Higher education institutions have more than six thousand places for students who want to compete in the second phase of the National Access Competition, but there are four institutions that already have no vacancy.
These are some of the data released by the Directorate-General for Higher Education (DGES), on the day the results of the 1st phase of the National Competition for Access to Higher Education are known.
On Monday the second phase of the competition kicks off and the institutions have at least 6050 places for students, that is, half the number of students who were left out in the 1st phase.
But not all institutions have vacancies: ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, for example, repeats the situation of last year, having filled all the 1338 places it has made available.
There were also no vacancies at the Nursing Schools of Coimbra, Lisbon and Porto, according to DGES data.
The Universidade Nova de Lisboa also emerges as one of the most sought after schools, having only one of the nearly three thousand places it made available for this phase. Last year, Nova appeared alongside ISCTE as the two institutions whose demand from students filled all vacancies.
More vacancies remain in the Interior
Conversely, the institution with the least vacancies filled in this 1st phase is the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança: Of the 2160 places available, 1029 were occupied, that is, about half.
Also on this list are the Instituto Politécnico da Guarda which has 512 seats left, the Polytechnic of Viseu with 484 places, the Castelo Branco which has 400 and the Viana do Castelo with 375 places.
This year many more students competed in the 1st phase (an increase of 15% compared to last year) and about 12 thousand failed to obtain placement.
Of the 56,121 vacancies that were available, 6,050 vacancies remained for the 2nd phase of the competition, representing a 10% decrease in relation to the same phase of the 2019 competition.
Last year, in the 2nd phase there were 6,734 seats and, in 2015, the number was even higher, with 8,714 places available for students who competed in the 2nd phase.
Despite these figures, institutions can increase the number of vacancies by transferring fixed and unoccupied vacancies in special competitions for access and entry to higher education, should new vacancies be filled in special competitions in higher education institutions by at the beginning of October, stresses the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.
Between Monday, September 28, and October 9, applications for the 2nd phase of the national competition for access to the academic year 2020/2021 will be presented.
The results of the first phase of the contest are available on the Internet since 00:01 today on the website of the Directorate-General for Higher Education (http://www.dges.gov.pt), which can also be consulted through the application ES Access, available on iOS and Android platforms.
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