National Access Route

CANDIDATES

Most applications for Bachelor’s degrees (1st cycle) and Integrated Master degrees are submitted through the National Access Route to Higher Education (CNA), organised by the Directorate-General for Higher Education and taking place at the end of the academic year in three application phases.

In order to apply, candidates must:

Hold a secondary education course or legally equivalent qualification;
Take, or have taken over the past two years, the national exams corresponding to the entrance exams required for the different courses and institutions to which they are applying;
Fulfil the prerequisites if they are required by the institution for the course for which they are applying.

For more information on the entrance exams required for each of the Bachelor’s or Integrated Master degrees of the University of Évora, as well as the score of the last student placed in the preceding academic year, the formula for calculating the application score, the minimum grade required, and the places available, visit our Portal - Courses.

HOW TO APPLY

Applications are submitted through the Directorate-General for Higher Education (DGES) online platform .

Application documents required:

Password to access the online application system;
The ENES Form (National Secondary Education Exams) issued by the Secondary School where the exams were taken;
Prerequisite Form if any of the institution/course pairs require prerequisites from Groups C, G, I, K, M, P, R, V, Y and Z.

The information in the Portal does not replace the need to visit the DGES website .

APPLICATION DEADLINES

To be published on the DGES website

PLACES AVAILABLE

See course details for information on places available .

Enyrance Exams for 2025/26 and 2026/27

Under the terms of article 21 of Decree-Law no. 296-A/98, ofSeptember 25, in conjunction with articles 18 and 20, the National Commissionfor Access to Higher Education (CNAES) is responsible for setting the list ofentrance exams, at the proposal of the higher education institutions, whereby thenumber of exams required for admission to each institution/course pair may notbe less than two and more than three. Competent body of the higher educationinstitution, authorize that, for certain institution/course pairs, the numberof lists be increased to a maximum of six.

In this context, and following the introduction of therequirement that the number of exams required for admission to eachinstitution/study cycle pair cannot be less than two and more than three,Decree-Law no. 64-A/2023 of July 31 three, by Decree-Law no. 64-A/2023, of July31, which made the tenth amendment to Decree-Law no. 296-A/98, of September 25,in its current wording, with article 34 of that Decree-Law providing that thechanges relating to the number of entrance exams and the resulting formula forcalculating the application classification are applicable to applications tohigher education for access and admission from the 2025/2026 academic yearonwards.

See here CNAES Decision no. 852/2024 , published in Diário daRepublica no. 126 - 2nd Series, of July 2, which publishes the list of entranceexams for applications to higher education in the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027academic years.

SPECIAL QUOTAS

In the 1st phase of the national exams, the places available for each course at each higher education institution are distributed among a general quota and special quotas for candidates under special conditions, as follows:

Candidates will have to meet all the criteria and conditions required for the general quota, and the same rules will apply: the need to take the entrance exams and their period of validity, how scores are used in each application phase, and the exams taken abroad. Application deadlines are defined in the deadlines to be published on the DGES website . Candidates may only apply to the special quota in the 1st phase, except for candidates with a disability, who may apply in the 2nd phase.