Duration (Years)

Slot

180

ECTs

482*

Investment (euros)

*mensal (12 meses)

The Forensic and Criminal Sciences degree presents an innovative and pioneering programme in Portugal. It arose from the need to train forensic scientists with competences in the different areas of the natural sciences and with a strong laboratory co...

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Why you should apply

High practical component of the programme

Final curricular internship

Career possibilities

Course programme (UC)

Embark on this journey

Quantitative Methods in Forensic Sciences
Forensic Chemistry I
Animal and Plant Biology
Introduction to Forensic Laboratories
General Anatomy
Introduction to Criminal Investigation and Forensic Sciences
Statistics Applied to Forensic Sciences
Forensic Chemistry II
Biochemistry
Forensic Physics
Human Physiology
Introduction to Law

Testemonies

Hélder Galego

Diogo Fernandes

João Ramalho

The Forensic Science course is well designed with a strong laboratory component of chemistry, biology and physics in the first year of the course, which strongly prepares us and gives us the fundamental basis for more specific forensic curricular units in later years, giving us all the skills that a good analyst should, in my opinion, have in order to be able to work in a forensic laboratory team. The modules associated with crime scenarios are one of the most rewarding and psychologically chall...

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What you need to apply

For students coming from a non-Portuguese High School (EU):

Have completed, or have completed in the current academic year, a course of high school education;
Have taken in the two previous years or be taking in the year in which you apply for, the entrance exams — national examinations of secondary education (homologous to the portuguese national exams) — fixed for the course to which you intend to apply. These candidates will have to request the equivalence of their foreign secondary education at DGE Portugal - General-Directorate of Education. Afterwards, while applying to Egas Moniz, candidates have to request the replacement of the portuguese entrance examination through article 20-A.

For non-EU students:

Non-holders of any EU citizenship (in accordance with Article 2 of the Regulation);
Be the holder of a high school qualification or equivalent (through Equivalence of Foreign Qualifications at DGE);
Have taken national final exams of foreign secondary education that are considered homologous to the entrance exams set for the chosen program. - In the absence of said exams, the candidate will have to take entrance exams at the institution.

Notice Call non-EU Students