Registration and enrollment are not the same things. Registration turns an applicant into an Iscte student but does not by itself grant the right to attend a course. The student, once registered, has to enroll in order to attend the curricular units of his or her course, meaning that enrollment should be done in each academic year.

Enrollment fee: for enrollment in any course at Iscte, a fee must be paid, according to the rules established in the Fee Table in effect.

Tuition [important to remember]: Whenever there is a place for an enrollment, it is produced by tuition! This means that, even if the student does not attend classes, if he or she does not formalize a request of withdrawal and fulfill the terms of this request, he or she is the debtor for the tuition and respective interest generated when he or she defaults. The references for payment by cash are created immediately upon enrollment, becoming available on the student page on FÉNIX – note that the first tuition payment is joined with the enrollment fee.

Concepts to remember:

• Registration: the formal act by which the student enters (or re-enters after interruption or lapse in attendance) into a study programme at the university, acquiring the right to enrollment in one of its courses.
• Enrollment: the act that enables the student, after registration, to attend curricular units.
• Curricular Unit: teaching unit with its own learning goals that requires administrative enrollment and evaluation reflected in a final grade. Curricular units can be:
• Compulsory: fundamental ("core") curricular units of a given study programme that are mandatory for the completion of an academic degree; they cannot be substituted with other curricular units. Elective: curricular units that the student can choose, as opposed to compulsory units, but whose credits count towards the obtaining of an academic degree.