Matriculation

• Before the matriculation period commences, you need to submit
• During the matriculation period you need to submit
• If you are applying for a MEC grant :

  You do not have to present proof of having applied for the MEC scholarship, nor the scholarship holder's credential or the resolution denying you the scholarship, unless we expressly ask you to do so.

• How to submit the documentation: Online, using the Form for online document submission

• If you are studying a Master's degree offered by an affiliated centre, you must contact its Student Secretary's Office 

Affiliated Centres

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1. Be up to date in the payment of tuition fees for previous courses in any degree program at the university; Otherwise, you will only be permitted to matriculate once the debt has been settled.
2. Submit the necessary documentation for matriculation.
3. Consult the public prices that apply to the Master in which you are going to matriculate
4. Consult the syllabus for matriculation published on the web: it is absolutely essential for a correct matriculation. If your Master's degree has specializations or itineraries, it is your responsibility to make sure that the matriculation you make allows you to complete the study plan.
5. Choose the mode of study:

          5.1. Full time: It is obligatory that you matriculate for all the credits of the programme of study if it is taught in one academic year, or for the entire first year if it is taught in more than one academic year. 

You are required to matriculate on a full-time basis:

1. If you have applied for a grant, you should matriculate for the credits stipulated in the conditions of the relevant grant competition.
2. If you are a beneficiary of a "Miguel de Cervantes" Residence scholarship or other UAH grants: own calls or through agreements with other institutions.

          5.2. Part-time: You should matriculate for a minimum of 30 credits for each academic year, or, should it be lower, for the number of credits remaining for you to matriculate for, not counting any credit for which you have requested credit recognition.

    6. Access the application with your username and password that you used in the University Master's degree Preregistration

• New students:During the Registration process you were sent an e-mail with your username and password. If you don´t remember it, check the information here
• Students in second and subsequent years:If you have been registered in previous years, check the information here

The application will be opened from 10 a.m. of the day of the beginning until 23:59 of the deadline, continuously, and it is designed for computer and laptop screens, not for mobile devices. Check the browsers and requirements.

All the processes and questions about the registration must be carried out at:

EXTRAORDINARY PERIOD

ORDINARY PERIOD

EXTRAORDINARY PERIOD FOR CREDIT TRANSFER AND RECOGNITION

For questions related to pre-registration, please contact with Servicio de Estudios Oficiales de Posgrado

For questions related to matriculation, please contact with Secretaría de Alumnos de Posgrado

• Automatrícula

The registration fee is the total of the public fees for academic services, administrative services and academic insurance, where appropriate.

a) Academic services.

The amount payable is the total derived from multiplying the price of a credit by the number of credits for which you are registering.

At the moment of register the Master Dissertation it is paid the 100% of the cost at first registration. If it is not defended at the academic year registered for the first time, the student can register again the next academic year paying the 25% of the cost at first registration.

b) Administrative services

These consist of:

• Creation of an academic transcript paid only when registering for a University Master for the first time. In the event of simultaneous studies, each of the University Master's degrees for which the student is registered must be paid for.
• Secretarial Costs: paid in each academic year for which the student registers.

c) Academic insuranceYou will be exempt from payment if:

This must be paid by Spanish students and foreign students legally resident in Spain.

You will be exempt from payment if:

• You are over 28 years old on the start date of the academic year for which you are registering.
• You have already paid it at another Official Education Centre, but you must present the receipt.
• You are trainee researcher staff covered by the General Social Security Regime.

Check the coverage and the application procedure on the Social Security website 

d) Voluntary accident insurance

The University has an accident insurance policy which you may subscribe to voluntarily by selecting this option on the automatriculation application:

• It is distinct from student insurance.
• Cost: 6 € a year.
• Consult terms of policy.

e) Recognition of credits

If you have obtained recognition for credit in some subjects, you will pay 25% of the price of the credit for the course you are taking.

 Choose a payment option:

a) Single payment

Total matriculation fee to be paid in single instalment, in September. Check the payment date here.

If you have problems paying on-line or printing the receipt to pay at the bank, try again by accessing MY PORTAL with your username and password. If you do not remember them, click here. Go to the Matriculation section and click on Receipt Management Application, section Payment of tuition receipts

b) Payment in instalments.

In monthly payments starting in September and ending in June. If, for any reason, you start at a later date, the payment in instalments will be made in as many receipts as there are left until June. Payment cannot be divided into instalments if total matriculation fee is below 350 euros.

Remaining monthly payments:

• Check here the payment dates.

When matriculating automatically, you can only pay on-line and print the receipt. corresponding to the first instalment. For the receipts corresponding to the following instalments, access MY PORTAL with your username and password. If you do not remember them, click here. Go to the Matriculation section and click on Bill Management Application, section Payment of tuition receipts.

Important: You do not need to present a receipt at the University, but it is very important that you keep the receipt, as you may be asked to produce it if there is no record of payment in your transcript.

a) If you live in Spain.

Online-Payment Redsys (electronic or card payment). Maestro, Mastercard, Visa and Visa Electron credit and debit cards are all valid. Very important: Be sure that your card has implemented the system 3D secure or similar. Have your card ready before starting the process. Before using this form of payment please read the following important information. If you are uncertain how to use this method of payment, do not start the process. You have to take into account that the limit at your card must cover the amount of the receipt to pay.

Direct debit:

• If you choose this form of payment, you must maintain it throughout the course.
• Receipts will be presented for payment on the fifth day of each month. If these payments are bounced, they must be paid immediately using the bank receipt available from MI PORTAL, (“My receipts”)
• When matriculating automatically, you must supply the following details: bank account for charging the receipts, in which you must appear as account holder. If this form of payment was not chosen when carrying out auto-matriculation but you later wish to do so or to notify any change in your account details, you must fill in the “SEPA standing order form” available from MI PORTAL and hand it in at the Postgraduate and Non-Regulated Studies Students Office before the 25th day of each month.

Bank receipt: Payment in cash at any branch of the Banco Santander upon presentation of two payment receipts. The Bank keeps one copy and the other is for the student.

b) If you live outside Spain.

Online-Payment Redsys (electronic or card payment). Maestro, Mastercard, Visa and Visa Electron credit and debit cards are all valid. Very important: Be sure that your card has implemented the system 3D secure or similar. Have your card ready before starting the process. Before using this form of payment please read the following important information. If you are uncertain how to use this method of payment, do not start the process. You have to take into account that the limit at your card must cover the amount of the receipt to pay.

The public fees payment receipt is issued in the student's name. If it is to be paid by a public or private Company or Institution, this body should request the issue of an invoice within the payment period stated on the receipt using the form Factura abono del importe de matrícula (Registration fee payment invoice). Once the invoice has been requested, the receipt cannot be used for the purposes of payment.

Students are obliged to pay the registration fee within the deadlines established for the option they have chosen: single payment or payment in instalments, except if they are exempt from paying the full registration fee.

Failure to pay the full amount or payment in instalments generates a debt in favour of the University, the payment of which will be required as a prior condition for subsequent matriculation in the same or other studies at the UAH, as well as for access to academic services. It will not be interpreted as a request for cancellation of matriculation, which must be requested in accordance with the established procedure.

It entails:

• You will not be able to ask for any action at your record
• Claiming the payment of the debt, when you want to re-matriculate in a UAH degree course.
• Refusal to issue qualifications and certificates when you have outstanding payments, with these sums subject to a surcharge equivalent to the official interest rates for the period.

Using the receipts management application in MI PORTAL, you can view, print and pay on-line matriculation receipts

How to Access the application?

• With your user ID and password. If you cannot remember them, click here
• Access the application

Which matriculation receipts can be paid on-line?

• Outstanding receipts under either form of payment which can be viewed in the outstanding receipts section, except:
  • Bank standing charges: if you chose this form of payment when matriculating automatically, you must use it for all instalments.
  • Bank receipt: if you have already printed it and wish to pay on-line, contact the Students Secretariat at secalum.postgrado@uah.es in order to make payment this way possible.
• Erroneous receipts:
  • If for some reason the on-line payment could not be completed, your matriculation will not be validated and you will not be able to print the receipt.
  • Such receipts may be viewed in the erroneous receipts section.
  • In order to pay and validate the matriculation, try to make the payment from this application. If you do not wish to try again, contact the Students Secretariat secalum.postgrado@uah.es
• Please bear in mind:
• You cannot pay the receipt for, say, the third instalment within the dates for payment of the second instalment.
• You cannot pay the receipt for, say, the second instalment within the dates for payment of the third instalment. Contact the Secretariat 

Calendar of payments

• Check  the monthly payments and due dates

You need to go to the receipt management application to generate the receipt in order to pay the stipulated public fees for:

• University Master’s Degree academic certificates.
• Official University Master’s Degree certificate.
• Postage of Official University Master’s Degree certificate to Delegations or Subdelegations of Spanish Government or to Spanish Embassies or Consulates abroad.
• The inspection of applications for the recognition or transfer of credits for studies pursued in other Spanish or foreign centers, except if you apply just for the recognition of subjects included at the table of automatic recognition of the Master (check the Catalogue of courses, section Recognition of credits). The inclusion of the credits taken at the Open Application for Postgraduates Studies or Short Postgraduates Studies, always that the subjects belong to the University Master in which you enroll.
• Degree certificate duplicate.
• Reserve MU place.

Before creating the fee, check that the concept and the amount you choose is suitable for the application, because, with posterity, the amounts payed will not be returned.

Please bear in mind the following

1. To access the receipt management application you need a user ID and password. If you do not remember them, click here
2. Before generating the receipt, make sure you select carefully the item corresponding to your application. For example, if you are applying for the Master’s Degree certificate, you need to select Payment of Official Master’s Degree certificate.
3. If you belong to a large family the corresponding discount will be applied automatically provided your file is up to date. If not, before continuing send a copy of your card to: postgrado@uah.es
4. Allowed methods of payment:
• On-line TPV payment (Virtual payment or credit card payment). The following credit and debit cards are accepted: Visa, Mastercard, 4B and Maestro. Very Important: Be sure that your card has implemented the system 3D secure or similar. Have your card ready before starting the process. If you are uncertain how to use this method of payment, do not start the process.
• Over the counter payment (only if you reside in Spain): print the receipt for cash payment in any Banco Santander branch in Spain. The bank will keep one copy of the payment slip, the other is for you.
5. Send the payment slip to secalum.postgrado@uah.es  together with the application form and the relevant documentation; or hand it in in person at Postgraduate and Non-Regulated Studies Students Office.

An amendment to the registration consists of removing, adding or replacing subjects and it will be managed sending the application form to the Postgraduate and Non-Regulated Studies Students Office (Secretaría de Alumnos de Posgrado y Estudios Propios) within the period established for each academic year for University Masters degrees.

In order to process the request for amendment, it is an essential requirement to be aware of the payment of the registration.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Before filling the section Subjects in which matriculation is to be cancelled or Subjects in which new matriculation is sought, you have to check the study plan for matriculation publish at the website. If your Master has specialities or itineraries, is your responsibility to check that the modification applied allow you to complete the study plan.

If for any reason you are unable to take the Master's degree you have matriculated in, you must request the cancellation of your matriculation within the period established for this purpose:

• Until 22 October without having to provide any justification: payments made will be refunded, except for the €250 corresponding to the reservation of the place, the opening of the file and the secretary's fees. The refund will be made automatically if bank details have been provided for the direct debit of the enrolment fee; otherwise, it must be expressly requested by filling in the application form for the refund of public fees, which will be accompanied by the SEPA Mandatory Order Request.

If you have not made the payment, you will be left with an outstanding debt corresponding to one monthly payment.

If you have been authorised to matriculate after this date, the deadline for requesting the cancellation of matriculation will be 15 calendar days.

The maximum period for resolving the application and notifying the resolution is three months from the date on which the application was sent to the email address of the Secretary's Office for Postgraduate Students and UB-specific studies. If we have not notified you of the decision within the period indicated, you can assume that your application has been accepted.

• Cancellations after 22 October: the application must be addressed to the Vice-Rector for Postgraduate Studies, who will decide whether the cancellation is appropriate. There will be no refund of the amounts paid. If you have not made the payment, you will be left with an outstanding debt corresponding to the unpaid monthly fees or instalments.

Exceptionally, and duly justified by documentation, in the event that the full amount of the matriculation fee has been paid, the amounts corresponding to the instalments that would be pending payment if payment had been made in instalments may be refunded. If you have not made the payment, you will be left with an outstanding debt corresponding to the unpaid monthly fees or instalment

The documentation justifying the reasons for requesting the cancellation must contain the minimum and necessary information and will only be used to resolve the application.

The maximum period for resolving the application and notifying the resolution is three months from the date on which your application was received by the Secretary's Office for Postgraduate Students and Own Studies. If we have not notified you of the decision within this period, you can assume that your application has been accepted.

• Cancellation for denial or revocation of MEC scholarship

The denial or revocation of the grant is not considered a reason to request the cancellation of the matriculation. Students who, on formalising their matriculation, take advantage of the price exemption for having applied for an MEC grant, and subsequently do not obtain it, are obliged to pay the price corresponding to the matriculation they made. Failure to pay generates a debt in favour of the university, the payment of which will be required as a prior condition for subsequent matriculation in the same or other studies at the UAH, as well as for access to academic services, and you will not be able to apply for the issuing of degrees and certificates while you have outstanding payments to be made.

The application for recognition of credits is done telematically, through MI PORTAL, within the set deadlines, and after the period you have enroled.

For example:

EXTRAORDINARY PERIOD FOR CREDIT TRANSFER AND RECOGNITION Only for students who apply for the recognition of the subject Internship for work experience.

Before starting, read carefully this information

1. Before making the application, you should refer to the Regulations, and check the public fee established for the study you are applying for, which depends on whether the studies were pursued in a Spanish or a foreign center.

VERY IMPORTANT: You don´t have to pay this fee if you apply just, the recognition of subjects included at:

• the table of automatic recognition of the Master (check the Catalogue of courses, section Recognition of credits),
• or the inclusion of the credits taken at the Open Application for Postgraduates Studies or Short Postgraduates Studies, always that the subjects belong to the University Master in which you enroll.

2. Complete enrolment in the study plan for which you will request recognition. and next apply for the recognition of credits at the stablished period.
3. Access MI PORTAL and follow these instructions:

• Access the Receipts Management applicationand generate the receipt for payment of the study applied for. Payment is a prerequisite to start the procedure, with the exceptions indicate at point 1.
• Follow the instructions in the Credit Recognition Tutorial

    4. Submit, at the stablished period, the Form for telematic shipment of documents for recognition of credits, and attach a copy of the application form for recognition of credits and the documents required. You will receive an email of submission, once you send the form.

You have to attach in pdf format at the Form for telematic shipment of documents for recognition of credits together with the the application for recognition of credits

For university courses taken in Spanish centers (it is not necessary to submit this documentation if the studies were taken at UAH):

• Copy of the personal academic certificate of completed studies.
• Copy of the teaching guide or program of each subject for which the student applied for recognition of credits, with indication of the acquired skills and knowledge, the developed contents, and activities completed and their extension in credits or hours,
• Copy of the syllabus.

The Academic Board may request other supplementary documentation, consult the Master webpage.

For university studies taken in centers abroad:

• Copy of the academic certificate of the completed studies, previously legalize, including the subjects taken, the qualification gained, the workload in hours or credits, the academic year in which the subjects were taken and the qualification system used to issue the academic certificate, with specific indication of the minimum and maximum grade available the mentioned qualification system.
• Copy of the programme of the subjects studied and passed for which the student is applying for recognition of credits, with indication of the skills and knowledge acquired, the contents developed, the activities completed and their extension in credits or hours, with the stamp of the corresponding centre.
• Certified photocopy of the syllabus, with the stamp of the corresponding centre.

These documents shall conform the following requirements:

• They must be official and issued by the relevant authorities for this purpose, in accordance with the legal system for the country concerned.
• To legalization or translation, if necessary, check here.

For work experience:

• Recent Curriculum Vitae.
• Work life in Social Security or equivalent document (for foreign countries).
• Copy of the certificate/s issued by the institution/s or the public or private company/ies in which the student has worked, indicating the functions and tasks performed the duration.

The Academic Direction of a Master may request other supplementary documentation which is considered necessary to assess the of the curriculum and study plan for which recognition of credits is sought.

Finished the deadline to apply for the recognitions of credits, we will check your application, if it doesn’t meet the requirements or you don’t have submit the documents required, we will notify you by email in order to you repair or submit the documents in a period of ten days. Finished this period, if you don’t have repaired it, we will consider you desisted at the application for recognition of credits.

You can consult the status of you request by accessing "MI PORTAL" where you can see if the subjects for which you applied for recognition, have been accepted, denied or are pending resolution.

You will be notified of express resolution via your email. If you are successful in your requests, you will have to pay the corresponding public price, unless you are a beneficiary of a relevant exemption; in that case you have to use the receipt that is available on "MI PORTAL".

Period for resolving and notifying students on the resolution of their application for the recognition of credits.

There is a period of three months, starting from the date that the application is received by the Postgraduate Students and UAH-endorsed Courses Secretary's office. This period will be interrupted, if you have to repair your application, or submit the required documents, for the time between the requirement notification and its effective compliance or, otherwise, for the period given.

A lack of response will mean that the application for recognition of credits has been denied.

A denial of the application for recognition of credits, shown by a lack of response, will then allow the student concerned to make an appeal before the Rector, within a period of three months, starting from the day after the previous three-month period ends. This is in accordance with articles 24.2 and 122 of Law 39/2015, on 1st of October, of the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations (BOE nº 236, of 2nd October)

1. The application for the transfer of credits should be made in the first year of the students Master’s degree, for those who are applying for the transfer of credits or when joining to a new Master, and shall conform that is established and published on the university website.
2. Before embarking on the application, you should consult the Regulations and Public fee established for the study of applications relative to studies pursued in Spanish centres.
3. Access the Receipts Management application and generate the receipt for payment of the study applied for. Payment is a prerequisite of the study and processing of your application. VERY IMPORTANT: New students entering the University have to let 24 hours pass since they are registered to access the receipts management application and MI PORTAL.
4. The application and the proof of payment for study of the application should be submitted to the Postgraduate School, to the Secretary of Postgraduate and Research Students, or to any of the places mentioned in article 121 and 122 of Law 39/2015, on 1^st of October, of the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations (BOE nº 236, of 2nd October), in the registration period that is established for each academic year.

Official Academic Certificate for the transfer file, in the case of studies completed in the Spanish universities, or the personal academic certificate, in the case of completed at universities in the European Higher Education Area.

If the studies (for which the transference of credits is being applied) were completed at UAH, it is not necessary to present any documentation.

For the certificate, and for the required documents that must accompany the documents issued abroad, you must consult Legislation, Translation, Collation and Attestation of Documents.

Deadline to resolve and notify credit transfer resolution.

It will be three months from the date that the application was received by The Secretary of Postgraduate and Research Students. The lack of express resolution within the time limit will mean that the request for recognition of credits has been denied.

The denial of the application for recognition of credits, shown by lack of administrative response, does however mean that the person concerned can file for an appeal before the Rector, within a period of of three months. This period starts the day after the original three month period, in accordance with articles 121 and 122 of Law 39/2015, on 1^st of October, of the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations (BOE nº 236, of 2^nd October).