Formal Requirements

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 to have completed at the time of application 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, and related. 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.

  • Possible exception for scholarship application: A programme country student (NOT partner country student), who has fulfilled 150 credit points of a Bachelor degree can be accepted provisionally, if he/she provides the degree diploma/certificate until July 15.
  • Possible exception for applications of self-funded students: On the basis of an individual evalution – 150 credit points of a Bachelor degree 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!!!)

3. 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 with an English proficiency certificate from the University), or English as mother tongue.

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

  • TOEFL computer-based (CBT) 173
  • TOEFL internet-based (iBT) 61 (15 in each sub-category)
  • IELTS (academic) 6 (6 in each sub-category)
  • Cambridge FCE

If none of the English tests mentioned above are available, the application will not be eligible, only in very few specific cases the Selection Committee might accept to test English language skills in a personal interview.

It won’t be accepted as proof of English level, e.g.: English subjects, TOELF ITP or other TOELF modalities different from the mentioned above, IELTS general training, iTEP…

4. Students will have to apply in fully compliance to the admission procedure published at mastergeotech.info. Required documents to upload through out the application process are:

  • Online application form (see online application system)
  • Bachelor diploma AND the transcript of records in the original language
  • 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
  • If applicable: Master diploma AND the transcript of records in the original language
  • 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
  • Proof of English level, 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.
  • Proof of nationality (passport or national identification card):
  • If applicable:  If the country of residence within 6 months before application does not correspond to the nationality, in case of dual nationality or when the place of residence might be unclear, please document your residence by an appropriate documentation:
    • A residence certificate issued in accordance with the candidate’s municipality normal registration rules, or a
    • A certificate from the candidate’s place of work, study or training issued by the employer or institution in question that includes the name, date and postal address of the applicant.

5. Recommendation letters, minimum two. Applicants will include in their application form the contact details of at least two recommenders who will be contacted through our system to upload a letter of recommendation. The deadline for recommenders to submit the recommedation letters is January 15, we recommend applicants to contact their recommenders in advance to make sure the contact details (email) are correct and the recommender is willing to upload a recommendation letter for the applicant.

6. 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.

For enrollment at UJI, Spain, the following is required: (just for students who get selected)

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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