Integrated Master Degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences

Legislation

• Regulation of the International Student Statute
• Regulation of the Admission for International Students of the Universidade de Lisboa

Eligibility

This special call is for applicants who do not hold Portuguese nationality (article no. 3 of Decree-Law no. 62/2018, of 6th August, which amended and republished Decree-Law no. 36/2014).

The International Student statute does not apply to:
a) Nationals from a Member State of the European Union;
b) Family members of Portuguese or nationals of a Member State of the European Union, regardless of their nationality;
c) Those who are legally living in Portugal for more than two years, uninterruptedly, on the 1st of January of the year in which they intend to enrol in higher education, as well as their children who are legally living with them;
d) Those who are beneficiaries, on the 1st of January of the year in which they intend to enrol in higher education, of equal rights and duties status granted under an international treaty between the Portuguese State and the State of which they are a national;
e) Those who apply to enrol in higher education through the special access and admission regimes, regulated by Decree-Law no. 64 -A/2023, of 31st of July.

Requirements:

• Applicants should have a qualification which, in the country in which it was obtained, gives them the right to apply and be admitted to higher education in that country (this must be validated by the competent authority in the country where the qualification was obtained);
• Applicants should have a Portuguese secondary education diploma or a foreign legally equivalent qualification.

The equivalence between education systems is carried out based on the tables published by Portaria 224/2006, of March 8 and 699/2006, of July 12.

For additional information about the equivalence of non-Portuguese secondary courses, please consult the webpage of the Portuguese Directorate General for Higher Education.

Admission conditions:

1. Applicants should have academic qualifications in the areas of knowledge required for the study cycle theye 4^th article of the Regulation of the Admission for International Students of the Universidade de Lisboa.
2. Applicants are required to have knowledge of the Portuguese language.
3. Applicants from a foreign education system should prove the knowledge in the areas required at 1. based on specific legislation (article 20-A of Decreto-Lei n.º 296-A/98, regulated by Deliberação nº 974/2015).
4. When the above conditions can’t be matched, applicants must present documentation proving that the curricular components that they have include the knowledge covered by the admission exams.
5. The admission exams used must have been taken in the calendar year of the application or in the three calendar years prior to the application.

• The enrolment in any 1^st cycle or integrated master programme requires the level B2 of the Portuguese language (B2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages);
• The applicants who have only an intermediate level of proficiency in Portuguese (B1 level), may apply as long as they agree to enrol in an Annual Portuguese Language Course;
• The applicants who have not attended secondary education in Portuguese must present a “DEPLE” (Elementary Diploma of Portuguese as a Foreign Language) or a B1 level certificate issued by a ULisboa School or submit themselves to a Portuguese language and culture exam promoted by ULisboa. This exam is subject to the payment of a fee and shall take place according with the calendar published every year;
• The applicants who have not attended secondary education in Portuguese and do not present a “DIPLE” (Intermediate Diploma of Portuguese as a Foreign Language, B2 level) or a B2 level certificate issued by a ULisboa School have to enrol in an Annual Portuguese Language Course. The course can be attended during the first year of the degree program. At the end of the first year, the applicants should have achieved the B2 level of proficiency. Until the B2 level is not achieved, the applicants must re-enrol in the Portuguese language course until that level of proficiency is achieved.

Vacancies: 10 vacancies for the Integrated Master in Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Academic Year 2025/2026

1st Call: 10 Vacancies

• Application: from 2 January to 7 February 2025
• Results: until 7 March 2025
• Possible placement of substitutes: until 28 March 2025
• Remaining vacancies will be advertised: until 1 April 2025

2nd Call: Remaining vacancies

• Application: from 3 April to 23 May 2025
• Results: until 20 June 2025
• Possible placement of substitutes: until 11 July 2025
• Remaining vacancies will be advertised: until 14 July 2025

3rd Call: Remaining vacancies

• Application period: from 1 to 31 July 2025
• Publication of results: until 18 August 2025

Deadline for complaints – up to 10 days after the results are announced

Beginning of classes – September 2025

Aplication process:

1. Read the Call for Applications 2025/2026

2. Create user account on FenixEdu Portal:

• If you have never been a student at FFULisboa you must necessarily pre-register on the FenixEdu Portal;
• If you are a former student of FFULisboa and have already had a Campus/Edu student account, you must access the FenixEdu Portal and authenticate yourself with your account data.
• If you have lost access to your account, you can recover your password in the ULisboa users area.
• If you are a former student of FFULisboa and have never had a Campus/Edu account you should send an email to academicos@ff.ulisboa.pt indicating your full name and ID document number.

3. After creating the credentials, access the FenixEdu Portal (login);

4. After accessing the Fénix Platform, in the separate Candidate, choose the appropriate Application Type and fill in the requested fields:

• Integrated Master Degree (Call for International Student from Foreign Secondary Schools);
• Integrated Master Degree (Call for International Students from Foreign Higher Education Institutions).

5. Your application will be complete once you click on the Submit button.

The application is subject to a fee and is accompanied by the following documents:

Applicants from a Secondary Education Institution

1. Passport-size photograph in colour;
2. Copy of the Identification Card from the country of origin or Passport;
3. Sworn statement that the candidate does not hold Portuguese nationality (the document is in Portuguese);
4. Document proving completion of Portuguese secondary education or legally equivalent, or, in case the qualification does not correspond to Portuguese secondary education, document proving that the qualification provides access to higher education. The document must be validated by the country’s competent entity and must indicate the classification/grade scale;
5. Document proving approval in the entrance exams defined for the programme the candidate is applying to (Physics and Chemistry; Biology and Geology) or document that allows the candidate to prove that, during the academic training, passed the final exams/curricular components that integrate the knowledge covered by the entry exams mentioned above. The entrance exams must have been carried out in the calendar year or in the 3 calendar years prior to the application;
6. Declaration of Portuguese language proficiency level.

Applicants from a Higher Education Institution

1. Passport-size photograph in colour;
2. Identification Card from the Origin Country or Passport;
3. Sworn statement that the candidate does not hold Portuguese nationality (the document is in Portuguese);
4. Secondary education diploma legally equivalent to the Portuguese one, detailing the subjects/courses taken, as well as the national final exams in the terminal subjects from the secondary education considered homologous to the entrance exams required for the programme the candidate is applying to (Physics and Chemistry; Biology and Geology);
5. Certificate of enrolment in a higher education establishment. If you have attended a foreign higher education establishment, the certificate must state that the course is recognised as higher by the legislation of the country in question;
6. Certificate of the curricular units completed in the programme and institution of origin, with the corresponding credits (ECTS) and the grades obtained, explaining the grading scale used in the country of origin and indicating the provisional average to the nearest tenth.

Applications that are not accompanied by all the requested documents will be preliminarily rejected.

The documents listed must be issued by the competent authority in the country where the qualifications were obtained and when issued by institutions in non-EU countries, they must be legalised by a Portuguese consular agent or by the Hague Apostille with these legalisations being carried out in the country of origin of the documents. Whenever they are not issued in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish, they must be translated into one of these languages.

Enrolment and registration are carried out within the deadlines established in the FFULisboa Academic Deadlines Map.

• Application fee: 60,00 €
• Enrolment and registration fee: 25,00 €
• Tuition fee: 7.000,00 € /year

The enrolment and registration is only confirmed after a single payment corresponding to 30% of the total amount of the tuition fee plus the amount of the enrolment and registration fee.

The tuition fees are paid in several instalments.

The enrolment and registration fee is paid annually in the beginning of each academic year.

In case of withdrawal:

• The student doesn’t receive any return of the payments that were already made.
• When it is duly formalized, the student will only be released from the payment of the tuition fees that have not yet expired.

FFUL Tuition Fees 2024/2025 – International Students (Dispatch no. 15/2024)

Área Académica: academicos@ff.ulisboa.pt