Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) for international applicants: entry in autumn 2027

Students with a foreign school diploma normally enter the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) through an accreditation issued by UNED, and UAM says they must apply for the UNEDasiss accreditation before they apply for a Grado. The admission mark runs up to 14 points, and Spanish at level B2 or above is required if both your nationality and your school system are from non-Spanish-speaking countries.

The latest pre-registration calendar on the UAM page is the 2026 call: the window for foreign-system applicants with the UNEDasiss accreditation was set from 5 June to 6 July, the end date pending a national resolution. The 2027 dates were not on the page at the time of checking, so follow the calendar page before you plan your entry for autumn 2027.

UAM DERECHO

Fees depend on nationality and residence. The Derecho page gives an approximate course price in first enrolment of 1015 €, or 6823 € at the higher rate, as of October 2026. UAM's price sheet for foreign students applies the higher rate to other nationalities without residence; residents, EU and Moroccan nationals and those under the Community scheme pay the lower one.

A pre-registration submitted late is not accepted: no pre-registration is accepted outside the period.

UAM is a public university in Madrid, and it offers Grados, double degrees and joint degrees.

The admission page for foreign applicants presents the university as offering a wide range of Grados, double degrees and joint degrees. Teaching in the Grados profiled in this guide is in Spanish, some with a few subjects in English, so check the Spanish requirement in the language chapter below.

UAM is one of the public universities of the Distrito Único de Madrid, the shared Madrid admission area; its pre-registration calendar is common to those universities, and the admission procedure for foreign applicants on this page is the one UAM publishes.

The route depends on your education system: Bachillerato titles from EU or reciprocity systems, the IB and the European Baccalaureate go through UNEDasiss if you meet the university-access requirements of your own system, while systems without a reciprocity agreement start with homologation.

If your diploma is on the reciprocity list but you do not meet the access requirements of your own system, you are treated like the second group.

Applying early from abroad is also possible through the Early Admission process, open to IB Diploma holders, the European Baccalaureate and EU or reciprocity-country diplomas that give university access there; see the Early Admission chapter.

On the EU, IB, European Baccalaureate and reciprocity route, UNEDasiss is the first step: the accreditation recognises access to university without entrance exams.

The accreditation is issued by the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), not by UAM. After you hold it, you still have a step to take: pre-registration within the set deadline.

Provisional accreditation

If you can only present a provisional accreditation, admission is provisional: the final admission mark must equal or exceed the mark of the last admitted student in that Grado.

UAM lists the education systems on the EU and reciprocity route, among them the IB, the European Baccalaureate and the systems of Poland, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, provided students meet their own system's university-access requirements.

The full list on the page names many more countries; the page also links a country-by-country simulator of the documents needed in each case.

If your system has no reciprocity agreement, the first compulsory step is homologation: you request homologation of your pre-university studies to the Spanish Bachiller title through the Ministry.

The minimum admission requirement is then the accreditation of a Modalidad de Bachillerato. Students who do not meet it, or who hold only the Ministry homologation, can take places left unfilled after the ordinary and extraordinary allocations, under the Madrid District agreement for 2024-2025 cited on the page. The admission calendar on the UAM site also lists them in the extraordinary call, for the last allocation of places.

The admission mark has a ceiling: up to 4 extra points can bring it to a maximum of 14.

For the EU and reciprocity route, the accreditation itself carries a grade that UNEDasiss recognises from equivalences with your home system; the three ways to add points are the PCE and recognised subjects from your home system (only for some systems; check with UNED), plus the voluntary phase of the PAU.

UAM BIBLIOTECA

Formula without a reciprocity agreement

For systems without an agreement, the access mark is 60% accredited Bachillerato-equivalent studies plus PCE marks weighted 0.1, and the admission mark adds the 2 best PCE that weigh for the requested Grado.

The PCE are the UNEDasiss specific-competence tests, and the UAM weighting table gives some subjects a higher weighting factor (0.2), depending on the Grado.

Check the UAM weighting table for your Grado before choosing PCE subjects. PCE, recognised subjects and PAU optional subjects stay valid for three academic years, after which they expire and no longer count for the admission mark.

Each programme page profiled in this guide links its weighting table; this guide does not reproduce the tables.

Applicants of non-Spanish-speaking nationality coming from a non-Spanish system must show Spanish at level B2 or above, and the rule currently applies to all Grados offered by UAM, except Fisioterapia at the affiliated centre La Salle.

The level can be included in the UNED accreditation or shown by certificate: DELE, SIELE, Escuela Oficial de Idiomas or a Distrito Único de Madrid language-centre certificate can be submitted with the application. Any other proof of the level must be recognised in the UNEDasiss accreditation.

UAM runs a preparation course called Puente a la UAM and acts as a SIELE examination centre, according to the admission page.

Some Grados need at least B2 English at pre-registration, on top of the cut-off mark.

The Grados with this requirement are Economía y Finanzas / Economics and Finance, Análisis de Datos en la Empresa / Business Analytics and the bilingual groups of Economía and Química. None of the five Grados profiled in this guide appears on that list.

Holders of a foreign qualification taught in English and nationals of an English-speaking country are exempt.

UAM prints a cut-off mark on each programme page, a mark out of 14 points: 12.950 for Medicina and 9.880 for Derecho in the 2026-2027 course.

A cut-off is the mark of the last person admitted in the previous process, not a threshold set in advance. UAM warns that for a Grado in high demand, the mark needed for a place can be high.

For the 2025-2026 course, the English Ingeniería Informática page also lists a separate figure for the Programa Académico en Ingeniería Informática: 11.711.

Medicina offers 240 places, Psicología 350 and Ingeniería Informática 81, according to the programme pages.

The programme pages give one number of places per Grado, with no separate figure for international applicants.

In the 2026 call, foreign-system applicants with the UNEDasiss accreditation could pre-register from 5 June to 6 July (end date pending a national resolution), a longer window than the general one.

The 2027 call had not been published on the page when it was checked in October 2026. Late applications are not accepted, even if your documents are not ready: the page says to apply within the window and, if documents are missing for reasons beyond your control, to submit them during the claims period.

Early Admission is a separate process for international applicants; the last call ran from 15 December 2025 to 26 February 2026 and is closed.

It is open to holders of an IB Diploma, of the European Baccalaureate and of a Bachillerato or equivalent from an EU or reciprocity country if you meet that country's university-access requirements, and you must prove personal and family residence outside Spain.

UAM ECONOMICAS

The fee is 70 euros per Grado applied for, and it is not refunded in any case. The assessment can look at the average of the academic record (or partial marks if the student is still in the Bachillerato), the access mark if already held, and marks in subjects related to the Grado. These details are from the page of the last call, which is closed.

The international double degrees of the Facultad de Derecho need a pre-admission process in addition to the general pre-registration.

The page names the Sciences Po Bordeaux double degree in Political Science, the Strasbourg double degree in Law and the Maastricht double degree in Law. After the Faculty process, you still request the Derecho or Ciencia Política y Administración Pública Grado in the general process and must reach its cut-off mark.

Under the Comunidad de Madrid price decree, its public universities charge fourth-enrolment prices to foreign students without resident status, EU nationals excluded, as are those under the Community scheme (régimen comunitario); UAM's price sheet also gives Moroccan nationals the lower price, and a student stay permit does not count as residence.

The credit prices exclude file-opening fees, secretariat costs and insurance.

Price per credit

The foreign-student price sheet, which carries no date, lists for first enrolment 136.44 euros per credit at level 1, 128.57 euros at level 2 and 113.71 euros at level 3 of experimentality for students of other nationalities.

UAM suits applicants who can work in Spanish: B2 Spanish is required unless your nationality or your school system is Spanish-speaking, and the main entry task is the UNEDasiss accreditation.

Start with the accreditation (homologation first if your system has no reciprocity agreement), then, if you want to raise your mark, pick PCE subjects that carry the higher weighting factor (0.2) for your Grado, and check the 2027 calendar when UAM publishes it. If you pay the higher rate (other nationalities without residence), budget for about 6823 € for the first-enrolment year in Derecho, Psicología or ADE, the approximate programme-page price.

Official pages of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, UCAS, gov.uk and the ranking publishers. Applicant reports, where shown, are self-reported and labelled.

https://www.uam.es/uam/en/admision-sistemas-educativos-extranjeros · https://www.uam.es/ssdlv/Satellite?c=Page&cid=1607042039058&pagename=UAM-R%2FPage%2FBASE_Modular · https://www.uam.es/uam/en/admision-grado/early-admission · https://www.uam.es/uam/medicina · https://www.uam.es/uam/derecho · https://www.uam.es/ssdlv/Satellite?c=Page&cid=1607042039608&pagename=UAM-R%2FPage%2FBASE_Modular · https://www.uam.es/uam/psicologia · https://www.uam.es/uam/ade · https://www.uam.es/uam/en/informatica · https://www.uam.es/uam/media/doc/1606853272499/precios-para-estudiantes-extranjeros.pdf

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