Your nota de candidatura
Portugal's public universities and polytechnics fill their degrees through one national competition, by grade. We compare yours with the average grade of the students each of 1,049 degrees at 30 institutions placed in 2025.
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Half of all degrees placed students averaging between 13.5 and 15.6. Medicine averaged 17.9 to 18.8; the highest of any degree was 19.5.
Read this before you rely on the results
- The entry figure is the average grade of the students placed in each degree through the 2025 national access competition — not the grade of the last student placed, which is lower and which this data does not include. Being under the average does not mean you would miss a place, and being over it is not a guarantee. The figures are for 2025 only, and they move each year with demand.
- Your nota de candidatura is not one number: each degree sets its own entrance exams (provas de ingresso), its own weighting between school average and exams, and minimum marks. Enter the grade you expect for the kind of degree you want, and check each degree's requirements with DGES before applying.
- Public universities and polytechnics only — the degrees with a published entry grade through the national competition. Private institutions, the Universidade Aberta and the military and police academies have no entry figures in the data and are not matched. We show no tuition figures.
Entry figures cover students placed through the national access competition (Concurso Nacional de Acesso): their average entry grade out of 20, and their average percentile on the entrance exams — the 80th percentile means they outscored, on average, 80% of the students who sat the same exams and entered higher education through the competition. Only bachelor's and integrated master's programmes take part; others have no entry figures.