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Access for people over 40 years of age with work and professional experience

Specific access for people over 40 years who have work and professional experience related to the degree they wish to study.

Requirements

  • To be 40 years old or become 40 before 1 January 2025.
  • Proof of work and professional experience related to the desired degree.
  • To pass a personal interview of suitability of the experience to the profile of the requested degree.
  • To not possess any academic degree to access the university by any other means.

The assessment of work and professional experience is structured in two obligatory stages. In order to pass the evaluation it is necessary to obtain a minimum of 4 points out of 10 in each one of them.

  • 1st stage: work and professional experience (up to 6 points); training (up to 2 points); Galician (up to 1 point); other merits (up to 1 point)
  • 2nd stage: personal interview (up to 10 points)

 

You must accompany your application with a copy of your National Id (DNI) or passport, your curriculum vitae (following this model) and, if applicable, proof of the reduction or exemption of public prices.

The submission of the application must be made at the USC Electronic Headquarters. Only in case of the impossibility of submitting this at the Electronic Headquarters is it possible to make the application in person at the Academic Management Office in Colexio San Xerome (Praza do Obradoiro s/n, 15782 Santiago de Compostela) or in the Academic Management Office of the Campus of Lugo (Edif. Biblioteca Intercentros, 27002 Campus Universitario, Lugo)

On submitting the application in the electronic headquarters, a form will be generated for the payment of the enrolment fee of €63.67, which will have to be paid at the same time.

If you make the request in person, the settlement form will be generated at the time of submitting it.  

Once the fees have been paid, you must send a copy of the proof of payment to the sxa [at] usc.gal (electronic address) of the Academic Management Office. The payment must be made within the enrolment period.

You can only apply for one degree in each call. Exceptionally, more than one degree may be awarded if the dates of the second stage (interview) do not coincide. In this case, a settlement fee will be generated for each degree.

If you pass the exam, you will have to enrol for the chosen degree within the period set by the Academic Management Office.

Call for application 10 to 28 February
Publication of the tribunals 7 March
Publication of the first and second stage assessment criteria 14 March
Publication of results of the first stage 27 March
Second stage: interviews 21 to 25 April*
Publication of stage two qualifications and final qualifications 2 May
Publication of final qualifications after review 15 May

* The specific dates and times for each candidate will be published together with the qualifications of the first stage.

Documentation

The contents of this page were updated on 02.10.2025.