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The national access competition is a form of entry into public higher education.
Candidates who cumulatively meet the following conditions can apply for the competition:
These conditions are published annually in the Application Guide, available on the Direção Geral do Ensino Superior (DGES).
From 2022 onwards, national exams can be used as entrance tests in the year in which they are held, as well as in the following four years.
To be able to apply, the student must obtain an updated ENES form.
All exam tests taken in the 1st phase of the national final exams calendar can be used in applying for the 1st/2nd/3rd phases of the national competition for access to higher education.
All exam tests taken in the 2nd phase of the national final exams calendar can be used in applying for the 2nd/3rd phases of the national competition for access to higher education.
No. To apply online this year, you will have to request a new password. Once you have assigned the password to access the online application system, you can use it in any of the application phases.
Admission to each higher education establishment and course is subject to quantitative limitations, resulting from the number of vacancies fixed annually.
Vacations in each higher education establishment and course are filled by competition.
Vacancies in public higher education establishments, published in the Application Guide, are put out to competition through a national competition organized by the General Directorate of Higher Education.
Vacancies for some public higher education courses, given their specific characteristics, are put up for competition through local competitions, organized by the educational establishments themselves.
For example:
Each student can apply for a maximum of six institution/course pairs, that is, six institution/course combinations, which they will indicate in order of preference.
Students can freely change their application options within the deadline for submitting the application.
The national competition takes place at the end of the academic year and is organized in three phases, according to the annually approved calendar. Candidates may compete in various phases of the competition as long as they meet the conditions to do so.
The fixed vacancies are put up for competition in the 1st phase of the competition. In general terms, in the remaining phases there are vacancies that were not used by candidates placed and enrolled in the previous phase(s).
Only in the 1st phase, there are special quotas. If you do not obtain placement through this route, in the ranking process, you will still compete for places in the general contingent.
In the 2nd and 3rd phases there is only a single contingent.
The application for the National Access Competition is submitted through the online system, on the DGES portal.
Whenever the result of the review or complaint of a classification of a national secondary education exam is only known after the end of the application period, and it results in a change in the exam classification, the following will be permitted, up to 3 working days after the respective publication:
Prerequisites are conditions of a physical, functional or vocational nature that are particularly relevant for access to certain higher education courses.
It is up to each higher education establishment to decide whether application for any of its courses should be subject to the satisfaction of prerequisites and to establish its content.
Prerequisites may, depending on their nature, be eliminatory, intended for selection and ranking or just for ranking candidates.
A Proof of the prerequisites that require the completion of physical, functional or vocational aptitude tests (Groups C, G, I, K, M, P, R, V, and Y) is carried out through the Prerequisites Form, to be issued by the higher education institutions that carry them out, whose activation code will be used for the candidate to prove approval of the prerequisite at the time of application.
The satisfaction of prerequisites that do not require physical, functional or vocational aptitude tests and that are merely documentary evidence, they are delivered by candidates at the time of enrollment and enrollment in higher education, at the institution/course pair that requires them, if they are to be placed there, being an essential condition for enrollment and enrollment.
The prerequisites for Groups A, B, D, E, F, Q, U and X are in the situation indicated in the previous paragraph.
Yes. Higher education institutions require a minimum classification in the application grade. Only students whose application grade for that pair is equal to or higher than this minimum may apply for a given institution/course pair.
The minimum grades in the application grade that may be required for access to each institution/course pair are disclosed in the Public Higher Education Application Guide and in the Private Higher Education Application Guide.
The requirement for a minimum classification in the application grade is independent of the requirement for a minimum in the classification of the entrance tests.
The regime for access to higher education established by law applies equally to public higher education and private higher education.
Students wishing to enroll in a course at a private higher education establishment are, therefore, subject to the same rules to which candidates for public higher education are subject.
Vacancies are advertised on the DGES website, through the Application Guide - Private Higher Education.
Filling of vacancies is subject to an institutional competition, that is, a competition organized by each private higher education establishment.
Information and Public Relations Center of the Ministry of Education and Science:
Address: Av. 5 de Outubro, 107 r/c 1069-081 Lisbon
Telephone: +351 217 811 690
Fax: +351 217 978 020
Office for Access to Higher Education.
General Directorate of Education - National Examinations Jury
Address: Av. 24 de Julho, 140-6º, 1399-025 Lisbon
General Directorate of Higher Education - Directorate of Access to Higher Education Services
Address: Av. Duque D’Ávila, n.º 137, 1069-016 Lisbon
To obtain information about higher education courses, their study plans and the prerequisites required to access each of them, you should contact the higher education establishments directly.
