Enrolment/Registration

• Enrolling/Registering
• General Information
• 2010/11 Deadlines
• 2010/11 Procedures
• Rules for Part-time Registration
• Adding/Dropping Courses
• Exchanging Places with Another Student
• Registering for Individual Courses

General Information

• Students have to enrol in/register for the FEUP programme they were admitted to.

• In subsequent years, at the beginning of the academic year, they will have to register for courses within the established deadlines. Registering for a year/courses does not exempt students from choosing classes and timetables, and vice versa.

• Students will only be able to register for courses of a given programme year once they register for any mandatory courses they have not completed in preceding years.

  NB: Students from the Integrated Master in Electrical and Computer Engineering should read this information about precedences.

• Full-time students can register for a maximum of:

  60 ECTS (students who have been admitted via National Applications or via Special Applications for those 23 years or older and holders of technological specialization Diplomas);

  72 ECTS (all other students).

  Part-time students can register for courses up to a total of 37.5 ECTS (please see University of Porto's Regulations for Part-time Students). NB: Master's and Doctoral students registering exclusively for the Dissertation/Thesis (exceeding 37.5 ECTS) may also choose to enrol as part-time students (please see the rules).

Students who want to register as part-time students must expressly say so when they enrol/register at the beginning of the academic year.

University of Porto's Regulations for Part-time Students are not applicable to Advanced Studies, Specializations or Refresher Courses.

Students may only change from full-time to part-time study, or vice versa, when they register for a year (please see University of Porto's Regulations for Part-time Students).

• Tuition fees and insurance must be paid by the registration deadline (please see the information about Tuition Fees).

• Students should see the information about Special Statuses to check if they can benefit from any of the statuses granted to certain groups of students (e.g., working students). Statuses requested during registration or in the following 30 days are valid for the whole year; those valid only for the spring semester must be requested up to 30 days before it begins.
• Students who want to transfer credits, should see this information.

• If a programme's curriculum enables students to take courses from other programmes, they should see this information about registering for individual courses.

• Certificates for the following purposes can be obtained through the registration section of our online platform: scholarships, personal income tax returns, ADSE (healthcare for Portuguese civil servants), family allowance, medical assistance, military service, pensions, public transport passes, mobility process and residence permit for foreign students. Please print them out and take them to Academic Services to be authenticated, once you have paid your tuition fees. These certificates are free of charge, as noted in University of Porto's Table of Fees).

• To request other types of certificates, please see the information about Certificates/Declarations.

• If there are any problems with your registration, you must produce the “Boletim de Inscrição” (“Registration Information Sheet”). We therefore strongly advise you to print it out after you register or change your registration.

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2010/2011 Deadlines

Undergraduate and Integrated Masters Programmes

• National Applications

  Awaiting publication of the 2010/2011 Calendar in Diário da República (Official Gazette).

• Special Admissions – 15 to 21 September 2010

• Changes of Programme, Transfers and Readmissions

  Phase 1 – 2 to 6 July 2010
  Phase 2 – 16 to 21 September 2010
  

• Higher Education Graduates

  Phase 1 – 2 to 6 July 2010
  Phase 2 – 16 to 21 September 2010
  

• Special Applications – 13 to 17 September 2010

• Registering for a year (2nd and subsequent registrations) – 1 to 10 September 2010

Masters and Specialization Programmes

Phase 1 – 2 to 6 July 2010
Phase 2 – 16 to 21 September 2010

Registering for a year (2nd and subsequent registrations) – 1 to 10 September 2010

Doctoral and Advanced Studies Programmes

Doctoral and Advanced Studies programmes have overall deadlines, but there are specific deadlines applicable to some of them – please see the information about applications.

Doctoral programmes are subject to an enrolment fee of ¤100 (covered under item 17 of University of Porto's Table of Fees)

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2010/2011 Procedures

A notice will be posted on the FEUP homepage detailing enrolment/registration procedures. It will be available within the deadlines established for each application/admission process.

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Rules for Part-time Registration

Master's and Doctoral students registering exclusively for the Dissertation/Thesis (exceeding 37.5 ECTS) may choose to enrol as part-time students, in accordance with the following Rules:

a) Doctoral Programmes (Coordination Meeting of 30 October)

Part-time Registration

• Corresponds to a registration that does not exceed 37.5 ECTS.
• For theses, part-time registration corresponds to an extension of the time given for thesis preparation. Tuition fees must be paid for all academic years covered by this extension.
• The part-time registration tuition fee is, for academic year 2010/2011, 60% of the full-time tuition fee.

b) Stand-alone Masters Programmes (Coordination Meeting of 17 October)

Part-time Registration

• Corresponds to a registration that does not exceed 37.5 ECTS.
• For theses, part-time registration, whenever possible, corresponds to an extension of the time given for thesis preparation. Tuition fees must be paid for all academic years covered by this extension.
• For academic year 2010/2011, the part-time tuition fee corresponds to the minimum tuition fee amount (to be determined).
• Students are not allowed to switch to part-time registration if they are 37.5 ECTS (maximum) away from completing their programme.

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Adding/Dropping Courses

You can change the courses you have registered for, i.e., you can register for a new course and cancel the registration for another one, up to 30 days after the beginning of the semester the course corresponds to. Doctoral students need permission from their Scientific Committee to change the courses they have registered for.

• Adding/Dropping fall semester or annual courses: 14 September to 14 October 2010
• Adding/Dropping spring semester courses: 17 February to 17 March 2011

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Exchanging Places with Another Student

This process is applicable to students who have been admitted to our Undergraduate or Integrated Masters programmes through National Applications.

2010/2011 Procedure

Once they have enrolled/registered, students who meet the requirements established by Ministerial Order no. 478/2010, of 9 July, may request to exchange places with another student.

To do so, students must go to the Pre-Graduate Division and deliver the following up to 15 days after they enrol, as per Article 57 (3) of Ministerial Order no. 478/2010, of 9 July: a request form, in duplicate, with signatures either certified by a Notary Public or verifiable through ID cards. Requests must be accompanied by admission certificates for both applicants, issued by the Directorate-General for Higher Education.

This request is subject to the payment of fees, covered under item 15 of UP's Table of Fees.

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Registering for Individual Courses

Procedures

If a programme's curriculum enables students to register for courses from other programmes, they should go to Academic Services to deliver the following documents (this does not apply to FEUP students who register for courses from other FEUP programmes):

• UP's Internal Mobility Contract;
• a photocopy of their ID card.

UP students who want to register for courses not included in their programme's curriculum (multidisciplinary students), should go to Academic Services to deliver the following documents:

• a photocopy of their ID card;
• documentary evidence of their qualifications (certificate/academic background obtained through Sigarra);
• the request form.

After the request has been approved, students have 10 days to go to Academic Services, to register for the courses and pay the corresponding registration fees.

Non-UP students who want to register for courses (non-enrolled students), should go to Academic Services to deliver the following documents:

• a photocopy of their ID card;
• documentary evidence of their qualifications (certificate/curriculum);
• the request form.

After the request has been approved, students have 10 days to go to Academic Services, to register for the courses and pay the corresponding registration fees.

Numerus Clausus

Numerus Clausus for 2010/2011

Fees (for non-enrolled and multidisciplinary students)

Taking each individual course is subject to the payment of 1/5 of the corresponding programme's annual tuition fees (covered under items 13 and 14 of UP's Table of Fees).

NB: By decision of FEUP's Executive Committee, Undergraduate, Master's or Doctoral FEUP students who want to take individual courses from FEUP programmes or study cycles will have a reduction of 20% on the tuition fees to be paid when registering for the courses.

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