the proces.

Call for applications for the 2021-2022 academic year (in catalan)

Extraordinary call for aplications for the 2021-2022 academic year (in catalan)

3. Publication of results

The admission results for each stage and the definitive admission results will be published in this section within the deadline set out in the call for applications. In all cases, applicants shall be understood to have been informed once the results have been posted on the corresponding website.

Publication of ordinary call results 2021-2022 - phase 1 (catalan version)

List of students admitted and excluded from the regular call for the 2021-2022 academic year (catalan version)

Publication of extraordinary call results 2021-2022

3. Other information

Credit transfer and recognition by ESCI-UPF.

If you do not meet these requirements and want to take a degree course, you should pre-enrol for university admission.