Entry and admission

The Royal Decree 412/2014 of July 6, establishes the basic regulation for acceptance procedures to official university degrees and the acceptance procedures in the Spanish public universities. The following groups can access to the university degrees:

1. Students in possession of Baccalaureate diploma on the Spanish educational system or other declared equivalent.
2. Students in possession of European Bachelor diploma or the international Bachelor diploma.
3. Students in possession of certificates, diplomas or studies on the educational systems of the European Union Member States or on other States with which international agreements applicable in this respect have been subscribed, on a reciprocity basis.
4. Students in possession of certificates, diplomas or studies homologue to the Baccalaureate diploma of the Spanish educational system, obtained or performed in educational systems of States that are not members of the European Union with which there are no subscribed international agreements for the recognition of the Baccalaureate diploma on reciprocity basis.
5. Students in possession of the official diplomas of higher technical in vocational training, higher technician on plastic arts, design or higher sports technician, within the Spanish educational system or of certificates, diplomas and studies declared equivalent or homologue to these diplomas.
6. Students in possession of certificates, diplomas or studies, different from the equivalents to the Baccalaureate diplomas, higher technical in vocational training, higher technician on plastic arts, design or sports, obtained or performed on an European Union Member State or other States with which international agreements applicable in this respect have been subscribed, on a reciprocity basis, when the students meet the academic requirements of the Member States to access to their Universities.
7. People over 25 years old who pass the admission test.
8. People over 40 years old with work or professional experience related to the degree.
9. People over 45 years old who pass the admission test.
10. Students with a university degree on Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree or equivalent degrees.
11. Students with a university degree as a certified degree, technical architect, technical engineer, architect, engineer, corresponding to the previous ordination for university studies, or an equivalent degree.
12. Students who performed partial university studies, in Spain or abroad, or that after finishing the university studies abroad did not achieve the homologation in Spain and are willing to continue their studies in a Spanish University. In this case, it would be an essential requirement that the corresponding university transfers at least 30 ECTS credits.
13. Students who were able to access the university system according to the regulation on the Spanish educational system prior the Organic Law 8/2013, on December 9.

An entry profile will be considered in terms of knowledge, skills and initial abilities at a Baccalaureate or a vocational training level. In particular, the personal characteristics (sensibilities, skills, specific abilities, etc.) and the academic characteristics of those who are more suitable for the Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering are the following:

• Basic knowledges on the computer and IT use.
• Good mathematical skills, numeracy aptitude.
• Spatial conceptualisation.
• Abstraction, analysis and synthesis capability and logical reasoning.
• Curiosity, imagination, creativity, innovation.
• Perception and attention capacities.
• Sense of organisation and method.
• Attention to detail.
• Practicality and spatial vision.
• Basic skills on oral and written expression and reading comprehension in Spanish and Galician.
• Basic social skills for teamwork.

The means of admission are the general established by the University, being able to study the Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering all the graduated with the Baccalaureate diploma in any of its branches.

Access can be granted through the following certificates:

• Baccalaureate diploma and passing of the admission test for the university, according to the law 6/2001 of Universities (article 42).
• Certificate of Higher Education Training Cycle of the Aeronautical and Industrial Branch of Vocational Training (FP).
• University graduated in the branch of Engineering and Architecture.
• Admission tests for people over 25.

Number of entry level places by recognition of 30 ECTS: 2

• 1 place, from national studies.
• 1 places, from foreign studies.

All the information can be found at the CIUG website.

According to the Royal Decree 1393/2007, of October 29, which establishes the arrangements for official university teaching, the credit transfer should be understood as the university accepting that credits which have been obtained in formal education either in this same University or in a different one can be computed to different ones to achieve an official qualification. Moreover, credits earned in different official higher education or in university studies leading to the collection of other degrees, referred to in the article 34.1 in the Organic Law 6/2001, of December 21, on Universities, can be recognised.

The credit transfer and recognition from the Bachelor’s Degrees must comply with the following basic rules:

• As long as the degree to access belongs to the same branch of knowledge, a number of credit corresponding to at least the 15% of the total of credits in the degree, in the basic training subjects of the branch, can be recognised.
• As long as the degree to access belongs to the same branch of knowledge, the credits corresponding to the basic training subjects can be recognised.
• Can also be recognised the credits achieved in other basic training subjects belonging to the branch of knowledge of the degree to access.
• The University can recognise other credits taking into account the competences and knowledges associated to the other subjects studied, as well as the included in the study plan or that have a cross curricular nature.

 
Awards granted to the Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering *
* This details are merely informative. The corresponding committee is responsible for the credit recognition.

On the other hand, students can have recognised up to 6 ECTS credits for their participation in university cultural activities, sports, student representation, and solidarity or cooperation activities. These credits will be deducted from the total amount of subjects to take. The regulation for this type of credit recognition can be found in the following link.

Admission criteria for the places given to the 30 ECTS credits recognition

Students will be ranked according to the average mark of the recognised credits (only taking into account the 30 ECTS with best marks) multiplied by a correcting factor F depending on the source degree:

• F=1 if they come from a Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering or similar degree.
• F=0.9 if they come from any of the following Bachelor’s Degrees: Industrial, Telecommunications, Mining, Naval, Civil or Physics Engineering.
• F=0.8 for any other degrees.

If there is a tie, the person with more credits recognised will be selected. If there is still a tie, the selection will be made according to the academic record.