Expirations

After interrupting your studies for an academic year, you have to apply for Readmission within the deadlines established, in order to return to the UC and to your course.

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The Financing Law establishes the application of the expirations system to all 1st cycle students (including students in the 1st cycle of the Integrated Master's Degree) and therefore the Academic Regulation of the University of Coimbra (RAUC) establishes the expirations system in the University of Coimbra.

In accordance with the RAUC, the students who do not obtain a minimum number of ECTS credits in a given period of time are subject to expiration. However, there are some special situations that may have an impact on the period of time concerning the application of the expiration system.

The special situations must be submitted in the academic year to which they refer by means of a request to be submitted at InforEstudante.

The expirations system applies to Bachelor’s and Integrated Master's Degree students, if they have not obtained a Bachelor's Degree yet. If a registration in an academic year is detected concerning a student covered by the expiration system, the registration will be annulled.

At InforEstudante, the student always has information available about the risk of expiration. The part-time (or full-time) registration will only be possible in an academic year in which the expiration does not happen, and the student must manage his/her registrations according to his/her assessment in the curricular units.

If your registration expires, you are not allowed to register for two consecutive semesters for the cycle of studies you are attending or any other cycle of studies to which you intend to change.

After that academic year, you may apply to readmission. The readmission that takes place within the applications period established by the UC does not have the limitation of the number of places, and the registration calculation concerning expiration is restored to zero. In the academic year of the expiration, you can apply to attend isolated curricular units within the deadlines and according to the conditions established for that application. The awarding of credits to these isolated curricular units may be done after the readmission.

The registration only for one of the semesters is counted as 0.5 for the purposes of expiration.

After accomplishing the interruption of two semesters imposed by the expiration, a student can be readmitted without the limitation of the number of places and with the registration calculation restored to zero.