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To study a degree at the Universitat de València, students from an educational system from a non-EU country or one without an agreement with the UV must:

  1. Get an official recognition for their foreign pre-university studies. Responsible: Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sport.
  2. Get an access certification, which includes the university entrance grade (NAU). Responsible: UNEDasiss.
  3. To raise the university entrance grade, follow the planned procedure. Responsible: UNEDasiss.
  4. Participate in the access and admission procedure of the Universitat de València through the place application form in the Pre-enrolment procedure, which is the same for the five Valencian public universities. Responsible: Valencian Department of Education, Universities and Employment.
  5. Once a place is obtained in the pre-enrolment, the enrolment must be formalised.

1. Official recognition of pre-university studies

First, the applicant must request the official recognition of his or her foreign pre-university studies (bachillerato title or equivalent) to the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sport.

2. UNEDasiss Access Certification 

UNEDasiss is a service which depends on the National Distance Education University (UNED) and which responsibility is to evaluate the academic records of international students, to issue the certification that allows to request a place through pre-enrolment and to carry out the tests for the access to the undergraduate studies in Spanish universities.
Once the official recognition has been requested, the applicants must contact UNEDasiss to ask for a certification of completed pre-university studies in their origin country. It is not necessary to wait for the certification resolution from the Ministry to do this step.  It can be requested presenting the certificate application note or the digital voucher which proves that the applicant has presented the documents for recognition. In this certification, there will be a grade in between 5 and 6 points, according to the grades obtained in the official recognition of bachillerato or an equivalent carried out in a foreign country. 

  • Access to the UNEDasiss website to request the access certification forSpanish universities.
  • To ask for a question relative to this procedure or any other managed by the UNEDasiss, make a face-to-face appointment or set a video call in Contact UNEDasiss.

3. Raise the university entrance grade

It is important to know that, specially when aiming to access certain highly requested degrees, that the university access is calculated with a base of 14 points. Therefore, the Specific Competence Tests (PCE) must be carried out if the applicants wish to raise their access grade (obtained with the UNEDasiss official recognition).
 

Specific Competences Tests (PCE)

The PCE are tests organised by UNEDasiss for foreign students to raise their university entrance grade. Students must chose a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 6 subjects to take, among the subject list offered by UNEDasiss. 

To chose the subjects, students must know the Weighting System applied to the marks obtained in the PCE to calculate the access grade. Hence, depending on the degree one wishes to take, the subjects which weight more must be chosen to try to get a higher access grade.

  • Check, at the drop-downs of this website, the section University Entrance Grade Calculation for more information on the Weighting System.

Location, application period and dates

The Specific Competences Tests (PCE) exams can be carried out in any of the headquarters UNEDasiss has in different countries. The enrolment period usually starts in February and the exams are usually in May (estimated dates).

  • Check on the website of UNEDasiss the locations and dates of the PCE stablished for each academic year.
     

4. Access and admission procedure to the Universitat de València

To participate in the admission procedure for the undergraduate studies of the Universitat de València, applicants must request a place through pre-enrolment.

The pre-enrolment is the procedure in which the places the degrees offer to the five Valencian public universities are assigned and is managed by the Valencian Department of Education, Universities and Employment. For that reason, each student presents one pre-enrolment in any of the Valencian public universities.

In said pre-enrolment, the students are organised based on their access grades, from higher to lower, and the places are assigned following this order until there are no more places.

  • Languages requirements. Before completing the pre-enrolment process, check the requirements present oin the document Undergraduate degrees with special conditions for pre-enrolment  [PDF].
  • Pre-enrolment period It usually starts in mid-June and ends on the first week of July. 
  • Pre-enrolment results. The allocation for the places of the degrees is usually made public mid-July. It can be checked in the same application used to present the pre-enrolment request.
  • Access to the pre-enrolment form: http://www.preinscripcion.gva.es
Calculation of the admission grade of the Universitat de València.

The entrance grade for Spanish universities is calculated on 14 points (maximum grade for the university admission).
For the calculation of the admission grade for a certain degree (NAT) is important to know:

  1. The access grade obtained in the UNEDasiss official certification. Between 5 and 6 points.
  2. If the student has taken the PCE exams, as long as the grades of each exam are equal or higher than five, the access grade will raise.
    1. The four better grades obtained in the exams multiplied by 0.1 will be added to the grade obtained in the official certification and can raise the university entrance grade (NAU) up until 10 points.
    2. Two of the taken subjects in the PCE can weight as well to raise the university entrance grade (NAU) up until 14 points. Here, what is important is to know the Weighting System that applies to the grades of the subjects based on their connexion with each degree. 

How does the weighing works? The weightings are coefficients which multiply two of the grades obtained in the subjects passed in the PCE. The weightings can be: 0, 0.1 or 0.2.  The weighting tables of the subjects are fixed by each university for each of the degrees based on the connexion between the subjects and a specific degree. If a subject is not connected to a degree, there is not a weighting for it.
Hence, is important that students, before choosing the subjects of the PCE to take the exams, check the weightings for the corresponding course and, among them, select subjects with the highest weighting possible (0.2).

Cut-off marks

The Universitat de València does not demand a specific grade for the admission of students in the different degrees. When speaking about ‘cut-off marks’ we are talking about the grade of the last student who obtained a place in a degree in the last academic year. It is an illustrative grade of each academic year and it varies depending on the demand that each degree has.

5. Enrollment at the University of Valencia

Students accepted in the Universitat de València will receive an SMS with the confirmation. The enrolment will be carried out online and at an specific time and day. Therefore, it is very important to check the appointment for enrolment in the UV to get enrolled in the degree in which the student has obtained a place.

 

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