Study at a Valencia University as a Foreigner

Non-EU applicants request official recognition of their studies, get a UNEDasiss access certification, and pre-enrol once for the five Valencian public universities. Send the UNEDasiss request at least 6 weeks before pre-enrolment closes. EU, reciprocity-system and IB students skip the access test.

Which route fits you?

If you studied in an EU or reciprocity system, or did the European Baccalaureate or the IB, you enter without the access test and without homologating your diploma. Still check the UV list, because it asks EU baccalaureate holders for the UNED credential.

If your system is outside the EU, three bodies handle three steps. The Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sport recognises your studies. UNEDasiss issues the access certification. Pre-enrolment is then one application, the same for the five Valencian public universities.

UNEDasiss can issue the certification without waiting for the Ministry’s decision.

Already hold a Spanish or recognised university degree? You can go straight into a grado.

Get the UNEDasiss accreditation

Ask the university first whether it uses the UNEDasiss grade, wants a minimum number of PCE exams or PAU subjects, or needs a language certificate. Then gather your last two pre-university years of records, legalised with the Hague Apostille or by diplomatic channel. Anything not in Spanish needs a translation. The apostille and translation guide walks through it.

You request the accreditation online between 4 February and 1 December each year. UNEDasiss recommends sending it as soon as possible and at least 6 weeks before pre-enrolment closes. UNEDasiss has up to three months to process it, though files can be resolved within 3 weeks once application, documents and payment arrive. You pay for every service you request, even if it is denied.

Raise your grade with the PCE exams

Your entrance grade is calculated on a base of 14 points, and the certification gives you 5 to 6 of them. You choose 4 to 6 subjects, so pick the ones that weigh most for your degree; weightings can be 0, 0.1 or 0.2. The exams usually fall in May.

Pre-enrol once for five universities

You file a single application in the Valencian university district and list up to 20 degrees in order of preference. Places go to applicants ranked by access grade, highest first, until they run out. Pre-enrolment usually opens in mid-June and closes in the first week of July.

For the 2026 intake, international-system students had until 7 July. Next year’s dates are not published yet. In that cycle you could apply without the accreditation and add the missing documents until 31 July.

What you pay per credit

Grado prices are set per credit, by experimentality level and by how many times you enrol a subject. At first enrolment that runs from EUR 12.79 per credit at level A to EUR 18.00 at level D.

If you are not a resident, and not an EU national or covered by EU rules, you pay double those prices, never above 100% of the cost of the service. A student stay authorisation does not count as residence for this, so ask the secretariat how it classes your card.

Master’s with a foreign degree

A master’s that does not lead to a regulated profession costs EUR 35.34 per credit at first enrolment, then 56.51. Public universities may ask new master’s students for an enrolment advance when they reserve the place.

If your degree is from outside the European Higher Education Area and not homologated, the UPV lets you pay a fee so the university verifies equivalence, currently EUR 155.22. That gives you access to the master’s, not recognition of your degree. For a regulated profession, see the degree homologation guide.

Language of teaching

Check the teaching language before you apply. At the UV, Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences is taught in Catalan and Spanish, and Computer Engineering in Catalan, Spanish and English. Some degrees also have special language conditions at pre-enrolment. For Spanish classes, see Spanish courses in Valencia.

Visa and housing

The student visa guide covers the permit rules for a Spanish course. For a room, start with renting a room in Valencia.

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Not confirmed: UNEDasiss fees are not confirmed: see its Precios y normas page. Next year's pre-enrolment dates are not published. Ask the university secretariat whether a student authorisation pays the single or the double rate.

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