Number of exam sessions in the University Master's Degree programs

In each academic year, students enrolled in any University Master's Degree at the University of Alcalá will have two exam sessions, one ordinary and one extraordinary in those subjects in which they are formally enrolled. The maximum number of sittings per subject will be four.

Students who exhaust these sittings in any subject/s, upon reasoned request to the competent body, may have a single additional registration, which entitles them to two sittings, unless they have exhausted their stay in the Master's Degree.

The exhaustion of the scheduled sittings will determine the impossibility of continuing the studies started.

Exam sessions brought forward in Master's Degree studies

Definition: An exam session brought forward substitutes the ordinary sesion for second-term or annual subjects.

Subjects for which the bringing forward of exam sessions may be requested: compulsory and optional second-term or annual subjects.

If the duration of your Placement or Final Master’s Project is “I: Indefinite in time”, there is no need to request a dedicatyed exam sesión. To find out, check the Programme of Studies for matriculation on the Postgraduate School website.  

Academic requirements for applications: Students who have passed 80% of their first-year credits may apply. In order to compute this calculation, the Master's Thesis will not be taken into account, and students must have been evaluated at least once in the subjects for which they are requesting an advanced call.

In this call the evaluation will be final.

Application: During the registration period, students who meet the academic requirements will mark in the self-registration application the advanced call option.

Once it has been verified that the student meets the requirements, the ordinary exam session will be transferred to the January exam session. The extraordinary exam session in June will remain fixed in any case.

Renunciation of the application: By writing to the Student Secretary's Office before January 1.

Credits to be passed in the first year

The Governing Council of the UAH in its session dated June 30, 2023, agreed that the student must pass in his first year of the Master's degree subjects that represent at least:

• 12 ECTS credits, if the studies are carried out on a full-time basis.
• 6 ECTS credits, if the studies are part-time.

Failure to obtain this minimum number of credits will make it impossible to continue the studies started.

Years of continuance

The UAH Governing Council, in its session of June 30, 2023, established that the maximum number of years of permanence in the Master's degree program will be:

Full-time:

• 2 years for masters with a teaching load of 60 ECTS.
• 3 years for masters with a course load of 90 ECTS.
• 4 years for master's degrees with a course load of 120 ECTS.

Part-time:

• 3 years for master's degrees with a course load of 60 ECTS.
• 4 years for master's degrees with a course load of 90 ECTS.
• 5 years for masters with a course load of 120 ECTS.

Only those years in which the student has effectively formalized his/her enrollment and has not requested cancellation of the enrollment are counted as years of permanence. When part-time and full-time study periods are combined, the maximum number of years of permanence established for part-time study will be applied.

Students coming from another Master of the University of Alcalá will be computed the credits that are subject to recognition and will be entitled to a permanence equivalent to the remaining time of the unexhausted permanence in the Master of origin.

End of continuance

If you exhaust the number of years foreseen in the previous section, you may request an extension provided that no more than two academic years have elapsed since the last academic year in which you were enrolled.

The application for the extension of your stay must be completed electronically and submitted within the deadline established for each academic year (outside this period the application is not active and the request cannot be made).

The request must be justified and must be accompanied by documentation that justifies the existence of any of the following circumstances that have affected the academic performance:

1. Serious illness of the student or of relatives by affinity or consanguinity up to the second degree of the straight line.
2. Death of direct family members: parents, spouse, domestic partner or person in a similar relationship, children or siblings.
3. Extraordinary situations in the simultaneity of studies and work.
4. Extraordinary situations in the simultaneity of studies and sports of the students enrolled in the DEPORDES program.

Recommendations regarding the documentation to be submitted:

1. Health problems: they must be accredited by a report from the Public Health Service or administrative body of the Autonomous Community, or, if applicable, from the corresponding concerted or private health entity.
2. Death: death certificate.
3. Simultaneous studies and work: Updated Social Security employment record and employment contract reported to the SEPE by the employer. Or Registration in the special self-employed regime and annual VAT declaration or similar for self-employed workers.
4. Refusal of the visa: resolution.

For letters a, b and c the equivalent documentation will be presented if it has been issued in foreign countries, and it will be presented translated by a sworn translator in the cases of section II of the Document of Legalization and translation, collation and verification of documents.

If necessary, it may be requested to complete or provide additional documentation.

The competent body to resolve is the Vice Rector or Vice Rector with competence in the matter. A report from the Master's Academic Committee will be required when the student has exhausted the maximum number of years of permanence. The report will take into account the application and the academic record.

If the resolution is favorable, the requested extension will be granted for one more academic year; you will have to enroll in the academic year for which the extension is granted. If the resolution is unfavorable, you will not be able to continue the Master's program you have started, but you will be able to apply for admission to another Master's program.

Record transfers may be applied for in the pre-registration periods established for each academic year.

• The students, who has begun an enabling Universitary Master in another Spanish University and want to continue with the same studies at the UAH, must apply for the pre-registration, and if they are admitted, present the official academic certificate for record transfer. Moreover, they can apply for recognition of credits from the subjects passed at their home University or centre of origin.
• The students who has begun a Universitary Master in another centre of the Universidad de Alcalá (from this point forward UAH) who want to continue with the same studies at the UAH must apply for the pre-registration, and if they are admitted, present the official academic certificate for record transfer. Moreover, they can apply recognition of credits from subjects passed at their home University or centre of origin.
• Students who have taken part time Doctorate courses may be admitted to University Master's degree courses, and obtain the qualification of Master's degree, providing that they are accepted on them, and they can apply for recognition of the credits from courses and their introductory research studies carried out at their home University.
• Students applying for a transfer of credits will have to transfer their academic transcript in accordance with the stipulations of this University’s Regulations for the recognition and transfer system for credits in official university master's degree courses.