University of Lisbon (ULisboa) for international applicants: the 2027/2028 contest, requirements and fees

If you hold International Student status, you enter a ULisboa Licenciatura or Mestrado Integrado through the Concurso Especial para Estudantes Internacionais, and for ano letivo 2027/2028 its 1st phase takes applications from 4 January to 5 February 2027. Applicants from a European Union country are sent to the national contest, the Concurso Nacional de Acesso e Ingresso no Ensino Superior, instead.

ULisboa states that every student who does not meet the exclusion conditions of the International Student Statute can apply to a Licenciatura (1st cycle) or a Mestrado Integrado através do Concurso Especial para Estudantes Internacionais, the special contest for international students. The same ULisboa page for international applicants tells anyone coming from a European Union country to apply through the Concurso Nacional de Acesso e Ingresso no Ensino Superior, the contest that governs entry to Portuguese public universities.

Faculdade de Medicina Dentária, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

The University of Lisbon publishes two application phases for the international contest in ano letivo 2027/2028: the 1st phase runs from 4 January to 5 February 2027 and the 2nd phase from 5 April to 21 May 2027.

Schools that publish a minimum application mark set it themselves. Técnico sets 100 for each study cycle unless a course proposes a higher mark, and Medicine requires a final classification of at least 140.00. A minimum is a gate into the ranking, not the level of the applicants who are admitted.

ULisboa's central contest page asks for an independent command of Portuguese (nível B1) for every Licenciatura and Mestrado Integrado. For programmes taught only in English, it asks you to prove your level in the teaching language; Técnico sets English B1 for its Licenciaturas taught in English.

Fees are where the international route differs most. The ULisboa propina for national students in Licenciatura and Mestrado Integrado programmes in 2026/2027 is 697 €. International students pay a fee set School by School: the Instituto Superior Técnico lists 7000€/ano for its 1st and 2nd cycles, and the Faculty of Medicine sets €18,000 per academic year.

ULisboa describes itself as 1.º in Portugal in the main rankings it names (SCIMAGO, ARWU, NTU, CWUR, URAP and CWTS Leiden). This page does not list overall positions taken from the ranking publishers' own tables; the world positions below are the ones ULisboa reports about itself, and ULisboa does not name the edition of any of them.

Read the University of Lisbon's ranking claims as the university's own summary. On its rankings page ULisboa reports a world position of 138.ª in the SCIMAGO Ranking (Higher Education), together with 35.ª in Western Europe.

The same ULisboa page lists four world positions, each paired with first place in Portugal. None of them carries an edition year on the page, so check the publisher's current table before you quote one.

History: from 1288 to the merger

ULisboa traces its roots to the first Portuguese university, born in Lisbon in 1288 and moved to Coimbra in 1537. Higher studies returned to the capital from the end of the eighteenth century through courses, schools and institutes, which in 1911 and 1930 came together as the Universidade de Lisboa and the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa.

Today's University of Lisbon is the successor of both: ULisboa states that it results from the merger of the former Universidade Técnica de Lisboa and Universidade de Lisboa. That is why it works as a federation of Schools, and why admission rules, fees and exams on this page are often set by one School rather than by ULisboa as a whole.

ULisboa in numbers

ULisboa is made up of 18 Schools.

Alumni ULisboa names

Among its alumni, ULisboa lists Egas Moniz, the physician and neurosurgeon awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine; António Guterres, engineer, former Prime Minister and Secretary-General of the United Nations, a graduate of the Instituto Superior Técnico; and Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of the Republic, a graduate of the Faculdade de Direito.

At ULisboa you are an international student if you meet the conditions of article 3 of the International Student Statute (Estatuto do Estudante Internacional, EEI): in short, you do not hold Portuguese nationality and none of the exclusions applies, and the main exclusion is EU and EEA nationality. If you are international, ULisboa's central contest page says you enter a Licenciatura or Mestrado Integrado através do Concurso Especial para Estudantes Internacionais, the special contest for international students.

ULisboa's central contest page says the special contest covers students who do not hold Portuguese nationality, with exceptions. The Faculty of Medicine puts the starting point the same way: an international student is one who does not hold Portuguese nationality. The exclusions then remove most Europeans from the international route.

Who is excluded from the international contest

The ULisboa international contest page lists the exclusions in the statute. Nationals of an EU Member State or of a State party to the European Economic Area agreement are not international students.

Residence counts too. Under the ULisboa contest page, a non-EU national who has lived legally in Portugal for more than two years without interruption on 1 January of the year of entry is excluded. ISEG phrases the same rule as not having lived legally in Portugal for more than 2 years, continuously, on January 1st of the year of admission to ISEG. Holders of the statute of equal rights and duties under an international treaty with Portugal on that date are excluded as well.

ISEG and Técnico word the EU exclusion in their own way, so read the page of the School you apply to. ISEG requires that you do not hold Portuguese or an EU Member State nationality and that you are not a national of Iceland, Norway or Liechtenstein. Técnico says its contest is for students of a foreign nationality other than that of an EU Member State who hold a secondary diploma, and that it is not for students considered nationals.

Keeping the status until graduation

The Faculty of Medicine states that once you are admitted as an international student, the status stays with you until you finish the study cycle, even if you later obtain the statute of equal rights and duties. The exception is EU nationality: a student who acquires the nationality of an EU country during the course stops being an international student from the following academic year, which matters because international fees differ from national ones.

Brazilian applicants

ULisboa gives Brazilian nationals who completed ensino médio in Brazil a specific option: the central contest page says ENEM scores from the calendar year of application or from the three previous calendar years may be applicable. Técnico, ISEG, ISCSP, Law and Medicine set their own ENEM minimums, covered in the exams chapter.

If you come from an EU country, ULisboa tells you to apply through the Concurso Nacional de Acesso e Ingresso no Ensino Superior, the national contest run each year by the Direção-Geral do Ensino Superior (DGES), not through the international contest. Non-EU nationals who have lived legally in Portugal for more than two years without interruption on 1 January of the entry year are also outside the international contest. The national contest asks for a secondary diploma or legal equivalent and the national exams that match each programme's provas de ingresso.

ULisboa's international students page states that an applicant from an EU country who wants a 1st cycle or integrated master programme must apply through the Concurso Nacional de Acesso e Ingresso no Ensino Superior. The ULisboa page on the Concurso Nacional de Acesso adds a condition that closes the loop: you must not be covered by the International Student Statute. The two routes do not overlap.

How the national contest works

ULisboa describes the national contest as an annual application to public higher education organised by the Direção-Geral do Ensino Superior (DGES). A placement in a later phase automatically cancels the placement in the 1st phase, so applying again in the 2nd phase is a real decision.

• Hold a secondary course or a legally equivalent qualification.
• Take, or have taken, the national exams that correspond to the provas de ingresso required by each programme and institution, under the DGES rules.
• Reach, for each institution and programme pair, the minimum mark fixed in each prova de ingresso and in the nota de candidatura.
• Not be covered by the International Student Statute.

The University of Lisbon does not set one national-contest minimum for all programmes. ULisboa states that each institution fixes its minimum marks every year for each programme and that they are published in the Guia da Candidatura. The Faculdade de Direito, for example, asks for one of two pairs of provas de ingresso for Law: Filosofia e Português ou História e Português, from national exams taken in the last four years.

Taking part with a foreign EU diploma

ULisboa does not publish its own rule for how a secondary diploma from another EU school system stands in for the Portuguese national exams in the national contest. Its national-contest page points to the DGES rules for the provas de ingresso, so the equivalence of your diploma and exams is a DGES question, settled before you apply.

Last-admitted grades in the national contest

ULisboa does publish, on its national contest page, the places and the mark of the last admitted applicant (último colocado) in the 1st and 2nd phases for each programme. The page does not name the year of the table, and these marks belong to the national contest only: they are never cut-offs for the international contest.

Read the national table as context. In it, Medicina at the Faculty of Medicine shows a last admitted mark of 179.20 in the 1st phase, while Direito shows 153.00. A last admitted mark is the level of the weakest applicant placed in that phase, not a published minimum, and it moves from year to year.

For ano letivo 2027/2028, ULisboa runs the international contest in two phases: the 1st phase takes applications from 4 January to 5 February 2027 with results by 5 March 2027, and the 2nd phase from 5 April to 21 May 2027. Every selection and enrolment process must be finished by 30 September 2027.

The ULisboa central contest page publishes the 2027/2028 calendar. Each phase follows the same pattern: applications, validation and ranking, results, a deadline to pre-enrol or reserve your place, a possible call for substitutes, and then publication of any places left over.

ULisboa states that enrolment and registration follow the deadlines set by each School, so the reservation date in the rail is the last central date you can count on, and all selection and enrolment closes by 30 September 2027.

School calendars: what Técnico and ISEG published

The School pages still show their own calendars for the previous cycle. Técnico's page for Ano Letivo 2026/27 listed four phases, and its 1st phase took applications from 2 January to 6 February (17:00 WET) of 2026. ISEG's 1st call for 2026 ran from January 2nd to February 6th, 2026. These are 2026 dates for the 2026/2027 cycle; check the page of your School for its 2027/2028 dates before you apply.

Where and how you file the application

Applications are filed School by School. The Faculty of Medicine, for example, accepts applications exclusively online, through its FenixEdu application portal. Técnico charges its fee for each application (programme), so applying to two programmes means two applications.

Every route asks you to prove that your secondary qualification gives access to higher education where it was issued: the ULisboa central page says you must prove that your qualifications give access to higher education in your country of origin.

Application fee and place reservation

Técnico states that 2000€ is paid at place reservation and counts as the first two instalments of its 7000€/ano propina. The Faculdade de Medicina asks for 30% of the annual propina, €5,400.00, at pre-enrolment or place reservation, plus the enrolment fee, so budget for that payment in the weeks after your results.

ULisboa accepts a qualification that gives you the right to apply to and enter higher education in the country where you obtained it, provided you prove it, and then asks you to show the knowledge covered by the programme's provas de ingresso. For diplomas covered by the national homology rule, that proof is a homologous final exam listed in Deliberation no. 674/2025, such as IB Mathematics, GCE Mathematics A level, AP Calculus or European Schools Mathematics.

The ULisboa international contest page names two kinds of qualification that give access: a qualification that, in the country where it was obtained, gives the right to apply to and enter higher education there, which you must prove, and a Portuguese secondary diploma or a legally equivalent qualification. International students already in higher education, in Portugal or elsewhere, use transfer or change of programme instead.

How you prove the provas de ingresso from abroad

Every ULisboa programme has provas de ingresso, the entrance subjects a Portuguese student sits as national exams. How you prove the same knowledge depends on where your diploma comes from, and the Schools that publish their routes state them in their own words. The Faculdade de Direito, for its Licenciatura em Direito, lists them this way (page as of October 2026):

• Portuguese secondary diploma: the provas de ingresso of the entry year, Português e Filosofia ou Português e História.
• Systems covered by artigo 20.º-A do Decreto-Lei n.º 296-A/98: approval based on the homology of those provas.
• Other foreign courses: approval in the curricular components that cover the provas (Português e Filosofia ou Português e História).
• Brazilian ensino médio: an ENEM from the calendar year of application or the three previous ones, with at least 600 pontos in Ciências Humanas and in Linguagens.

The national rule behind the homologous exams is Deliberation no. 674/2025, of May 22nd, a table of the national higher-education access commission (CNAES) written for the access contests of 2025-2026 and hosted by ISEG. It states that, for holders of non-Portuguese courses legally equivalent to Portuguese secondary education, the provas de ingresso can be replaced by final exams of those courses. ISEG states that homologous exams are valid for 3 years.

For the science and Mathematics A provas used by Medicine and the sciences, the same Deliberação lists exams such as those below. For the Física e Química prova of the integrated Medicine programmes, it sets the mark as the arithmetic mean of the classifications of the two final exams. The European Baccalaureate appears under its school system, ESCOLAS EUROPEIAS. The table is national: check that your School programme asks for the prova you plan to cover.

ISEG's list of homologous Mathematics exams names no Polish matura. If your diploma is not in a School's list, ask the School which route applies; the Faculdade de Direito, for example, accepts approval in the curricular components that cover its provas.

School-specific rules: Medicine, ISEG and Law

The Faculty of Medicine sets its own IB route for the Mestrado Integrado em Medicina: an IB Diploma Programme with a secondary diploma and an overall average of at least 32.4 points, which Medicine equates to 140 on the Portuguese scale, plus Higher Level Biology and Chemistry passed with at least 10 points across the two (5+5 or 6+4). Holders of a Portuguese secondary diploma pass Medicine's three provas, 02-Biologia e Geologia; 07- Física e Química e 19-Matemática A. Medicine also asks for an academic qualification in Biologia, Física, Química e Matemática, and, for a Brazilian diploma, approval in the areas of Ciências da Natureza e suas Tecnologias and Matemática e suas Tecnologias.

ISEG states that the candidate must submit a homologated Mathematics test for its degrees taught in Portuguese and in English. For applicants from China, ISEG asks for a Gaokao or Linkao score of at least 50% of the provincial maximum and a minimum of 140 on the Portuguese scale.

The Faculdade de Direito asks for Português e Filosofia ou Português e História as its provas; the list above shows how a foreign diploma covers them.

Recognition and equivalence of your diploma

The Faculty of Medicine tells applicants whose secondary education does not fit its listed routes to contact the Direção Geral da Educação and request equivalence of their secondary education.

ULisboa Schools that publish their ranking rules set their own formula and minimum. The Faculdade de Letras sets a minimum application mark of 100, na escala de aprovação de 100 a 200, and Técnico sets 100 for each study cycle. ISEG admits only final grades of at least 14 (on a scale of 0 to 20), and Medicine requires 140.00.

The Schools below publish their own weights. The formulas and minimums below are what the School pages and editais say as of October 2026, mostly for the 2026/2027 cycle or undated, not confirmed rules for 2027/2028:

• ISEG, applicants with legal equivalent qualifications: the secondary average counts 50%, and the entrance exams or final exams of similar foreign education contribute 50%.
• ISEG, Brazilian and Chinese applicants: the final classification is equal to the grade obtained in ENEM or Gaokao/Linkao.
• Faculdade de Medicina Dentária: the secondary final mark weighs 50%, and a mark below 100 (escala de 0-200) in any component eliminates you.
• ISCSP: the prova de ingresso counts 60% and the interview 40% of the final classification.

A minimum is a gate into the ranking; whether you get a place depends on how many applicants rank above you. The Faculdade de Ciências sets 100 for each study cycle, and the Faculdade de Medicina Dentária sets 140 pontos (na escala de 0-200) for Medicina Dentária, 100 pontos for Higiene Oral and 100 pontos for Prótese Dentária.

Técnico: the CF formula and an optional interview

At Técnico the minimum application mark is 100 unless the course coordination proposes a higher mark. The coordination may choose to interview all candidates, scoring the interview (E) on a scale of 0 a 200; the final classification then becomes D = 0.3 × E + 0.7 × CF. Técnico does not admit candidates below 100, except applicants in a humanitarian emergency.

ISEG: half secondary average, half exams

At ISEG, the secondary final average, on a scale from 0 to 20, counts for 50% of the final classification, and the entrance or homologous exams make up the rest. ISEG admits only applicants whose final grade is at least 14 on that scale, and an online interview may be requested. For Brazilian and Chinese applicants, the ISEG final classification is equal to the grade obtained in ENEM or Gaokao/Linkao.

Medicine: intermediate mark, interview, two published formulas

The Faculty of Medicine first computes an intermediate classification (CI); for applicants with Portuguese secondary education it is CI = (0.5 x C) + (0.5 x PI). The 30 candidates with the highest CI are called to an interview (E), held by videoconference. Admission requires a final classification of at least 140.00.

Medicine publishes two different final formulas. The Medicine edital states CF = (0.6 x E) + (0.4 x CI), so the interview weighs more. The Medicine web page states CF = (0.6 x Classificação Intermédia) + (0.4 x Entrevista), so your academic record weighs more. Ask the Faculty which weighting applies in your cycle before you plan your preparation.

Ties, waiting lists and results

ISEG states that applicants who are not admitted because no places are left are included in a waiting list and may be called in order of ranking if admitted applicants withdraw.

If your diploma comes without valid final exams for the provas de ingresso, two ULisboa Schools run their own: Técnico offered Matemática, Físico-Química and Geometria Descritiva on 4 de maio de 2026 at 60€ per exam, and ISEG runs an in-person Mathematics Admission Exam with a minimum mark of 14 (13.5). Brazilian applicants can use ENEM instead, with minimums that Técnico, ISEG, ISCSP, Law and Medicine set themselves.

These exams replace the homologous exams covered in the diploma chapter; they are a School's offer, not a ULisboa-wide test. The latest dates published are those of the 2026/2027 cycle, so check your School's page for its 2027/2028 dates.

School pages name the provas de ingresso in their own words and numbering, so quote your School when you plan which exams to cover. The Faculdade de Medicina Dentária edital, for example, lists them this way:

Técnico exams for international Licenciatura applicants

Técnico offered Matemática, Físico-Química e Geometria Descritiva to international Licenciatura applicants without valid secondary final exams, if they wished, on 4 de maio de 2026. Registration ran through Connect from 20 a 29 de abril 2026 (17h WEST), the marks were published on 11 de maio, and the claims period ran from 12 a 14 de maio. You could take each exam em português ou inglês.

Técnico does not publish a separate pass mark for these exams; your application still has to reach the Técnico minimum application mark of 100.

The ISEG Mathematics Admission Exam

ISEG requires a homologous Mathematics exam for all its degrees, taught in Portuguese or in English (Matemática (obrigatória)). Candidates who do not submit one are automatically registered for the respective Mathematics Admission Exam, held in person. It is a written test marked out of 20 and lasting 120 minutes, on the Mathematics A content of Portuguese secondary education (10th, 11th and 12th grades).

• Minimum mark for the application to be considered: 14 (13.5).
• If you take the ISEG exam, you apply exclusively with the mark you obtain in this exam.
• The ISEG exam is valid for 3 academic years, and only at ISEG.

ENEM for Brazilian applicants

ULisboa lets Brazilian nationals who completed ensino médio in Brazil apply with ENEM scores, and the Schools that accept it set their own minimum and weighting. Read the ENEM minimum of the School you apply to, not a ULisboa-wide figure, because the numbers differ.

At Técnico the application mark is half the Natural Sciences (CNAT) and Mathematics (MAT) marks and half the mean of all ENEM marks, and for Engenharia Informática e de Computadores only MAT counts as the prova de ingresso. At ISEG the ENEM grade becomes the final classification itself. The Faculdade de Direito accepts an ENEM taken in the calendar year of application or the three previous ones.

SAT and ACT at ULisboa

The ULisboa central contest page and the Técnico, ISEG, Medicine and Law contest pages do not name the SAT or the ACT as an admission test. The SAT appears only in the national homologous-exam table, Deliberation no. 674/2025, as a United States (EUA) row listed under the Matemática prova (SAT EXAMS MATHEMATICS) and under the Matemática Aplicada às Ciências Sociais prova (SAT EXAMS MATHEMATICS), not under Matemática A. The ACT is not named. AP Calculus AB and BC are the US exams that ISEG lists for Mathematics.

The Faculty of Medicine uses an interview rather than an entrance exam: among its criteria, communication and critical thinking, knowledge of medical topics and ethics, and extracurricular activities each count for 25%.

For every ULisboa Licenciatura and Mestrado Integrado, the central contest page asks for an independent command of Portuguese (nível B1); for programmes taught only in English it asks you to prove your level in the language of teaching. Schools phrase their own rules: ISEG asks for at least B2 in the language of teaching, unless you come from a Portuguese- or English-speaking country, and the Faculdade de Medicina Dentária asks for Portuguese B2.

As of October 2026, ULisboa's Schools do not describe Portuguese B1 in a single way. The central contest page and the Faculdade de Direito call it an independent command (domínio independente), the Faculdade de Ciências and ISCSP call it an intermediate command (domínio intermédio, domínio intermédio), and the Faculdade de Letras writes língua portuguesa B1. The Faculdade de Medicina Dentária's edital asks for an independent command at nível B2.

How you prove Portuguese B1

Proof of Portuguese is set School by School. Técnico asks applicants who did not attend secondary education in Portuguese for apresentação de nível B1, and ISCSP's rule is not applicable to applicants who attended secondary education in Portuguese.

If you have not reached the level yet, the Faculty of Medicine has its students re-enrol in a Portuguese language course until they reach it, by the end of the 3rd year of the Mestrado Integrado em Medicina.

English for programmes taught in English

For programmes taught exclusively in English, the ULisboa central page says you must prove your level in the language of teaching and sends you to the School's website for details. Técnico asks for an English proficiency certificate at level B1 for its Licenciaturas taught in English.

The ULisboa central contest page and the Técnico, ISEG, Medicine and Law pages for first-cycle applicants name no TOEFL or IELTS score. The scores Técnico publishes, TOEFL iBT above 65 or IELTS above 5, apply to master's candidates whose mother tongue is not English, not to Licenciatura applicants.

School rules: ISEG, Medicine, Técnico and Law

ISEG requires an independent command of the language in which the degree is taught, at a minimum of level B2, and states that this does not apply to applicants from Portuguese- or English-speaking countries.

The Faculty of Medicine lists its programme language as Português / Inglês. Medicine applicants who attended secondary education in Portuguese or English present no language document at enrolment. Medicine students must reach Portuguese B1 by the end of the 3º ano of the Mestrado Integrado em Medicina.

Técnico expects B1 to be shown by the end of the year. The Faculdade de Direito applies its Portuguese B1 requirement only to applicants who did not attend secondary or médio education in Portuguese.

The international contest at ULisboa offers few places per programme: the central contest table lists, for example, 15 for Medicina and 5 for Engenharia Aeroespacial at Técnico, and the Faculdade de Direito lists 45 places in its Curso Geral for 2026/2027. The central table does not name its year.

Places are fixed each year by the Rector: the Faculty of Medicine's edital says the number is set annually by the Rector of ULisboa on the proposal of the Faculty's Director, and that 15 (quinze) vagas are available for Ano Letivo 2026/2027. A School page can therefore show a different figure from the central table.

Places at Medicine, Law, ISEG, Técnico and Architecture

The Faculty of Medicine publishes two figures. Its edital states that for Ano Letivo 2026/2027 15 places are available, fixed by the Rector on the proposal of the Faculty's Director; its web page lists 11 vagas. Confirm the current figure with the Faculty of Medicine before you apply.

The Faculdade de Direito lists, for 2026/2027, 45 places in the Curso Geral and 5 in the Curso Pós-Laboral (evening programme). ISEG shows its places per call, subject to confirmation: Economics 10 and Management 10 in each of its two calls, and Finance 5.

In the central table, Técnico lists 5 places each for Engenharia Aeroespacial and for its own integrated master in Arquitetura. The Faculdade de Arquitetura lists 26 places for its own Arquitetura Mestrado Integrado.

How competitive the international contest is

ULisboa does not publish the number of applications, admissions or the mark of the last admitted applicant for the international contest. The last-admitted marks on the ULisboa national contest page belong to the national contest for EU and Portuguese applicants and say nothing about the international route.

One signal does exist. The Faculdade de Direito announced that its second application phase would not take place because the places available had been fully taken in the first phase. With Law offering 45 general places in 2026/2027, the 1st phase is the one to aim for.

What happens to remaining places

The Faculty of Medicine says its 2nd phase places are A definir de acordo com as vagas sobrantes da 1ª fase, and ULisboa's central page closes all selection and enrolment for 2027/2028 by 30 September 2027.

ULisboa is made up of 18 Schools, and the central contest table lists their first-cycle programmes School by School: Licenciaturas (1st cycle) and Mestrados Integrados (1st and 2nd cycles). The clearest English-taught first-cycle options are ISEG's Management / Economics / Finance; elsewhere, plan to study in Portuguese.

ULisboa's first-cycle offer is chosen School by School: the central contest table lists each School's programmes with their places, length in semesters and propina.

Dereito ULisboa, Lisboa

Licenciatura or Integrated Master's

A Licenciatura is a 1st cycle degree, the equivalent of a BSc. An Integrated Master's (Mestrado Integrado) joins the 1st and 2nd cycles and ends with a master's degree. The central contest table gives the length in semesters per programme: 6 for Engenharia Aeroespacial at Técnico, 10 for the Faculdade de Arquitetura's Arquitetura Mestrado Integrado and 12 for the Mestrado Integrado em Medicina.

Degrees taught in English

ISEG, the School of economics and management, teaches three Licenciaturas in English: Management, Economics and Finance, alongside Gestão, Economia and MAEG in Portuguese. The central contest table also lists ISEG's Applied Mathematics for Economics and Management under its English name, with 2 places for international students.

The Faculty of Medicine lists the language of its Medicina programme as Português / Inglês. Técnico refers to Licenciaturas taught in English when it sets its English B1 requirement, but its international page does not list which ones; check each Técnico programme page before you apply.

How much teaching is in English

ULisboa states that 25% of its master's and 35% of its doctorates are taught fully or partly in English. For a first-cycle applicant, that means planning to study mainly in Portuguese unless you choose an English-taught degree.

The 18 Schools and where they are

ULisboa is made up of 18 Schools, and each one runs its own programmes, contest page and selection. Among them are the Faculdade de Medicina, the Faculdade de Direito, the Faculdade de Arquitetura, the Faculdade de Ciências, the Faculdade de Letras, the Faculdade de Medicina Dentária, ISEG and the Instituto Superior Técnico. Técnico teaches its Licenciaturas on two campuses, Alameda in Lisbon and Oeiras, where, for example, Engenharia Eletrónica runs.

These Schools set their own bar: Medicine requires a final classification of at least 140.00 and charges €18,000 a year, ISEG admits only final grades of at least 14 and lists a provisional 7,500.00€ for 2026/2027, Técnico charges 7000€/ano, and Law € 1,500.00. These are the latest published figures; none of them is labelled for 2027/2028.

Medicine (Mestrado Integrado em Medicina)

The Faculty of Medicine asks for an academic qualification in Biologia, Física, Química and Matemática. Holders of a Portuguese secondary diploma pass the provas 02-Biologia e Geologia; 07- Física e Química e 19-Matemática A; IB Diploma holders need an overall average of at least 32.4 points plus Higher Level Biology and Chemistry. Medicine also requires the Grupo A (Comunicação Interpessoal) prerequisite and an interview for the top-ranked candidates.

Medicine ran its own calendar in the 2026/2027 cycle. Its edital set the 1st phase applications in 2026 from 2 de janeiro a 6 de fevereiro, interviews from 9 a 13 de março and results on 17 de março. A later window took applications from 10 de agosto a 14 de agosto de 2026, with interviews from 31 de agosto a 10 de setembro de 2026. For ano letivo 2027/2028, the ULisboa central contest page gives the 1st phase as 4 January to 5 February 2027; Medicine's latest published edital is the 2026/2027 one, so check its page for 2027/2028 dates.

Engineering at Técnico

Técnico runs its international contest on its own calendar and offers its own exams in Matemática, Físico-Química and Geometria Descritiva for applicants without valid final exams. The Técnico propina for the 1st and 2nd cycles is 7000€/ano. Técnico teaches on two campuses, Alameda and Oeiras; Engenharia Aeroespacial, for example, is taught at Alameda.

Economics, Management and Finance at ISEG

ISEG teaches Management, Economics and Finance in English and Gestão, Economia and MAEG in Portuguese, and Mathematics is mandatory for all of them. You apply with a homologous Mathematics exam or sit the ISEG Mathematics exam, and ISEG admits only applicants whose final grade is at least 14 (on a scale of 0 to 20). ISEG's provisional fees for 2026/2027, subject to confirmation by ULisboa's statutory bodies, are an application fee of 60.00€, enrolment 50.00€ and tuition of 7,500.00€.

Law and Architecture

The Faculdade de Direito asks Portuguese-diploma holders for the provas Português e Filosofia or Português e História, and foreign applicants for homologous exams or curricular components in those subjects, together with Portuguese B1. Its propina for international students is € 1,500.00, with 10% paid at registration. Law's 1st phase in 2026 took applications from 2 de janeiro a 6 de fevereiro de 2026.

For Architecture, the ULisboa central contest table lists the Faculdade de Arquitetura's Arquitetura Mestrado Integrado with 26 places, 10 semesters and a propina of 7000.00€, in a table that does not name its year.

Programmes with pré-requisitos

Some ULisboa programmes add a pré-requisito, a fitness or aptitude condition separate from the exams. The central contest page lists Grupo A (Comunicação Interpessoal) for the Mestrado Integrado em Medicina and the Licenciatura em Ciências da Nutrição. At the Faculdade de Motricidade Humana (FMH), Ciências do Desporto requires Grupo C, Dança Grupo I and Gestão do Desporto Grupo E.

International students at ULisboa pay a propina set programme by programme, from € 1,500.00 a year for Law to €18,000.00 for Medicine, while national students pay 697 € in 2026/2027. ULisboa's General Council fixed the international propinas for 2026/2027, the latest published cycle; fees for 2027/2028 are not yet published.

The ULisboa General Council deliberation on propinas covers two different years for two groups: it fixes the propina for 2025/2026 for national students or those treated as national, and for 2026/2027 for international students. ULisboa states that the international propinas are those in the General Council deliberation and that each programme page shows its own figure.

The gap between Schools is large. The General Council deliberation on propinas covers 2025/2026 (ESTUDANTES NACIONAIS OU EQUIPARADOS) E 2026/2027 (ESTUDANTES INTERNACIONAIS): its national figures are for 2025/2026 and its international figures for 2026/2027. A separate ULisboa page states that the propina for Licenciaturas and Mestrados Integrados in 2026/2027 stays unchanged at 697 € for students who are not international.

How you pay the propina

Several Schools ask for a first block of the propina when you secure your place: Técnico 2000€ and the Faculdade de Medicina 30% of its annual propina.

• Faculdade de Medicina: 30% of the propina, €5,400.00, at pre-enrolment or place reservation, plus the enrolment fee.
• ISEG: 2,253.00€ towards the tuition fee at enrolment, plus registration fee and insurance; provisional fees for 2026/2027 also list application 60.00€, enrolment 50.00€ and insurance 2.10€.
• Técnico: 2000€ at place reservation, equal to the first two instalments.
• Faculdade de Direito: application € 60.00, enrolment and school insurance € 17.03, and 10% of the propina at registration.

ULisboa's scholarships page describes incentives so that its students of merit, may continue scientific or technological research projects: they are not entry scholarships for first-cycle international applicants.

The ULisboa scholarships page says the University intends to grant incentive scholarships by merit so that its students can continue their scientific or technological research projects. Plan your first year at ULisboa on the assumption that the propina and living costs are yours to cover.

ULisboa runs its own halls of residence, 16 according to its Portuguese housing page with mais de 1700 camas, but the places it describes setting aside each semester are for foreign students studying at the University under the Mobility Programs; for a full degree, plan for a private room.

ULisboa gives two different counts of its halls. The Portuguese housing page lists 16 university residences, 13 for students and 4 for professors and researchers. The English halls page says ULisboa has 20 residences in Lisbon.

ULisboa halls of residence: who gets a place

Every semester, the ULisboa Student Social Services set aside vacancies in the student halls for foreign students who study at the University under mobility programmes, and those students apply through the International Relations or Erasmus office of their School. ULisboa does not describe a separate hall route for international students enrolled in a full degree, so ask your School's international office about halls as soon as you are admitted.

The ULisboa halls are not free. The stay is subject to a monthly fee, which ULisboa sets each year.

Study visas and residence permits for non-EU students are issued by the Portuguese authorities, not by ULisboa. Once your School has admitted you, check the Portuguese embassy or consulate in your country for the rules that apply to entry in autumn 2027.

For the 2027/2028 1st phase, results come by 5 March 2027, which leaves the spring and summer for the visa; start as soon as your School admits you, because ULisboa closes all selection and enrolment by 30 September 2027.

ULisboa suits non-EU applicants who qualify for the Concurso Especial para Estudantes Internacionais, can meet their School's exam and language rules, and can pay an international propina that, in the latest published figures, runs from € 1,500.00 in Law to €18,000.00 a year in Medicine. For ano letivo 2027/2028 the 1.ª fase of the international contest runs from 4 January to 5 February 2027.

ULisboa's central contest page says that every student who does not meet the exclusion conditions of the Estatuto de Estudante Internacional can apply to Licenciatura and Mestrado Integrado programmes through the Concurso Especial para Estudantes Internacionais. EU citizens are excluded from that status: ULisboa tells applicants from an EU country to apply through the Concurso Nacional de Acesso instead.

Who ULisboa suits, and who it does not

The Schools that publish a ranking formula set their own: ISEG weighs your secondary average at 50% and your exams make up the rest, and Técnico sets a minimum application mark of 100. ULisboa rewards applicants whose final-year marks and exams in the programme's own subjects are strong.

Language is the second filter at ULisboa. The central contest page asks for Portuguese at B1 for every Licenciatura and Mestrado Integrado, and for programmes taught only in English you prove the level of the teaching language; individual Schools phrase their own level, so read your School's rule.

Two ULisboa Schools set a high bar. Medicine's edital for ano letivo 2026/2027, the latest published, interviews the 30 candidates with the highest intermediate classification and makes a final classification of at least 140.00 a condition of admission. ISEG admits only applicants whose final grade is 14 (on a scale of 0 to 20) or higher. Both figures are gates for admission, not the level of the students admitted.

The fee is set School by School, so budget for your School's figure: Técnico, for example, collects 2000€ of its annual fee when you reserve your place.

Next steps for ano letivo 2027/2028

ULisboa's central contest page already dates the 2027/2028 international contest. Aim for the 1.ª fase and keep the 2.ª fase as your second chance.

What ULisboa has not yet published for 2027/2028

For 2027/2028 ULisboa has published the contest calendar above; fees, School calendars and places still carry earlier years.

• Fees: ULisboa's propinas deliberation fixes the fees for international students for 2026/2027 and for national students for 2025/2026.
• School calendars: Técnico's international page still shows its Ano Letivo 2026/27 calendar, whose 1.ª fase applications ran from 2 January to 6 February 2026.
• Places: the Faculdade de Direito lists the places available in 2026/2027, 45 in the Curso Geral and 5 in the Curso Pós-Laboral; ULisboa's central table of places and propina per programme names no year.

Until ULisboa publishes the 2027/2028 figures, treat the 2026/2027 numbers as the latest published and check your School's page again before the 1.ª fase opens on 4 January 2027.

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