Access: Theater

RECIPIENTS

Students with Portuguese High School graduation diploma or legally equivalent degree, which performed the exams according with the national entrance examinations list required by ESAP, with a grade equal or superior to 95 points (0 to 200 scale).

Students not covered by the statute of international student regulated by Decree-Law nº 62/2018, of 6 August, that changes and republishes the statute of international student published by Decree-Law nº 36/2014, of 10 March, and amended by Decree-Law nº 113/2014, of 16 July.

EXAMS
One of the following:

12 História da Cultura e das Artes (History of Culture and Arts)

13 Inglês (English)

18 Português (Portuguese)

ACCESS CONDITIONS

Through the general regime, students can only apply to ESAP’s Bachelor Degrees and Integrated Master which hold, cumulatively, the following conditions:

1. Have successfully completed high school graduation (or legally equivalent degree);
2. On the application year or the two previous years (2022, 2021, 2020), have performed the national entrance examinations demanded for the bachelor or integrated master to which one is applying to.
3. Obtained the minimal grade required in the national entrance examinations (95 points) and on the application grade (95 points).

Replacement of national entrance examinations by foreign examinations.

For students with non Portuguese degrees legally equivalent to the Portuguese high school diploma, the national entrance examinations mentioned above can be replaced by final examinations of disciplines of these courses, in accordance with article 20-A of Decree-Law no. 296-A / 98, dated September 25, updated by Decree-Law no. 90/2008, of May 30, which cumulatively meet the following conditions:

1. Having national scope;
2. Being about disciplines homologous of the national entrance examinations

It’s considered homologous the disciplines which, even though with different denominations, have identical level and purposes and similar syllabus to the entrance examinations that are aimed to be replaced. For further details, namely consultation of the correspondence table of foreign disciplines considered homologous in the entrance exams demanded for access to ESAP’s study cycles, as well as application process, it is recommended to visit the Directorate-General for Higher Education website.

Foreign examinations may be used within identical deadlines to the ones determined for high school final examinations – the year of its completion and the two following years.

The equivalencies attribution to foreign secondary studies completion diploma’s to a Portuguese high school course falls within the Directorate-General for Higher Education jurisdiction. 

SERIATION CRITERIA  (APPLICATION’S GRADE)

 Application’s grade is calculated according to the following formula:

– 65% grade average of secondary school + 35% entrance examination
– Obs.: Access to ESAP’s courses doesn’t have prerequisites  

DEADLINES

1st PHASE

Application: 3 July to 11 August 2023
Documents delivery: until 25 August 2023
Affixation of the provisory seriation list: 1 September 2023
Complaints: 1 and 4 September 2023
Affixation of the final seriation list: 5 September 2023
Enrollment: 6 to 13 September 2023

2nd PHASE (if vacancies are available)

Application: 28 August to 13 September 2023
Documents delivery: until 13 September 2023
Affixation of the provisory seriation list: 14 September 2023
Complaints: 14 and 15 September 2023
Affixation of the final seriation list: 18 September 2023
Enrollment: 19 to 22 September 2023

3rd PHASE (when vacancies exist)

Application: 18 September to 13 October 2023
Documents delivery: until 13 October 2023
Affixation of the provisory seriation list: 16 October 2023
Complaints: 16 and 17 October 2023
Affixation of the final seriation list: 18 October 2023
Enrollment: 19 to 27 October 2023

VACANCIES
12

DOCUMENTS

1. Application form (Apply Online);
2. High School’s national entrance examinations document (ENES document);
3. ID card.

PRICES

ESAP’s Tuition e School Fees.

APPLICABLE LAW

Decree-Law no. 296-A / 98, dated September 25, updated by Decree-Law no. 90/2008, of May 30: it regulates access regime and entrance in higher education.

INFORMATION

Reading this page doesn’t exempt from consultation of detailed information provided by Directorate-General for Higher Education.

RECIPIENTS

It can apply to the evaluation exams for ability to attend higher education courses regarding candidates over 23 years old, those who are over 23 years old or who complete it until 31st  December of the year previous to the completion of the exams, as long as, cumulatively, gathering the following conditions:

1. Do not hold access qualifications for the intended course, being the access qualification to have a high school graduation diploma or equivalent and the approval on national entrance examinations which are access exams for the intended course, in the year of the application or the two immediately previous years. 
2.  Not having Portuguese or other European Union State Member citizenship, those who reside legally in Portugal uninterrupted for over two years, on 1st January of the year which they intend to attend a higher education course, as well as the children who reside with them, and the time of residence for study does not matter for this purpose.

EXAMS

Theoretical examination: Critical Analysis of a text
Examination’s matrix

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RECIPIENTS

This special call includes:

1. Holders of bachelor degree (3rd year pre-Bologna degree), Bachelor graduate (Bologna degree), master or PhD;
2. Holders of extinguished courses of Primary Teaching School, Kindergarten Teachers and General Nursing who prove, simultaneously, to be holders of a high school course, complementary of high school or within the 10^th/11^th school year.

Due to International Student’s Status, amended and republished by the Decree Law n.º 62/2018, 6 August, it can only apply to Other Higher Education Courses’ Holders:

1. Citizens of a European Union State Member;

2. Relatives (cfr. Law n.º 37/2006, 9 August) of Portuguese national citizens or nationals of a Member State of the European Union, irrespective of their nationality;

3. Citizens, even if not of an European Union State Member, who reside in Portugal for over a course of two uninterrupted years, on 1st of January of the application year, as well as children which live with them, not counting for this purpose the time of residence for education;

4. Those who, under an international treaty signed between the Portuguese State and the State of their citizenship, can benefit from a legal status granting them similar rights and obligations to a Portuguese citizen, on the 1st of January of the year in which they intend to enter in higher education studies;

Therefore, candidates who don’t reunite the above mentioned conditions can only apply to ESAP through International Students’s Access and Entrance Special Call or through Change of Course/Institution regime.

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RECIPIENTS

It is considered International Students those who don’t have Portuguese citizenship, with the following exceptions:

1. Citizens of an European Union State Member;
2. Relatives of Portuguese national citizens or nationals of a Member State of the European Union, irrespective of their nationality;

   “Family member” means those who are considered as such under the terms of Law No. 37/2006, of August 9, namely:

   a) the spouse of a Union citizen;
   b) The partner with whom a Union citizen lives in a stable union, established in accordance with the law, or with whom the Union citizen maintains a permanent relationship duly certified by the competent authority of the Member State where he or she resides;
   c) A direct descendant under 21 years of age or who is in the care of a citizen of the Union, as well as a spouse or partner within the meaning of the previous paragraph;
   d) The direct ascendant who is dependent on a Union citizen, as well as the spouse or partner within the meaning of subparagraph b).

3. Citizens, even if not of an European Union State Member, who reside in Portugal for over a course of two uninterrupted years, on 1st of January of the application year, as well as children which live with them, not counting for this purpose the time of residence for education.
               * If, on January 1st of the year of application, the parents have had legal and permanent residence for more than two years, the candidate is considered, for application purposes, as having Portuguese nationality. It is mandatory to prove that you live with your parents.
4. Those who, under an international treaty signed between the Portuguese State and the State of their citizenship, can benefit from a legal status granting them similar rights and obligations to a Portuguese citizen, on the 1st of January of the year in which they intend to enter in higher education studies;
5. Those who request entrance in higher education through special call of access and entrance under Decree Law nº 393-A/99, October 2, as amended by Decree Law nº 272/2009, October 1;
6. It isn’t considered international student, foreign students which attend ESAP within an international mobility program for the completion of part of study cycle of a foreign higher education institution with an exchange agreement protocol with ESAP established for that purpose.
7. The international students shall maintain their status until the end of the course in which they are initially enrolled or in transit, with the exception of those who in the meanwhile acquire the nationality of a Member State of the European Union, in which case the international student status is no longer applicable.
8. Exceptions to the previous number the international students who acquire the nationality of a Member State of the European Union;
9. The application cessation of the international student status as a result of the previous number takes effect in the next academic year of the acquisition of nationality date;
10. Admission to higher education institutions by those are covered by points 1 to 4 is carried out on the same terms as students with Portuguese nationality.

EXAMS

Two of the following:

12 History of Culture and Arts (Exam’s matrix)

13 English (Exam’s matrix)

18 Portuguese (Exam’s matrix)

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ANNEX I – Applications under the International Student Statute – Brazilian candidates

ANNEX II – Declaration, under oath, that the candidate is eligible as an “international student” in accordance with the conditions listed in the items of nº 2 of art. 2nd of the ESAP International Student Regulations

ANNEX III – Declaration, under oath, that the candidate enters under the terms of national students

Declaration of authorization for access to the results of the National High School Exam (ENEM) – Brazilians

Reentrance is the act by which a student, after interrupting the studies in a higher education institution/course, enrolls in the same institution and course or in a course which has replaced it. 

RECIPIENTS

It can apply for reentrance students who cumulatively:

1. Were enrolled and registered in the Institution/Course or in an Institution/Course which has preceded them;   
2. Weren’t registered in the Institution/Course  in the academic year previous to the one regarding the reentrance application.

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Institution/Course Change is applied when a student enrolls and/registers in a  different institution/course from the one(s) in which, in previous academic years, he has registered. Change of institution/course may take place with or without enrollment interruption and inscription in a higher education institution.

RECIPIENTS

1. It can apply to institution/course change students who:

   i) Have been enrolled and registered in another institution/course without having completed it; 
   ii) Have performed high school national exams correspondent to the access examinations determined for the general regime’s institution/course, in that year;
   iii) In those exams, have the minimal grade demanded by ESAP, in that year, within the entrance general regime.

2. The mentioned national exams may have been made in any given academic year.
3. The institution/course change also applies to students who have been enrolled and registered in foreign higher education institutions, in a course defined by its country as being higher education, without having completed it.
4. It isn’t allowed institution/course change in professional technical course of higher education level, or foreign course of corresponding level, for bachelor degrees or integrated masters study cycles. 
5. It isn’t allowed institution/course change on the academic year in which the student has been placed in a higher education institution/course within any access and entrance regime and which have been enrolled and registered. 
6. Students who’ve entered higher education within the international students’ special call, regulated by Decree Law n.º 36/2014, maintain the international student statute until the end of the study cycle in which they were initially registered or to which they go to. The international students who’ve acquired an European Union State Member citizenship constitute an exception (the application’s ending of international students’ statute in consequence of the previously stated takes effect in the following academic year of the citizenship’s acquisition)

EXAMS

Two of the following:

12 History of Culture and Arts

13 English

18 Portuguese

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RECIPIENTS

Special calls for application to Higher Education are considered those that are destined to students with specific qualifications and personal conditions.

Existing regimes:

1. Portuguese diplomatic mission abroad;
2. Portuguese scholarship holders abroad and government officials abroad;
3. Portuguese Armed Forces’ Officers;
4. National scholarship holders in Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa;
5. Accredited diplomatic mission in Portugal;
6. High Performance Sports Practitioners;
7. Timor-Leste’s Nationals and sons of naturals

INFORMATION

Detailed information can be consulted in Directorate-General for Higher Education.

RECIPIENTS

It isn’t required to be a higher education student to attend ESAP’s curricular units.

Under the article 46º-A of  Decree Law 65/2018, 16 August,  it was established the possibility of registration in isolated curricular units, by any interested person, with the guarantee, in case of approval, of certification and crediting, if and when entering the course which includes it.

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RECIPIENTS

This special call includes students who, cumulatively: 

1. Are holders of higher technical professional diploma within the education and traning areas which provides access to the intended study cycle [Annex I: CNAEF Map – National Categorization of Education and Traning Areas Map (Mapa de Classificação Nacional das Áreas de Educação e Formação)]
2. Are holders of access exams (high school national entrance examinations) demanded for the intended study cycle;
3. Obtain in the said exams a grade not less than 95 points in a 0 to 200 scale

SERIATION CRITERIA

1. Final grade obtained in the higher technical professional diploma;
2. Grades of the high school national entrance examinations required as access exams.

DEADLINES

1st PHASE                                          

Application: 4 July to 12 August 2022
Documents delivery: until 26 August 2022
Affixation of the provisory seriation list: 2 September 2022
Complaints: 2 and 5 September 2022
Affixation of the final seriation list: 6 September 2022
Enrollment: 7 to 13 September 2022

2nd PHASE (if vacancies are available)

Application: 29 August to 14 September 2022
Documents delivery: until 14 September 2022
Affixation of the provisory seriation list: 15 September 2022
Complaints: 15 and 16 September 2022
Affixation of the final seriation list: 19 September 2022
Enrollment: 20 to 23 September 2022

3rd PHASE (when vacancies exist)

Application: 19 September to 14 October 2022
Documents delivery: until 14 October 2022
Affixation of the provisory seriation list: 17 October 2022
Complaints: 17 and 18 October 2022
Affixation of the final seriation list: 19 October 2022
Enrollment: 20 to 28 October 2022

VACANCIES
1

DOCUMENTS

1. Application form (ESAP’s Model);
2. Certificate of being holder of a Higher Technical Professional Diploma with the respective course’s CNAEF.
3. Certificate of approval in access exams demanded for the study cycle intended (ENES document);
4. ID Card.

Note: In compliance with article 10.º, point 3, section III of Decree Law m.º 113/2014, 16 July, which we quote: “In the case provided for in the previous paragraph, admission to the call may be subject to case-by-case analysis of the higher technical professional courses’ curriculum adequacy for access to the intended study cycle“. Therefore, it is advised that, when formalizing the application, it is attached to the certificate the respective syllabus of the higher technical professional course.

PRICES

ESAP’s Tuition e School Fees.

APPLICABLE LEGISLATION

Decree Law n.º 113/2014, 16 July: Regulates speciall calls for higher education access and entrance.

INFORMATION

Reading this webpage doesn’t exempt from consultation of the detailed information provided by Directorate-General for Higher Education.

RECIPIENTS

This special call includes students who, cumulatively: 

1. Are holders of technological specialization diploma within the education and traning areas which provides access to the intended study cycle [Annex I: CNAEF Map – National Categorization of Education and Traning Areas Map (Mapa de Classificação Nacional das Áreas de Educação e Formação)]
2. Are holders of access exams (high school national entrance examinations) demanded for the intended study cycle;
3. Obtain in the said exams a grade not less than 95 points in a 0 to 200 scale

SERIATION CRITERIA

1. Final grade obtained in the technological specialization diploma;
2. Grades of the high school national entrance examinations required as access exams.

DEADLINES

1st PHASE                                          

Application: 4 July to 12 August 2022
Documents delivery: until 26 August 2022
Affixation of the provisory seriation list: 2 September 2022
Complaints: 2 and 5 September 2022
Affixation of the final seriation list: 6 September 2022
Enrollment: 7 to 13 September 2022

2nd PHASE (if vacancies are available)

Application: 29 August to 14 September 2022
Documents delivery: until 14 September 2022
Affixation of the provisory seriation list: 15 September 2022
Complaints: 15 and 16 September 2022
Affixation of the final seriation list: 19 September 2022
Enrollment: 20 to 23 September 2022

3rd PHASE (when vacancies exist)

Application: 19 September to 14 October 2022
Documents delivery: until 14 October 2022
Affixation of the provisory seriation list: 17 October 2022
Complaints: 17 and 18 October 2022
Affixation of the final seriation list: 19 October 2022
Enrollment: 20 to 28 October 2022

VACANCIES
1

DOCUMENTS

1. Application form (ESAP’s Model);
2. Certificate of being holder of a Technological Specialization Diploma with the respective course’s CNAEF.
3. Certificate of approval in access exams demanded for the study cycle intended (ENES document);
4. ID Card.

Note: In compliance with article 10.º, point 3, section III of Decree Law m.º 113/2014, 16 July, which we quote: “In the case provided for in the previous paragraph, admission to the call may be subject to case-by-case analysis of the higher technical professional courses’ curriculum adequacy for access to the intended study cycle“. Therefore, it is advised that, when formalizing the application, it is attached to the certificate the respective syllabus of the higher technical professional course.

PRICES

ESAP’s Tuition e School Fees.

APPLICABLE LEGISLATION

Decree Law n.º 113/2014, 16 July: Regulates speciall calls for higher education access and entrance.

INFORMATION

Reading this webpage doesn’t exempt from consultation of the detailed information provided by Directorate-General for Higher Education.

RECIPIENTS

1. This specific call includes holders of educational and training degrees with double certification at the secondary level, granting the National Qualifications Framework level 4:

a) Vocational courses;
b) Apprenticeships; 
c) Education and training courses for young adults;
d) Courses from the educational network of the Turismo de Portugal, I.P;
e) Specialized art courses;
f) Professional training courses under the Training for Youth Inclusion from the Autonomous Region of Azores.

Also, students holding:

a) Music specialized art courses (secondary Level)
b) Courses from EU State Members, legally equivalent to Portugal’s secondary education, conferring double certification (academic and vocational), and level 4 of the European Qualification Framework;
c) Other non-Portuguese courses legally equivalent to secondary education in Portugal, granting double certification (academic and vocational), for students with Portuguese nationality. 

2. The holders of secondary school double certification and specialized art courses can apply for ESAP’s Bachelors and Integrated Master degrees as long as the qualification is part of the areas of education and training that grant the application for each study stage (Annex I- Map for the National Classification in the Areas of Education and Training).

3. Applications submitted by the holder of an EU Member State course, legally equivalent to Portugal’s secondary school level, granting double certification (vocational and academic) and level 4 of the European Qualifications Framework or for Portuguese citizens holders of other foreign courses legally equivalent to Portugal’s secondary school level, granting double certification (academic or vocational) referred to in paragraph b) of 1^st number of article 13, decree113/2014, 16^th July, in its current redaction, can be replaced by the equivalent final assessment from the respective education system, by the decision of the legal and statutorily competent, in the terms and conditions deliberated by the CNAES.

 4. The conditions laid in the previous point apply only to candidates who are not covered by the International Student statute.

EXAMS

Practical examination
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