You should not register for an academic year without completing the previous one. Therefore, you have to wait for the registration and the exam, and only after the release of the grade at Inforestudante, you may register for the subsequent academic year.

You will be automatically notified of the new registration deadline by email. Meanwhile, you may register, even on a provisional basis, for the practical classes of the curricular units you want to attend in the new academic year.

However, if you are not registered, then you do not have a special situation or status entered in the system, which means that you cannot benefit automatically from that situation at InforEstudante. You should contact the services of your Faculty regarding this situation.

You should wait for the release of the grades since you can only register after all the grades have been released by the Professors and accepted by the Academic Management Services (SGA).

If this happens after the end of the normal registration deadline, you will receive a reminder (by email message) informing that you must formalise your registration within the following 7 days. This will be your normal deadline, and you only be subject to penalties beyond its end.

Check also the question: How to register beyond the normal deadline?

No, because the delay does not depend on the student.

(Check the previous question)

No, you cannot. You can only register for the subsequent academic year:

1) after making all the payments concerning the previous academic year; or
2) if you have requested an agreement for paying late tuition fees and it has already been accepted

The students who are entitled to this agreement may request it at InforEstudante by selecting the request type “Payment plan for tuition fee debt settlement” in the menu “Academic Service » Requests”.

Further information at

Frequently Asked Questions about “Tuition fee, Fees and other Charges” »

Yes, if you are not carrying out an enrolment (that is, a registration resulting from an application to the UC).

The Identification Document is validated in two crucial moments:

• until the end of the civil year of the enrolment (check information at http://www.uc.pt/en/academicos/inscricoes/PIAs);

• at the moment of issuance of a certification document, including the diploma.

The registration limits and the rules for curricular year transition are established by each Faculty in accordance with the Academic Regulation of the UC, and they cannot be exceeded.

• There may be occasional situations of adjustments to that limits (in order to accommodate the changes in ECTS credits of some optional curricular units provided in the current academic year) or other exceptional situations.
• If this is not your case, your situation must be subject to an appraisal, which means you can go to the Academic Centres in order to obtain information or send your request by email using the Online E-mail Form | Académicos UC.

In order to seal your registration and finish it, you have to remove curricular units until the total number of ECTS credits falls to the limits that are applied to you.

Check further information at http://www.uc.pt/en/academicos/inscricoes/limites.

Yes, you can. Students may opt to make a semester registration by choosing only curricular units of the 1st or only of the 2nd semester. However, the registration is always carried out at the beginning of the academic year.

• In this case, you only pay 50 per cent of the total amount of the tuition fee.

As a matter of course, you can register for optional curricular units beyond the ones required to complete the course, provided that you do not exceed the limit of registration ECTS credits established for your course. Nevertheless, this is an option that depends on the course and Faculty you attend.

• Please note that ALL the curricular units you complete in your course will account for the calculation of the final grade.

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.

For further information, check the webpage of Applications.

All students who complete a Bachelor’s Degree at the UC (1st Cycle) have to apply to the Master’s Degree (2nd Cycle), even if it is a Continuity Master’s Degree Course.

Check the deadlines on the website of Applications.

The concept of freezing/suspending enrolment does not exist, but the concept of withdrawing exists. If you do not register for a certain academic year, your enrolment will be considered interrupted.

• If you withdraw during a certain academic year, you can register normally for the subsequent academic year.
• If after interrupting your studies, you are more than one academic year without registering, when you want to return to your studies you have to apply for Readmission within the deadline that will be established.

No. The annulment takes place only according to situations provided for by the Law. What the student will be able to do is withdrawing his/her registration.

Regarding the cycles of studies (Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD Degree Courses), if the withdrawal takes place within the deadlines established, published and disseminated to the Students in the beginning of each academic year, you will be exempt from paying the subsequent tuition fee instalments.

• Check the webpage referring to these deadlines at

  http://www.uc.pt/en/academicos/regulamentos/prazos

The change in your registration can be carried out by means of InforEstudante without paying any fee within the deadlines established by the Academic Management Services (SGA) at

http://www.uc.pt/en/academicos/regulamentos/prazos

The registration deadlines for the practical classes are published by the Faculties or the departments regarding the Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FCTUC), and they are also responsible for the management of the schedules.

• You may also check them at Inforestud@nte in the option “ACADEMIC SERVICE » REGISTRATIONS CLASSES”. If they are not established yet, please consult the Students Assistance Services at your department or faculty.