Admissions: Porto School of Engineering

Online application, using the national exam grades required as entrance exams. Each applicant lists up to 6 institution/degree pairs, in order of preference, and is placed in the first one their application grade qualifies for.

• Access: a password certified at the secondary school or at a higher education access office, or login with the Cartão de Cidadão or Chave Móvel Digital.
• The degree's minimum grades and pré-requisitos: Entrance exams and formula, from the Guia de Candidatura 2026.
• One placement per round. A placement in a later round cancels the earlier one.

The contest is run by the Instituto para o Ensino Superior (IES), which succeeded DGES in 2026.

For applicants with international student status. Portuguese and EU applicants go through the Concurso Nacional de Acesso. Applications on the Domus platform of the Universidade Técnica do Porto (formerly Politécnico do Porto), in three phases; the 2027/28 dates have not been published yet.

• Portuguese entrance exams, equivalent foreign final exams, ENEM (minimum 475 per test) or an official document giving access to higher education in the home country
• Portuguese at B2 (for Computer Engineering, Portuguese or English)
• Ranking by the qualification's grade; plus 1 point for residents in Portugal

Application fee 100€; tuition 4,500€ a year (half for CPLP nationals) in 2026/27. Dates and places in the call.