STUDENTS WHO HAVE BEGUN UNIVERSITY IN ANOTHER COUNTRY
If you have begun a university course in another country you should contact the Academic Administration Office (Gestió Acadèmica) in the faculty or centre you would like to attend and request a partial validation of credits for modules you have already completed abroad.
Faculties and teaching centres
When making the request you should present the following documents:
- Official form.
- Official certificate stating the level and type of your studies.
- Personal student record (with the grades for all the modules you've taken and passed).
- The programmes for all the modules you want to validate, with an original official university stamp.
- Programmes for modules to be validated with the programme content and number of classroom hours stated and with an official university stamp.
- Official birth certificate, stating your nationality. Alternatively, you may present a certificate issued by your country's consular services in Spain. If you have Spanish citizenship, you may present an official copy of your DNI. Many centres accept a passport as a certificate.
- Receipt for payment of public fees for validation.
All these documents must be official, must have been issued by the right authorities and must be authenticated in Spain. If they were issued in countries signatory to the Hague Convention, including all EU member states, they automatically have legal recognition in Spain. For those issued in other countries, including those signatory to the Andrés Bello convention, they must be authenticated by diplomatic means. The Ministry of Education and Culture website (in Spanish) provides a list of which countries have signed a convention with Spain.
If your documents are not issued in Spanish or Catalan you must provide an original and photocopy of an official translation into either of these two languages. Official translations can be provided by: sworn translators with official recognition by the Spanish or Catalan government; any Spanish diplomatic or consular representatives in another country; diplomatic or consular representatives in Spain working for the country by which the documents were issued.
If you are able to validate 60 credits or more, you will have direct access to university. If you validate only between 1 and 59 credits, you will have the same access as a person with an overall grade of 5.50 (out of 10). In this case, you must take your validation certificate to the Pre-Registration Office in Barcelona and apply for a place in that centre.
If nothing is validated for you, or you would like an overall grade higher than 5.50 (e.g. to get on a course that needs a higher grade), you will need to take the PAU.
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