Access and admission

Number of available places

In the upcoming admission period of the Master`s degree in Sustainability Science and Technologies, there are 40 study places available.

Specific admission requirements

Degrees

Students can get access to the Master's degree in Sustainability Science and Technologies, if they hold one of the following academic degrees:

• Bachelor degree in any engineering field
• Bachelor degree in the field of architecture or construction
• Bachelor degree in natural science or mathematics
• Master degree in any engineering field
• Master degree in architecture
• Master degree in natural science
• Higher engineering (pre EEES).
• Architecture (pre EEES).
• Degree (pre EEES) in the field of natural science and mathematics
• Technical engineering (pre EEES).
• Technical architecture (pre EEES).
• Bachelor or Master degree in any field of social science, economics and geography(*)

(*)Students holding a degree in any field of social science, economics or geography will have to do a complementary training, which will be defined personally by those responsible for the master, after a review of the applicant's academic records and a personal interview.

A complementary training will not be necessary for students holding a Bachelor or Master degree in fields of engineering, architecture, construction or natural science and mathematics, nor for applicants holding a degree (preEEES) in fields of engineering, architecture or natural science and mathematics.

IMPORTANT: Students holding more than one degree, have to select one for their application. The selected degree will be included in the assessment of the application, regarding the selection criteria.

Certificate of English proficiency at B2 level

In order to be admitted to the master programme, there is required a certificate of English proficiency at B2 level, in accordance with recognition requirements of languages at UPC. See this link, in order to find certificates valid at UPC.

For more information: General academic admission requirements for the access to University Masters of UPC.

Assessment and selection criteria

The academic commission will prioritize applicants, by means of a score for each candidate (from 0 to 14), calculated according to the following criteria (see this link for their weighting):

Pre-enrolment

Application for pre-enrolment

In order to enrol in a university master offered by UPC or in a Joint Master's coordinated by UPC, you have to proceed to the pre-enrolment for university masters.

Timetable

In order to see the key dates within the timetable of pre-enrolment, click here (only available in Catalan) .

Obligatory documents

Students from UPC centres:

• Curriculum vitae (free format, preferably standardised Europass).
• In case that the candidate passed a programme in knowledge fields related to the university master that he or she wants to apply for and that is different to the one that is supposed to give access, accreditation documentation has to be presented.

Students from UPC associated centres or from any university of Spain:

• Copy of DNI, NIE or passport
• Curriculum vitae (free format, preferably standardised Europass).
• University degree that qualifies for admission to the master or a provisional degree certificate.
• Official certificate of the academic record with all the subjects passed, the achieved grades, the number of credits/hour and a global average

Students from foreign universities of higher education:

• Copy of DNI, NIE or Passport
• Curriculum vitae (free format, preferably standardised Europass).
• University degree that qualifies for admission to the master or provisional degree certificate.
• If the degree is accredited by the Spanish Ministry of Education, the corresponding credential of accreditation has to be added. If the degree is not accredited, a document released by the university where the degree was obtained, or by a responsible authority of the country, has to be added. The document has to state that the degree has a standard period of study of at least three years and qualifies for postgraduate studies (Masters) in the country of origin.
• Official academic certificate released by the university, with all subjects passed, the achieved grades, the number of credits/hour, the global average and information about the applied grading system (grading scale and minimum grade of approval)

Optional documents (to evaluate the following criteria)

• Language certificates
• Letter of motivation
• Letters of recommendation

Procedure

• In the first step, the applicant  has to find out the key dates (only available in Catalan) relevant for the periods of pre-enrolment for this master
• In order to register for the application, a user name and a valid e-mail address have to be specified.
• Subsequently, you will receive a password to proceed to the application, where personal and academic data have to be introduced and the required documents have to be attached
• Once the data are introduced and the documents are attached, the application has to be sent online, in order to be evaluated academically and by the administration. During the admission process, the status of the application can be checked (see  “Status of your application ” at frequently asked questions about the application for pre-enrolment).
• An enrolment fee, covering the services concerning the procedures related to the pre-enrolment, has to be payed. The fee is charged for every pre-enrolment in a university master coordinated by UPC. If you have enrolled for more than one master programme, the fee has to be charged for every pre-enrolment. The fees cannot be refunded.
• You may change data of your application until the end of the pre-enrolment period, entering with the username and the assigned password. If you are interested in enrolling for more than one university master programme, it is not necessary to replicate the provided data.
• Once you have obtained the notification of your admission, you have to ACCEPT the application to the pre-enrolment and you have to make a payment of 300 €, according to the instructions, that you will receive as a handout via e-mail. This amount will be discounted from the total enrolment fees, once the enrolment is formalised, but if the enrolment will not be formalised, it cannot be refunded, unless the course will be cancelled.
• On the date fixed as the day of resolution, the applicant will get an e-mail informing about the resolution of the admission to the university master. The resolution can be checked also on the webpage used for the pre-enrolment. The received admission will be conditional, until the correctness of the academic data provided has been verified.
• With the letter of admission, students from outside the EU can begin the procedures concerning visas permitting residence in our country, in order to pass the university master programme.

Admissions 2017-18

To see the admissions for the academic course 2017-2018, click this link. (There are some applications for the double degree programme with MISCMeC which are still pending for admission, the resolution will be published at the beginning of September 2017.)