Students may apply for admission to a higher education degree programme provided they cumulatively meet the following conditions:

• Hold a Secondary Education qualification or equivalent (through an Equivalence Certification issued by the Directorate-General for Education);
• Have taken, within the previous four years, or be taking in the year of application, the required entrance examinations — National secondary education exams — established for the degree programme they intend to apply for, see exams per country below.

These applicants must request the equivalence of their foreign secondary education qualification at a Portuguese public secondary school or at the Directorate-General for Education (DGE). Subsequently, when applying to Egas Moniz, applicants must request the replacement of their entrance examination(s) under Article 20-A.

The medical declaration, completed using the available form, must certify the absence of any psychological, sensory, or motor disability that would severely interfere with functional capacity and interpersonal communication to the extent of preventing the applicant’s own learning or that of others. The result, expressed as “Fit” or “Unfit,” does not influence the calculation of the application grade.

Reading this information does not exempt applicants from consulting the regulations currently in force.

Documents required for application

• Official identification document;
• Document issued by the legally competent authority of the foreign education system regarding your non-Portuguese secondary education qualification, indicating: i) The final grade of the programme; ii) The grades obtained in the final examinations that you intend to use to replace the entrance exams, the date they were taken, and the grading scale, including the minimum and maximum passing grades for a numerical scale, or the positive grade levels listed in descending order for an alphabetical scale [apostilled under the 1961 Hague Convention];
• Document proving equivalence of the foreign secondary education qualification to Portuguese secondary education, including the final grade converted to the Portuguese scale of 0–200 (request here);
• Application for replacement of entrance exams – Article 20-A of Decree-Law no. 296-A/98, of 25 September, as currently in force;
• Group A prerequisite – Interpersonal Communication (link here). This prerequisite is intended to demonstrate the applicant’s interpersonal communication skills.

All documentation written in a language other than Portuguese must be accompanied by a certified translation into Portuguese by the competent authorities.