General information on supplementary training requirements for degree recognition
- General information
- Regulations on the carrying out of supplementary training requirements prior to the recognition of foreign higher education degrees (PDF document)
- Application form to receive information on supplementary educational requirements (PDF document)
- Application form to register for completion of supplementary training requirements (PDF document)
General information on supplementary training requirements for degree recognition
This information addresses Spanish or foreign graduates holding a degree awarded by a non-Spanish university and whose university studies have not been recognised by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (hereinafter, MEC) because they have not been considered to be equivalent to the Spanish degrees of diplomado universitario, arquitecto técnico, ingeniero técnico, licenciado, arquitecto, ingeniero and doctor. These students shall have to complete a series of supplementary training requirements on those subject matters in which, according to the MEC, the students show training deficiencies.
Registration and fees
Upon issuance of the corresponding decision by the MEC, the candidates interested in sitting this exam at the Universitat Jaume I shall have to request information on the training requirements indicated by the MEC by submitting an application form to the corresponding centre prior to their registration.
The following documents must be presented at the Registry Office in the Rectorate Building.
- Application form to register for completion (PDF) of supplementary training requirements, addressed to the Dean’s Office/School Director’s Office where the degree subject to recognition is taught.
- Photocopy of national ID card or passport
- Photocopy of the MEC’s decision on completion of supplementary training requirements
- Photocopy of a certificate indicating the supplementary training requirements completed at another university, where appropriate
Within 15 days upon receipt of the documents, the centre shall inform the candidate and the Teaching and Student Office (SGDE) the reply to the information requested.
If the candidate agrees with the report issued, he/she shall address the SGDE to submit an application form to register for the supplementary training requirements (PDF) indicated in the report issued by the centre, and shall pay the corresponding fees, which according to the annual fee decree, are 117.77 euros this year, payable in one installment (except for the supervised course, whose fee is 13.46 euros per credit registered).
Addresses of interest
Validations Unit. Rectorate Building. Tel.: +34 964 728846 / 47
Facutly of Legal and Economic Sciences. Tel.: +34 964 725826
fcje@uji.es
Faculty of Human and Social Sciences. Tel.: +34 964 729816
fchs@uji.es
School Director’s Office. Tel.: +34 964 729051
escte@uji.es
Legislation
- Eigth additional provision of Royal Decree 1393/2007, of 29 October, modifying Royal Decree 285/2004 regulating the conditions the conditions for recognition and validation of foreign higher education degrees and studies.
- Order ECI/1519/2006, of 11 May, establishing the general criteria for the establishment and carrying out of supplementary educational requirements prior to the recognition of foreign higher education degrees.
- Royal Decree 285/2004, of 20 February, regulating the conditions for recognition and validation of foreign higher education degrees and studies, amended by Royal Decree 309/2005, of 18 March.
- Order of 21 July 1995 establishing the general criteria for the carrying out of the combined exams prior to the recognition of foreign higher education degrees. This order was abolished on 19 May 2006, except for cases initiated and resolved in accordance with Royal Decree 86/1987.
