Academic Requirements

To be admitted to a postgraduate program, you must hold an official Spanish university degree or equivalent.

Online admission: when you apply for admission to the program you will have to upload the following scanned documentation: 

• Copy of your DNI.
• University degree or equivalent, or any other document that proves that you have a degree.

It is not necessary to provide the original documentation in verifiable digital format, nor in paper format.  

To access a postgraduate program, you must hold a university degree that qualifies you in your country for access to master's degree programs. 

Online admission: when you apply for admission to the program you must upload the following required documentation in a verifiable digital format (with a CSV or QR), or scanned:

• Photocopy of DNI, passport or NIE
• European Diploma Supplement (EDS)

Or:

• EEES undergraduate degree (minimum 180 ECTS credits), or equivalent to a Spanish bachelor's degree, diploma or engineering degree (minimum 3 academic years) and Academic record (where the academic years, courses taken, credits and grades obtained are recorded). 

The academic documentation (SET, university degree and transcript of records) must be in a verifiable digital format (with a CSV or QR) or in paper format. 

The documentation must be issued in Catalan, Spanish or English. Documentation issued in French, Italian or Portuguese can be translated at the Servei de Llengües of the UAB, at the expense of the interested person. In all other cases, a sworn translation into Catalan, Spanish or English must be attached.

To access a postgraduate program, you must hold a university degree that qualifies you in your country for access to master's degree programs. 

Online admission: when you apply for admission to the program you must upload the following required documentation in a verifiable digital format (with a CSV or QR), or scanned:   

• Photocopy of DNI, passport or NIE
• University degree equivalent to an EHEA degree (minimum 180 ECTS credits), or to a Spanish bachelor's degree, diploma or engineering degree (minimum 3 academic years).
• Academic transcript showing the period in academic years, subjects taken, credits earned and grades obtained.

The academic documentation (university degree and transcript) must be in verifiable digital format (with a CSV or QR) or in paper format. 

The documentation must be issued in Catalan, Spanish or English. Documentation issued in French, Italian or Portuguese can be translated at the Servei de Llengües of the UAB, at the expense of the interested person. In all other cases, a sworn translation into Catalan, Spanish or English must be attached.

More information about validating academic documents:

You must submit your university degree duly validated or legalized by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. Validation of a documents is based on the agreement subscribed between Spain and the issuing country:

• Countries which have subscribed The Hague Convention: all you need is for the documents to bear the Apostille of The Hague. The Hague Convention Member Countries
• All other countries: the documents must be stamped by all three:
  • Ministry of Education of the issuing country
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the issuing country
  • Spanish diplomatic authorities to that country (embassy, consulate, etc.)

If you still do not have your university degree (or comparable) but you plan to obtain it before the beginning of the UAB master's degree or graduate diploma you want to make, you can apply online now.

In order to do so, you will have to complete and sign the document for application without degree to the type of study you want to enrol in. Once you have completed and signed it, digitize it and be ready to upload it when doing the online application, in the section where the online application tool asks for the degree title.

• If you plan to enrol in a master’s degree:
  To apply for admission to a master’s degree, follow the instructions you will find in the "Admission" section of the master’s degree’s website. Upload the following document, filled, signed and digitalized, when you are asked for the degree title in the online application tool:
  Application form for admission with pending degree title: master’s degree.
• Failure to submit the degree title (prior to the start of the programme) will cause you to not be able to enrol in the master’s degree and your place will be lost.
  If you plan to enrol in a graduate diploma:
• To apply for admission to a graduate diploma, follow the instructions you will find in the "Admission" section of the diploma’s website. Upload the following document, filled, signed and digitalized, when you are asked for the degree title in the online application tool:
  Application form for enrolment with pending degree title: graduate diploma (document in Spanish).
  In case you fail to submit the degree title (prior to the start of the programme) you will still be able to enrol in the graduate diploma, but at the end of it you will be entitled to a certificate of achievement, not a title.

Please be reminded: you must submit the degree title or proof of payment before the start of the programme you choose and apply for. Do so at the User Support Office.

Exceptionally, in some specialisation diplomas and expert diplomas, access may be authorised for people without a university degree who can accredit professional experience with a level of competence equivalent to the university degree, by a procedure for the recognition of professional experience. In these cases, you will find the access requirements in the file for each of the lifelong learning programmes published on our website.