1st phase of application
(for national students, European Union citizens and residents in Portugal, and international students)

Application > March 18 – April 7, 2024
Publication of results > after April 20, 2024
Enrolment of admitted candidates > within 10 days after receiving the enrolment instructions

2nd phase of application
(for national students, European Union citizens and residents in Portugal, and international students)

The 2nd phase of application will only be available in courses with surplus places from the 1st phase.

Information on vacancies for the 2nd phase of applications will be posted on this page.

Application > May 13 – 24, 2024
Publication of results > after June 10, 2024
Enrolment of admitted candidates > within 10 days after receiving the enrolment instructions

3rd phase of application
(for national students, European Union citizens and residents in Portugal)

The 3rd phase of application will only be available in courses with surplus places from the 2nd phase.

Information on vacancies for the 2nd phase of applications will be posted on this page.

Application > June 21 – 27, 2024
Publication of results > after July 10, 2024
Enrolment of admitted candidates > within 10 days after receiving the enrolment instructions

The available positions for each of the courses, for admission in the 2024/2025 academic year are indicated below.

Master:

PhD:

Applications are made exclusively online through the Fenix platform.
For the presentation of the application, a non-refundable application fee is due:

• Application in the 1st phase: 40 EUR
• Application in the 2nd phase: 50 EUR
• Application in the 3rd phase: 60 EUR

Before you initiate your on-line application to the course please read carefully the instructions below. For questions regarding the submission of your application do not hesitate to contact the Faculty’s Academic Services

1. To make your online application, you must access the Fenix system and authenticate with the data of your Campus@ULisboa account. If you have lost access to your Campus@ULisboa account, you can make the recovery here
2. If you haven’t attended any course at Faculdade de Belas-Artes and have no Campus@ULisboa account, you must necessarily carry out a pre-registration in Fenix application here
3. After accessing the application, you must select the Applications tab. Next, you must create your application by choosing the regime and the course. After these steps, you must fill the requested data in the electronic form.
4. All the documents required for the application process must be attached in digital format.
5. The online application will become valid only after payment of the application fee. For that purpose, an ATM payment reference is made available (only usable under the portuguese banking system). It is also possible to make the payment by credit/debit card. If the payment is not made until the indicated deadline, the application will be canceled.
6. The non-submission of the required documents, or the incorrect presentation (e.g., Illegible document, not legalized foreign document, etc.) will invalidate the application. The candidate will be informed of this fact by the Fenix platform or by e-mail.
7. Errors or omissions in filling out the electronic application form, or in carrying out the application process, are the sole responsibility of the candidate.

After the ranking process, applicants will be informed by email of the final result of the application. In case of acceptance, it will be dependent on the presentation at the Academic Services of the original (or a legal copy) of the degree certificate, during the indicated period.

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The application process will include the following documents:

For Master courses:

• Certificate of the academic degree or equivalent (present the original at the Academic Services in case of admission);
• Transcript of records;
• Academic, scientific or professional curriculum (with copies of the documents to which it refers);
• Letter of application / motivation to the frequency of the course;
• Copy of identification document (passport, UE citizen card, etc.);
• Declaration, under oath, that the candidate is not a Portuguese national, and is not covered by any of the conditions which, according to the International Student Statute, doesn’t confer him the status of International Student (only for students who are covered by the International Student Statute)
• Portfolio*

*For masters in multimedia art, drawing, communication design, equipment design, painting and contemporary typographical and editorial practices, it is also necessary to present a portfolio. In the case of audiovisual records, the candidate may indicate in a specific area of the portfolio a link to a digital repository.

For PhD’s:

Legalization of foreign documents
If you have completed your degree/course abroad, and haven’t made any prior application for it’s registration, recognition or equivalence in Portugal, for the Mestrado application process it’s required the legalisation of your degree certificate under the Portuguese legislation. Authentic documents issued in a foreign country are considered legalized in Portugal as long as the signature of the public servent who issued it is recognized by a portuguese diplomatic or consular officer in that country and authenticated with the respective consular stamp. Similarly, if the country where the degree was obtained is a party of the Hague Convention of 5 October 1961 (Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents), you can alternatively authenticate the certificate by the Hague Apostille Convention.
Certificates issued in member countries of the European Union do not require legalization. 

If the documents are not in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish, they must be translated into one of these languages by a translator recognized by the Portuguese diplomatic representation in the country where the document was issued. Similarly, the following authorities can also carry out and certify translations: notaries; consulate in Portugal of the country where the document was issued and suitable translator; conservadores of any Conservatória; lawyers and solicitadores.

In the process of selection there’s an overall assessment of your application, subject to a numerical scale of 0 to 20 values, in which the following criteria will be considered:

1. Final rank of academic degree. In the case of academic degrees obtained in foreign higher education institutions (when the foreign higher education institution adopts a different scale from the Portuguese), the mark will be the result of the proportional conversion of the obtained grade to the Portuguese grading system;
2. Academic, scientific, technical and artistic curriculum and / or portfolio. 

Applicants will be ranked according to the score obtained in the evaluation, resulting from the simple arithmetic average of the classifications attributed to each of the selection criteria, and candidates who obtain a grade lower than 9.5 will be excluded from the selection procedure. The assessment parameters are described in Annex I to the Regulation of Graduate Studies of the Faculty of Fine Arts.

An interview can take place if the Course Coordinator considers necessary, in which case it will be included in the evaluation criteria indicated above. Candidates who do not attend the interview will be excluded from the selection procedure.

Admission and enrolment conditions
The admitted candidates must perform their enrolment and registration during the periods set out. At the time of registration and enrolment is mandatory the payment of the first instalment of the tuition fee (30% of the total annual tuition fee in the case of international students) along with the registration fee. In case of withdrawal of the course, duly formalized, the student is only relieved from paying the tuition fees’ instalments that have not expired. The payment made by the registration and enrolment is not refunded in case of withdrawal.
The issue by the Academic Services of the declaration of acceptance to the approved students in the application process, is subject to the payment of the above amounts. Placement in the course is only valid for the registration and enrolment in the academic year concerned in the application.

Other information for international students
Students who enrol in higher education under the Statute of the International Student (Decree-Law no. 36/2014 of 10 March) maintain the status of international student until the end of the course in which enrol initially or to which change afterwards. Exceptions to this provision are applied to international students who acquire the nationality of an EU Member State. In this situation, the termination of the application of international student status as a result of the acquisition of the nationality of an EU Member State takes effect in the academic year following the date of acquisition of nationality.

Consult here the Regulamento de Ingresso e Acesso para Estudantes Internacionais da Universidade de Lisboa.

Consult also the Universidade de Lisboa website, where you’ll find a comprehensive set of practical information (on accommodation, living costs, visas, etc.) for international students.