Academic information

Important context: Teaching and evaluation system, and the enrollment capacity in the subjects.

At the UPV, you won’t find auditorium-style classrooms or an academic system in which students decide whether to attend class or not. Classes are typically not recorded, and in-person attendance is generally required.

Final exams account for only a small percentage of the final grade, and students earn points through various assessment activities conducted during class time, including classroom exercises, presentations, group work, laboratory exercises, or mid-semester exams.

For all these reasons, all UPV courses have limited capacity (available places). The courses you can take during the UPV application phase will only be a preliminary list.

Since class attendance is so important at the UPV, after the schedules are published (June-July) and a few weeks before the start of the semester, you should reconfirm your course choices, looking for a combination of schedules that do not overlap. You can make adjustments to the final list of courses if necessary.

The registration process is completed at the beginning of the semester. The International Office staff at your admissions school or faculty will do their best to enroll you in each of your chosen courses, but sometimes some courses receive more applications than available places, and it may be impossible to confirm enrollment in some of them.

What subjects can I choose?

We do not offer specific courses for exchange students. Exchange students are enrolled in the same subjects as our UPV students, which are mostly taught in Spanish.

Undergraduate studies (4 years and 240 ECTS credits, except Architecture)

Master’s studies (1-2 years, 60-120 ECTS)

You can also explore the  web page of your School or Faculty of the UPV of admission and look for their careers.

You must take the majority of your credits at the UPV School or Faculty for which you have been selected by your home university. This depends on the bilateral agreement that has been signed. Consult with your host institution.

Once you know which UPV School or Faculty you can be nominated to, choose the study program you are interested in and view the courses in the section “Curriculum > Courses” (left menu

We recommend that you use the “View subjects by modules and subjects” button. It is used to sort the subjects by area of study. This view will give you useful information about the semester in which the subjects are offered, as well as the active and inactive subjects for each academic year.

Subjects with classes between September and January are listed as “Semester A”. Semester B” subjects are taught between February and June. Some subjects are annual (beginning in September and ending in June), and appear as “Semester T”.

Active subjects each course appear with a green check mark √ under the “Ofe,” column.

Between February and June, the structure of each program of study offers a drop-down menu with the current academic year and the following one(starting in September).

By clicking on the name of a subject, you will see a detailed description (Guía Docente), which is usually published for the following academic year in June.

Before June-July, if you need to see the detailed description of any subject, you must use the academic year drop-down menu and search for the same subject in the previous academic year..

Useful tools to search for subjects

• Subject finder with filters by School/Faculty, level, language and semester
  
  Please note that the Subject Finder shows you the entire academic offer of the UPV. Some subjects or careers may have  restrictions or coditions for exchange students or by agreement with your university.
• Timetable simulator
  
  This tool allows you to create a simulation of a possible timetable at UPV combining subjects from different UPV degrees, even from different Schools/Faculties. Please note that the class schedules for each academic year are published in this tool on July 1st.
• List of subjects in English
  
  The list of courses in English for the next academic year is not updated until May. Students applying to come in September should rely on the previous year’s course list, which is usually very similar. Places are limited.

Important

• Make sure that the courses you choose are offered in the semester corresponding to your stay (A or B).
• UPV Schools/Faculties recommend (and sometimes require) a minimum academic load of 20 ECTS per semester.
• You can select subjects from a School/Faculty different from your School of admission to the UPV, but there are limits.The limit is 12 ECTS for a 30 ECTS enrollment (semester) or 24 ECTS for a 60 ECTS enrollment (full year). If you enroll for fewer credits, the credit limit in other schools will be reduced proportionally.
• If you study in the Alcoy campus, you cannot take courses at other campuses.
• If you study at the Gandía campus, you can apply for some credits from the Valencia campus, but you must take into account that the trip between Valencia and Gandía by public transport takes approximately 90 minutes..
• Some schools may have prerequisites for certain subjects; language requirementso restrictions in its academic offeringsas well as previous knowledge requirements. Consult  academic restrictions in this LINK
• Check the language of the subjects you select and make sure you meet the requirements..  Please read the information on language requirements carefully.
• You will need to reconfirm or modify your course selection and schedule at the beginning of the semester. You will receive instructions and information about the process of enrolling in courses, or “matriculation” during the pre-arrival phase.
• Think about alternative options in case of changes in your course selection (due to overlapping schedules, lack of places, etc.). We have a wide range of courses available; Don’t panic !

The list of subjects in English will be updated each year around May. Until then, you can plan your tentative study plan with the current link. Changes from one academic year to the next are not usually significan.

Some courses may have academic rectrictions, please check the document above.

The search engine shows all the academic offerings of the UPV. Some courses or degrees may be restricted according to agreements. In these cases the courses/degrees will not be available on the AIRE platform at the time of the admission application.

Course schedules for the next academic year (early September – late June) will not be available in this tool until July 1.

SPANISH SYSTEM OF QUALIFICATIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

The grading system in force at the Universitat Politècnica de València is the same for all higher education institutions in Spain.

Students’ academic performance is evaluated using a rating scale of 0 to 10 points, where “0” corresponds to the lowest possible grade and “10” corresponds to 100% achievement of the learning objectives.

Grades are expressed in numbers from 0 to 10 with 1 or 2 decimal places (if applicable) and are recorded as follows, from lowest to highest score.

The weighted average grade is calculated according to the following principle: sum of the credits obtained multiplied by the corresponding grade for each subject, divided by the number of total credits obtained by the student.

Some credits obtained through credit recognition or corresponding to extracurricular activities (cultural activities, sports, student representation, cooperation and volunteering, etc.) will not have a numerical score but only a score of “PASSED” and will not be counted for the calculation of the academic average.

In science and engineering courses, it is relatively normal that grades are not very high, especially in basic and compulsory subjects in courses that provide a professional qualification.(direct access to full professional license and professional association).

Course schedules for the next academic year (early September – late June) will not be available in this tool until July 1.