MUCSA - Admission and Registration

Registration Period

You can find all the information regarding registration on the UPM website:

http://www.upm.es/ Estudiantes/Estudios_Titulaciones/Estudios_Master

The applicable permanence rules are those included in the document for this purpose prepared by the Polytechnic University of Madrid (+info).

Registration Types

Registration can be done:

• Full-time: minimum 31 credits.        
• Part-time: minimum 12 credits.

Registration takes place annually in the ordinary period, with the exceptions provided for in Art.6.1.b. of the Enrollment Regulations for the 2020-21 Course, which allow the extension of enrollment in the extraordinary period. (See School menu, Enrollment).

Access Requirements

According to RD 1393/2007, of October 29, which establishes the organization of official university education, to access official Master's education it will be necessary to be in possession of an official Spanish university degree or another issued by an institution. of higher education belonging to another State that is a member of the European Higher Education Area that authorizes access to Master's degrees therein.

Likewise, graduates may access graduates in accordance with educational systems outside the European Higher Education Area without the need for homologation of their degrees, after verification by the University that they accredit a level of training equivalent to the corresponding official Spanish university degrees and that they entitle the country issuing the degree to access postgraduate education. Access through this route will not imply, in any case, the homologation of the previous degree that the interested party holds, nor its recognition for purposes other than that of taking Master's degrees.

Students must apply for admission to the Official Postgraduate Program and the Degree they desire, as specified in each Program. Admission will be granted by the body responsible for the Degree or Commissions to whom it delegates, in accordance with the qualification and specific training requirements and the selection criteria established for access.

The Vice-Rector for Academic Strategy is in charge of verifying the access of all students pre-registered in their University Master's programs.

The body responsible for the admission of students to the Master's Degree in Soil and Groundwater Pollution will be the Academic Planning Committee of the Master's Degree.

Specifically, graduates of degrees in engineering or science with links to the field of Earth Sciences will have direct access to the Master:

• Agronomic
• Environmental
• Civil
• Forest
• Geology
• Mines
• Chemistry

or their equivalents from previous study plans.

Exceptionally, and following a favorable report from the Master's Academic Committee, graduates with degrees in engineering or science linked to the field of Life Sciences: Biology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Toxicology will be able to access the Master's Degree. For these candidates, the Academic Committee of the program will require training supplements (up to a maximum of 16.5 ECTS) in the form of the following subjects of Geology and Hydrogeology of the Graduate Degree in Geological Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Training Supplements) .

No more entry profiles are contemplated.

Students who meet the academic requirements set forth must provide a certificate from a recognized institution that guarantees their ability to take those subjects taught in English, which is considered comparable to a B2 level or equivalent. If they do not have it, they may undergo an oral and written language test provided by the Academic Committee of the Master.

No other special entrance tests are contemplated.