Application for pre-enrolment 2011
Pre-enrolment is the procedure we follow to assign university places when the number of applicants is higher than the number of places available. The five Valencian state universities constitute one pre-enrolment district. This means that students who want to apply for courses at different universities can do so with only one document that specifies the courses they want to study. Students can apply for a place on any of the university degrees they choose.

Physical ability trial
Students who want to take the Degree in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences must enrol for physical trials between the 15th and 30th of June.

A percentage of all the places on each degree at the University of Valencia will be reserved for applicants from various specific access routes. The highest quota (number of reserved places) is for graduates of Batxillerat (Spanish upper secondary school education) and graduates of Cicles Formatius (Spanish vocational education courses).

In addition, the following personal situations allow access to university studies via specific quotas:

• People with disability.
  Disabilities certified by the Spanish state to a level of 33% or permanent special educational needs associated with personal circumstances. 
  5% of places. If not all of the places in this quota are not covered in the June phase, the percentage of places in the September phase can be increased to cover the number of places in this quota left unoccupied in June.
• High Level or Elite Sportsmen (Levels A or B).
  3% of places. For the Degree in Physical Education and Sports Sciences and for the Degree in Physiotherapy, there will be an additional quota – a minimum of 5% – (until the September phase).

The pre-enrolment procedure has two phases. The first phase is an ordinary call for applications in June. The second phase is an extraordinary call for applications in September. In this second phase, the places that have not been covered in June are adjudicated.

Phase A - June 2011: from the 14th June to the 12th July
Phase B - September 2011 (after the Proves d’Accés a la Universitat (University Entry Examinations) have taken place).

Applicants should fill in a form online which will be available on the Conselleria d'Educació (Valencian Ministry of Education) webpage (www.preinscripcion.gva.es) during the preinscription period. You MUST PRESENT this form, printed and signed by the applicant, at the university school or faculty that offers your first choice of degree. In addition to the application form, you will need to present an original and photocopy of the documents that the UNED (Spanish National University of Distance Learning) has issued you, and an original and photocopy of your DNI (Spanish identity card), passport or NIE (Spanish foreign identity document).

The Organizing Committee for Access and Pre-enrolment Procedures in the Valencian Country (Comissió Gestora dels Processos d'Accés i Preinscripció de la Comunitat Valenciana) have accorded that applicants who have obtained their admission credentials must provide proof of their Spanish language skills, or pass a test organized for this specific purpose, if they want to take one of the degrees listed above.

The following people are EXEMPT from taking the tests:

• Spanish students of the International Baccalaureate in Spain or who have studied at international schools based in Spain, Spanish chapters abroad and European schools.
• Students who have a Diploma in Spanish as a Foreign Language issued by the Cervantes Institute (at level B2).
• Students who have passed language skills tests in any other university located in Spain.

Part 1: Written comprehension and expression
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes.
Candidates will be asked to answer 6 questions on a text of 600 words maximum, and write a composition. 

Part 2: Listening comprehension
Length: 30 minutes.
Candidates will listen to 3 oral texts. They must answer 4 questions about each of them.

Part 3: Communicative understanding
Length: 1 hour.
Candidates must answer 100 multiple-choice questions about aspects related to vocabulary, grammar and pragmatic adaption.

Enrolment for the test: From the 20th to the 28th of June 2011
at the Servei d’Estudiants (Student Information Service).
Fee: 71.39 euros

Date and Location of Test: 2nd of July 2011, at 9:00 o’clock
Centre d’Idiomes (University of Valencia Language Centre)
Carrer del Doctor Joan Reglà, 6 46010 Valencia

Publication of results: to be determined
Appeals: to be determined

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Official recognition of secondary education certificates:

For a foreign academic qualification to have complete validity (both professionally and academically), it must be officially recognised (a process called homologación). To do this, you must present it to the Spanish educational authorities. They will compare it with a similar official Spanish degree and certify their equivalency

Requirements and procedure (Spanish Ministry of Education)

Submission of documentation for Official recognition
Documents must be submitted to the Ministeri d’Eudcació (Ministry of Education), via Spanish consulates abroad and the Spanish Government’s regional delegations.

MINISTERI D'EDUCACIÓ
Subdirecció General de Títols i Homologacions
Calle Alcalá, 36
28014 Madrid
Phone: (+34)  91 701 85 00

DELEGACIÓ DEL MINISTERI D'EDUCACIÓ (VALENCIA)
Edifici Serveis Múltiples
Carrer de Joaquim Ballester, 39
46009 València
Phone: (+34)  96 307 94 00

Entry tests for students from non-EU education systems

To start university studies in Spain, you must take a selective entry test once you have finished secondary education. Students who have studied in non-EU countries (except for Iceland, Norway Liechtenstein, Switzerland or China) must:

1. Obtain official recognition that your non-Spanish secondary studies are equivalent to the Batxillerat (Spanish upper secondary education). This is done by the Ministry of Education.
2. Enrol and pass the specific selective entry tests for foreigners. These exams are organized by the UNED (Spanish National University of Distance Learning), where students must go to enrol and take the test.

   UNED. SECCIÓN "PAU"
   Edificio Facultad de Ciencias
   C. Senda del Rey, s/n
   28040 MADRID
   Phone: (+34)  91 398 66 12/13

   Also in some affiliated centres, the UNED’s address in Valencia is:
   UNED - València
   Carrer de la Casa de la Misericòrdia, 34
   Phone: (+34)  96 370 78 12

3. Pre-enrol at the university where you want to study. At the University of Valencia, this is the responability of the Conselleria d’Educació (Valencian Ministry of Education). You can access the degrees at the five Valencian state universities via this single procedure. You can do this via the University of Valencia. University districts are organisms that include all of the universities in one Spanish region in order to assign places. Each district establishes deadlines and supplies application forms for pre-enrolment.

Pre-enrolment is the procedure we follow to assign university places when the number of applicants is higher than the number of places available. The five Valencian state universities constitute one pre-enrolment district. This means that students who want to apply for courses at different universities can do so with only one document that specifies the courses they want to study. Students can apply for a place on any of the university degrees they choose, independently of in which university the entry tests have been made.

It is important to know that: students from foreign educational systems can only to be admitted on certain degrees at the University of Valencia, if they prove that they have an adequate level of Spanish. .

Physical ability trial
Students who want to take the Degree in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences must enrol for physical trials between the 15th and 30th of June.

The pre-enrolment procedure has two phases. The first phase is an ordinary call for applications in June. The second phase is an extraordinary call for applications in September. In this second phase, the places that have not been covered in June are adjudicated.

Phase A - June 2011: from the 14th June to the 5th July
Phase B - to be determined (after the Proves d’Accés a la Universitat (University Entry Examinations) have taken place).

Applicants should fill in a form online which will be available on the Conselleria d'Educació (Valencian Ministry of Education) webpage (www.preinscripcion.gva.es) during the preinscription period. You MUST PRESENT this form, printed and signed by the applicant, at the university school or faculty that offers your first choice of degree. In addition to the application form, you will need to present an original and photocopy of the documents that the UNED (Spanish National University of Distance Learning) has issued you, and an original and photocopy of your DNI (Spanish identity card), passport or NIE (Spanish foreign identity document).

1. You must have started studying an official university degree in any university in Spain or abroad.
2. You must have studied enough subjects for the University to be able to officially recognize a minimum of 30 credits as equivalent in the degree you want to enter.

The faculty or university school will offer a number of places on each degree for students who want to change university or degree, and these centres will announce a period of time for applications during May. If some places are available after this, there will be an extraordinary application period in July. The Comissió Acadèmica de Títol (Academic Degree Commission) will order applications according to the following criteria:

• Firstly, applicants who have studied degrees in the same area of knowledge. Degrees that permit students to work in regulated professions, students who have started studying degrees that qualify students for the same profession have preference.
• In second place, applicants who have studied degrees from other areas of knowledge.
• After applying these criteria, the order in each group will be:
  1. The number of officially recognized credits
  2. The average grade as it appears on the academic transcript
  3. The reason for application (with proof): change of job; change of family address; elite and high-performance athletes; the existence of an accord with the university of origin; and other justified reasons.
• We do not accept applications where students will have to take subjects for which there are no teachers available because of the expiry of the related study plan. We do not accept applications from students who have failed one of the subjects of their original degree six times.
• All of the students admitted must study at least 30 credits of the new degree, as well as the corresponding final project (except for students with special circumstances that are duly accredited).

1. Submit an APPLICATION addressed to the dean or director of the faculty or university school that offers the degree, with a statement specifying motives.
2. The RESOLUTION of the admissions procedure will be published on the faculty or school’s website. This right to admission is only valid for the academic year following the application.
3. The TRANSFER PROCEDURE takes place at the university or school of origin, depending on your specific case. If you are changing universities, you must pay the corresponding fees. If you studied at a foreign or private university, you must also pay to include the subjects from the original degree that the University has officially recognized on your academic transcript.
4. ENROL on the degree you have gained admission to.

You can apply for convalidation if:

• You have not finished your official studies abroad
• You have finished your studies abroad and have applied for official recognition (homolgació) of these studies, but you have been denied.
• You have finished studies abroad but have not applied for their official recognition.
• You have finished studies abroad and you have applied for – or you have obtained – official recognition that your studies are equivalent to a generic academic degree.

1. Application form (completed by the applicant).
2. Proof of nationality: Passport; identity card or DNI (Spanish identity card).
3. Official certificate of studies, including information on: the official duration, in academic years, of your studies; the subjects you studied; the total duration (in hours) of each subject; and your marks.
4. The study programme of the subjects you studied, stamped by the university of origin. A document that certifies that the university of origin is authorized by the higher education system of that country.
5. A sworn affidavit (a signed declaration) that certifies that you have not requested official recognition.
6. Any other documents you consider necessary to support your request. The documents should be legal and translated in cases where the original is not written in an official language of the University of Valencia (Catalan or Spanish).

Send the application to the faculty that teaches the degree(s) that you want to study, before the deadline indicated by that faculty, and addressed to the faculty’s dean.

Schools & Faculties

ENROLMENT 2011
From the 21st of March to the 15th of April 2011
Documentation:

1. Photocopy of DNI (Spanish identity card), NIE
   (foreigner’s identification number) or passport.
2. Proof of payment of the fee (€68.64)
3. A sworn affidavit (a signed declaration) that you are not in possession
   of any qualification necessary for access to studies via any other route.
4. Proof of numerous family or disability, if applicable.

Submission of documents: until the 20th of April, at the:

SERVEI D'ESTUDIANTS

Edifici del Rectorat

Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 13

46010 València

Opening hours: from 9.00 to 14.00, Monday to Friday.

a) General Phase, consists of four exercises:

1. Analysis of a text about a current topic
2. Language: Spanish
3. Language: Catalan
4. Foreign language (English, French, German, Italian or Portuguese)

Mark: 40% for the text analysis and 20% for the rest of the exercises.
Important: No candidates will be exempt from taking the tests in Spanish, Catalan and the foreign language.

b) Specific Phase, consists of two exercises:

ARTS AND HUMANITIES  

Students must choose two of the following:
Philosophy, History, Artistic Drawing or Artistic Expression Techniques.

SCIENCES

Compulsory: Mathematics and Chemistry.

HEALTH SCIENCES  

Compulsory: Biology.
Students must choose between: Physics and Chemistry.

SOCIAL AND LEGAL SCIENCES  

Students must choose two of the following:
Philosophy, History, Artistic Drawing or Artistic Expression Techniques.

ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE  

Compulsory: Mathematics and Technical Drawing.

In the case that candidates wish to select two branches at the same time, this phase will consist of the following exercises:

ARTS AND HUMANITIES + SOCIAL AND LEGAL SCIENCES  

Compulsory:  History.  
Students must choose between:
Philosophy OR Artistic Drawing OR Artistic Expression Techniques. 
Students must choose between:
Geography OR Mathematics.

SCIENCES + HEALTH SCIENCES  

Compulsory: Mathematics, Chemistry and Biology.

SCIENCES + ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

Compulsory: Mathematics.
Students must choose between:
a) Physics
b) Chemistry and Technical Drawing.

SCIENCES + HEALTH SCIENCES + ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE  

Compulsory: Mathematics, Biology and Physics.

Mark: If the student has done two exercises, their mark will be the arithmetical average of both. If the student has opted for two branches, two marks will be calculated. For each branch, the arithmetical average of the two best marks of the subjects within the corresponding branch will be considered. 

The definitive mark will be the arithmetical average of the two phases, which will not be calculated if the candidate has obtained a mark lower than 40% in either of the phases.

With the allocated mark, candidates can follow the ordinary ENROLMENT procedure to be assigned a place in their chosen degree.

A) Work and professional experience. Up to 5 points.

Jobs in fields related to the branch of the degree that the candidate wishes to study, worth 0.05 points per whole month worked. Please see the following:

1. Degrees classified into branches 
2. Link between branches and professional fields

It is necessary to certify this experience with contracts or letters of appointment which specify the work carried out and official certificates which prove that you have contributed to Social Security. In the case of the Degree in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, candidates can present their federal licence as a technician or trainer.

B) Training. Up to 3 points.

• Courses (lasting 15 hours or more) directly related with the chosen degree, worth 0.02 points per hour.
• Courses (lasting 15 hours or more) included in the professional families of the degree, even if they are not directly related with the degree chosen, worth 0.01 points per hour.

It is necessary to provide documents which specify the content, date and duration of the courses.

Information related to the Assessment phase continues
in the Language Skills Tab.

This information is part of the Assessment phase.

C) Knowledge of Catalan. Up to 1 point.

Possession of the certificate issued or officially recognised by the Junta Qualificadora de Coneixements de Valencià, or by the Valencian universities, according to the following scale. If candidates are in possession of more than one of the qualifications, only the higher level will count:

• Oral knowledge: 0.25 points
• Grau elemental (pre-intemediate level - B1): 0.5 points
• Grau mitjà (advanced level - C1): 0.75 points
• Grau superior (proficiency level - C2): 1 point

D) Knowledge of EU languages. Up to 1 point.

For each completed course at the Escola Oficial d'Idiomes: 0.2 points. The tribunal can take into consideration other certificates, such as the faculties of language studies and/or translation, Centre d'Idiomes de la UV (University of Valencia language centre), British Council, Institut Française , Goethe Institut, Centre G. Leopardi)

If candidates pass the assessment phase (minimum 50%), they will be
called for an interview to value their maturity and suitability.

The final mark will be the total of all of the elements involved in the assessment phase and with this mark, applications will be placed in order according to the degree pre-enrolment process, as long as the result of the interview is a PASS.

With their allocated mark, candidates can then follow the ordinary ENROLMENT procedure and be assigned a place in their chosen degree.

ENROLMENT 2011
From the 21st of March to the 15th of April 2011
Documentation:

1. Photocopy of DNI (Spanish identity card), NIE
   (foreigner’s identification number) or passport.
2. Proof of payment of the fee (€68.64)
3. Proof of numerous family or disability, if applicable.

Submission of documents: until the 20th of April, at the:

SERVEI D'ESTUDIANTS

Edifici del Rectorat

Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 13

46010 València

Opening hours: from 9.00 to 14.00, Monday to Friday.

It consists of three parts:

• Analysis of a text about a current topic (Subjects / Example)
• Language: Spanish (Example and bibliography)
• Language: Catalan (Syllabus / Example / Bibliography)

Important:
In no case will candidates be exempt from taking the test in Spanish and Catalan.  

The final mark, which must each be over '4' (40%), will be the result of calculating the grades of the different exercises in the following way: 50% for the text analysis and 25% for the rest of the exercises. The resulting mark must be higher than 5 (50%) for candidates to be submitted for the individual interview. This interview will either be given a pass or fail and it is necessary to pass in order to pre-enrol.

With the allocated mark, candidates can follow the ordinary ENROLMENT procedure to be assigned a place in their chosen degree.