Incoming
- All incoming students must be nominated by their home university before applying to attend UCA.
- Applicants must have completed at least 4 semester studies and have a good academic performance at their home universities.
- Non-native Spanish speakers must present proof of their Spanish proficiency. When applying, we recommend they have taken at least 3 semesters of Spanish language.
- Placement test on Spanish is administrated upon arrival to all non native Spanish speakers. Students who do not reach the “Advanced” level, must attend a Spanish course during their exchange period. This course can be taken at UCA or at any private institute.
- Accepted students are allowed to take classes from the Faculties and from the Latin American studies program (PEL).
- Some courses may have Spanish high level proficiency requirements.
- Each school has an academic coordinator for exchange students. He/she helps students during the whole semester in all academic matters (course contents and workload, registration, exams, schedules).
- Exchange students pay tuition to their home university for the semester or year they spend at UCA.
- If UCA does not have an exchange agreement with a particular university, students can apply as “free mover” students and pay tuition directly to UCA.
Assessment.
In order to approve the courses, students must accomplish the following requisites:
- Minimum attendance of 75% of the classes.
- Complete and approve all midterm, papers or any other form of evaluation required by the professor.
- Approve the final exam.
Credit system.
In order to be considered a full time international student, UCA requires students to take a minimum of 12 credits. A regular UCA student takes 15-20 credits per semester. 1 UCA credit is equivalent to 1 class hour per week (1 class hour = 45 minutes). One semester at UCA is 16 weeks of classes (except the Economic School that has 17 weeks).
