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, and mobile devices. Check the browsers and requirements.

7. Frequently Asked Questions

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

TUTORIAL FOR SELF-ENROLMENT

• Automatrícula

Ordinary enrolment period: The application will be open from 11th September 2023 at 10:00 until 14 September 2023 at 23:59, without interruption. If possible, please register before 17:00, in the event of any incident, you can inform us either at secalum.posgrado@uah.es  or call 91 885 4300 for assistance.

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 are under 28 years of age

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 July. 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 July and ending in April. 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 April. 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.

If you are going to request an invoice, please consult the section Invoice Request.

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 and the possible limits of the card. 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 and the possible limits of the card. 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 receipt for the payment of public fees is issued in the name of the student. If it is to be paid by a company or public or private institution:
1. In automatic enrolment, select the Single payment option and the Bank Receipt payment method, validate the enrolment, file the receipt and send it to the company. A single receipt will be issued with the total amount of the registration fee that you have to pay.
2. The company must request the issuing of an invoice within the period stated on the receipt. Once requested, the receipt cannot be used for payment. The invoice contains the bank details for the company to make the 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. This non-payment it will not be interpreted as a request for cancellation of matriculation, which must be requested in accordance with the established procedure.

Failure to pay it entails that:

• No action can be taken on your file.
• The UAH:
  • Will demand payment of the debt when you want to re-enrol in any of its studies.
  • It will refuse to issue degrees and certificates when you have outstanding payments to make, and may establish a surcharge on these amounts equivalent to the interest accrued for the period of the debt at the official price of money.

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.
  • 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.

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.

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 and the possible limits of the card. 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.

• Cancellation of enrolment with the right to a refund

If for If for any reason you cannot take the Master in which you have enrolled, you must necessarily request the cancellation of your enrollment within the deadlines established for that purpose, without the need to justify any reason:

The payments made will be refunded, except for the €250 corresponding to the reservation of a place, the opening of the file and the secretarial fees. The refund is made ex officio if you have provided bank details to domicile the registration payment; Otherwise, you will expressly application for refund of public prices refund request that will be accompanied by the SEPA Mandate Order Request, hosted on MI PORTAL.

If enrollment outside the established deadlines has been authorized, the deadline for requesting cancellation of enrollment will be 15 calendar days.

The maximum term to resolve the request and notify the resolution is three months from the date on which the request has entered the email of the Secretary of Postgraduate Students and Own Studies. If within the indicated period we have not notified you of the resolution, you can understand that your request has been rejected.

• Cancellation of enrollment outside the established deadlines

At the end of the deadlines established to cancel the registration, in the event that there is a duly justified cause, you can make a request to the Vice Chancellor with competences in the matter, who will decide if the cancellation and the refund of the public prices proceed, in his opinion case.

The documentation justifying the reasons for the cancellation request must contain the minimum and necessary information and shall only be used to resolve the request.

The maximum term to resolve the request and notify the resolution is three months from the date on which the request has entered the email of the Secretary of Postgraduate Students and Own Studies. If within the indicated period we have not notified you of the resolution, you can understand that your request has been rejected.

• 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 cancellation request must be made through the web form located in Impresos/Matricula.

Application open: from 10:00 a.m. on September 19 until 11:59 p.m. on September 21, uninterrupted. As far as possible, please apply for credit recognition before 17:00, in the event of any incident, you can notify us either at secalum.posgrado@uah es or by calling 91 885 4300 for assistance.

Application. Application form and deadline

1. The recognition of credits is requested, once only, in the academic year in which the Master's Degree is commenced, with the exception of the Internship subject, whose recognition can be requested in the second or successive years of enrolment.
2. It is compulsory to enrol in the subjects for which recognition is requested; if recognition is granted, the subject will be recognised; if it is not granted, it remains enrolled and must be taken.
3. The application is completed online, and is submitted within the administrative deadlines set by the University for each academic year, exclusively through the "Form for online submission of the application and documentation for the recognition of credits", which will only be active during the period established for applying for recognition.

Before applying you need to know

1. The regulations on the system for the recognition and transfer of academic credits in university master's degrees.
2. Information on credit recognition for the Master's degree for which you are applying. It is published in Oferta/Planificació d'Ensenyament i Professorsat/Reconeixement de crèdits.
   The public price established for the study of the application depending on whether the studies have been carried out in a Spanish or foreign centre. Very important: You do not have to pay this fee if you are only applying for the recognition of subjects included in the following table:
   The automatic recognition table of the Master's degree (see Offering/Teaching Planning and Teaching Staff/Recognition of credits).
3. The open postgraduate programme or short postgraduate course, as long as the subjects belong to the Master's degree in which you are enrolled.
4. The Tutorial that will help you to apply for Credit Recognition in MI PORTAL.

1. Follow the steps in the Tutorial and go to Servicio de Reconocimiento de créditos, Convalidaciones y Adaptaciones, make the application and save it on your PC in PDF format
2. Create the receipt to pay for the study of the application in Academic data/Enrolment/Registration/Receipt management application, click on Other payments - New payment and select one of these two types of concepts in the drop-down menu:
   • Study application for recognition, credit transfer and validation of Spanish school studies.
   • Study request for recognition, credit transfer and validation of studies in foreign centres.
     Then click on Create the movement. Payment is essential to start the procedure, with the exceptions indicated.

Access the Form for telematic shipment of documents for recognition of credits

I. Insert the following documentation in PDF format. Very important: The documentation must be attached in a single submission.

1. The application for credit recognition.
2. Proof of having paid the application fee.
3. For university studies carried out in Spanish centres:
   1. Personal academic certificate of the studies completed.
   2. Teaching guide or syllabus for each subject taken for which credit recognition is requested, indicating the knowledge or content, competences and skills or abilities developed, the activities carried out and their length in credits or hours. The guide or syllabus must be for the academic year in which the subject was taken.
   3. Syllabus.
      It is not necessary to present this documentation if the studies from which the recognition is sought were taken at the UAH.
4. For university studies taken at foreign centres:
   1. Academic certification of the studies taken, stating the subjects taken, the grades obtained, the course load in hours or credits, the academic years in which they were taken and the grading system in which the academic certification was issued, with an express indication of the minimum and maximum grade of this system.
   2. Programme of the subjects taken and passed for which recognition of credits is requested, indicating the competences and knowledge acquired, the contents developed, the activities carried out and their extension in credits or hours. The syllabus must be for the academic year in which the subject was taken.
   3. Syllabus certified by the corresponding centre.Estos documentos tienen que reunir los requisitos que se establecen en el artículo 11 de la Normativa sobre el sistema de reconocimiento y transferencia de créditos académicos en los Másteres Universitarios.
5. For professional or work experience:
   
   1. Up-to-date curriculum vitae.
   2. Social Security employment record or equivalent document (foreign countries).
   3. Certificate(s) issued by the institution(s) or public or private company(ies) in which you have provided your services, indicating the functions or tasks carried out and the time spent.
   4. The Academic Committee of the Master's Degree may request other complementary documentation that it considers necessary to assess the suitability of the curriculum to the syllabus for which the recognition of credits is requested

II. Submit by the deadline and you will receive an email confirmation of your submission.

After the deadline for applying for recognition, we will review your application, and if you do not meet the requirements or have not provided the required documentation, we will notify you via your institutional email so that you can correct or provide the documentation within ten days. If you have not done so after this period, we will consider you to have withdrawn your application.

You can check the status of your requests by accessing MY PORTAL, and check whether the subjects for which you have applied for recognition are accepted, denied or pending resolution.

The express resolution will be notified to your institutional email. If your requests have been favourably resolved, your file will be updated with the corresponding public price, unless you are the beneficiary of an exemption that covers it. You can consult your receipts in My Portal.

It is three months from the date on which the application was received by the Secretary's Office for Postgraduate Students and UB-specific studies. This period is suspended when you have to rectify your application or provide the required documentation, for the time between the notification of the request and its effective fulfilment, or, failing that, for the expiry of the period granted.

Failure to expressly resolve the matter within the aforementioned period will mean that the application has been rejected.

The rejection of the application due to administrative silence has the effect of allowing the student to lodge an appeal to the Rector within three months from the day following the day on which the effects of the administrative silence occur, in accordance with the provisions of articles 24.2 and 122 of Law 39/2015, of 1 October, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations (BOE no. 236, of 2 October 2015).

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).