Access routes

• National Admission Concourse (Access via High School conclusion)

• After high school conclusion, students wishing to attend a degree at ISA must apply through the National Admission Concourse to Higher Education (CNAES), formulating its application in Access to Higher Education Offices of the Ministry of Education and Science .
  - CNAES Website: http://www.dges.mctes.pt/DGES/pt/Estudantes/Acesso/)

• Course changes, transfers and readmissions regime

• A course change is an enrollment on a course different from the one in which the student previously enrolled, in the same or another higher education institution, with or without interruption of enrollment in a higher education course.
• A transfer is the enrollment on a course with the same name but in a different higher education institution from the one the student is or has been registered, with or without interruption of enrollment in a higher education course.
• A readmission is the act by which a student, after an interruption of studies in a particular course and higher education institution, registers in the same institution and in the same course or in another that has befallen it.


On-line applications
More information here [PT]

• Holders of other University Courses

• To the Special Admission Concourse intended for Holders of University Courses may apply holders of university courses, namely PhD degree, master's degree, 5 year degree ("licenciatura") and bachelor's degree ("bacharelato").
  
  
  On-line applications

  More information here [PT]

• Older than 23

See all the information at: http://m23.ulisboa.pt/

• Special regimes

• Students who are in one of the following conditions are eligible for special access contidions, under the terms established by the Portuguese law:

  • Portuguese officials on a diplomatic mission abroad and the family members who accompany them;
  • Fellows Portuguese citizens abroad or civil servants on official mission abroad and the family members who accompany them;
  • Officials in the Portuguese Armed Forces, while fulfilling specific training needs of the Armed Forces;
  • National scholarship students from African Portuguese speaking countries, in the framework of cooperation agreements signed by the Portuguese State;
  • Foreign employees of diplomatic missions accredited in Portugal and their families residing here, on a reciprocal basis;
  • Practitioner athletes with high competition status or integrated in the path of high competition, to which Decree-Law No. 125/95, of May 31st referrs to, amended by Decree-Law No. 123/96, August 10th, regulated by Ordinance No. 947/95, of August 1st;
  • Naturals and their natural children of the territory of East Timor.

  For more information see:
  http://www.dges.mctes.pt/DGES/pt/Estudantes/Acesso/RegimesEspeciais/

  Attachments
  Decree-Law No. 393-A/99 (regulates the special regimes for access and admission to higher education for students who meet specific educational and personal qualifications) [PT]
  

• International Student

• Please view all information regarding this access route, and associated status here.

Vacancies and admission examinations 2022-2023 (initial vacancies)

Minimum grades

Grade of the last admitted student

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