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Formal Requirements

Students

All applicants applying as a student for the Masters Program in Geospatial Technologies will be assessed against the following formal admission criteria:

1. In an evaluation procedure, up to 32 students will be admitted each year (fall/winter semester), half of them starting at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and half at the Universitat Jaume I, Castellón. The overall entry requirements are defined by the respective national laws for Higher Education in Spain and Portugal.

2. A requirement for admission is an adequate Bachelor degree of six semesters full time (= 180 ECTS credit points) or more, as recognized by the partner universities in Germany, Portugal, or Spain, for admission to graduate studies. The Masters Program in Geospatial Technologies is recommended to students with relevant degrees in application areas of geographic information, e.g., geography, ecology, urban, regional and environmental planning, logistics/transportation, energy provision, surveying, agriculture, forestry. We also particularly welcome students with a degree in computer science. Within previous studies or professional experience, we expect applicants having acquired basic IT/GI skills already. In case of uncertainty, the Examination board or Masters Program coordinator decide about relevance of the previous degree.

3. For students NOT applying for a scholarship – and on the basis of an individual evalution – 150 credits can be accepted for a preliminary approval, if the Bachelor diploma is provided at the time of enrolment. (This is NOT applicable for scholarship applications!!!)

4. The study program is in English language. Therefore, a TOEFL PBT certificate (minimum 500 points, paper-based), or equivalent, is required. Equivalent can be the TOEFL computer-based (CBT) or TOEFL (iBT), a certificate from other recognised institutions such as IELTS (academics) or Cambridge FCE, a previous Bachelors or Masters program entirely taught in English (to be documented), or English as mother tongue.

Equivalents to TOEFL 500 paper-based are, e.g.,

  • TOEFL computer-based (CBT) 173
  • TOEFL internet-based (iBT) 61
  • IELTS (academic) 6
  • Cambridge FCE

If no English test is available, the Selection Committee might accept to test the English language skills in a personal interview.

5. Students will have to apply in fully compliance to the admission procedure published at mastergeotech.info. Required documents are:

  • Online application form (see online application system)
  • Bachelor diploma AND the transcript of records in the original language (certified copy)
  • If the Bachelor documents are not in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German or French, please also provide an officially translated version in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, or French (certified copy)
  • If applicable: Master diploma AND the transcript of records in the original language (certified copy)
  • If applicable: If the Master documents are not in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German or French, please also provide an officially translated version in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, or French (certified copy)
  • If applicable: English test, see above
  • European format CV (see template) – especially for the last 5.5 years, the CV has to list all activities and dates in terms of month/year without any gaps!!!!! Gaps in the CV might lead uneligibility of an application. All activities and dates of at least for the last 5.5 years have to be proven by corresponding documents/confirmations.
  • Passport photo
  • Proof of nationality (passport or national identification card)

 

6. Recommendation letters, minimum two, see online application system.

7. A Skype interview might be requested of the candidate in order to clarify any part of the delivered documents. If this is the case, you will be contacted by email to set a date. If you are not contacted, no Skype interview is requested from you.

9. As a consequence of Council of the European Union Decision (CFSP) 2016/849 of 27th of May 2016 to take restrictive measures against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in particular Chapter VIII, article 30, we cannot accept nationals from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Applications from this country will be automatically rejected.

 

Info: Applicants may not apply to more than three Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses in the same year!

For enrollment at UJI, Spain, the following is required:

LEGALIZATION OF DOCUMENTS

Diploma and Transcripts

University degree or the equivalent academic degree and the transcripts or the academic certificates with the courses studied and the grades issued outside Spain have to be legalized according to Spanish law.

Students with a non-recognized foreign degree must provide a certificate acknowledging that their degree has an academic level equivalent to Spanish degrees and entitles them to pursue master’s degree studies.

Legalization, attestation or authentication of documents is the procedure that gives official and legal validity to documents issued outside Spain.

The deadline for students who are admitted to the Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies to submit their legalized documents for enrollment in the Masters program is according to the enrollment calendar each year at the Universitat Jaume I and is usually before September 1st.

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