An international student is one who does not have Portuguese nationality. 
An international student is not considered to be in any of the following situations:

1. Being a national of a Member State of the European Union or a national of a State Party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area;
2. Being a family member of a Portuguese national, a national of another Member State of the European Union or a national of a State Party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, regardless of their nationality;
3. Not being a national of a Member State of the European Union, or of a State Party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and not being covered by the previous number, have been legally resident in Portugal for more than two years, uninterruptedly, on January 1st of the year in which they intend to enter higher education, as well as their children who are legally resident with them, without prejudice to the time of residence with authorization to study in secondary education in Portugal;
4. Being a beneficiary, on January 1st of the year in which they intends to enter higher education, of equal rights and duties status granted under an international treaty or agreement signed between the Portuguese State and the State of which they are a national;
5. Having requested entry to higher education through the special access and entry to higher education schemes regulated in chapter II of Decree-Law no. 64-A/2023, of 31 January. º 64-A/2023, of July 31.

Family members of Portuguese nationals or nationals of a Member State of the European Union, regardless of their nationality, are understood to be

1. The spouse of a citizen of the European Union;
2. The partner with whom a citizen of the Union lives in a de facto union, constituted under the terms of the law, or with whom the citizen of the Union maintains a permanent relationship duly certified by the competent authority of the member state where he/she resides;
3. The direct descendant under 21 years of age or who is the dependent of a citizen of the Union, as well as that of the spouse or partner within the meaning of the previous paragraph;
4. The direct ascendant who is the dependent of a citizen of the Union, as well as that of the spouse or partner within the meaning of paragraph 2.

 

1st phase of application
(for national students, European Union citizens and residents in Portugal, and international students)

Application > February 18 - March 18, 2026
Publication of results > after April 15, 2026
Enrolment of admitted candidates > within 5 days after receiving the enrolment instructions

2nd phase of application
(for national students, European Union citizens and residents in Portugal, and international students)

The 2nd phase of application will only be available in courses with surplus places from the 1st phase.

Information on vacancies for the 2nd phase of applications will be posted on this page.

Application > April 22 - May 6, 2026
Publication of results > after May 20, 2026
Enrolment of admitted candidates > within 5 days after receiving the enrolment instructions

3rd phase of application
(for national students, European Union citizens and residents in Portugal)

The 3rd phase of application will only be available in courses with surplus places from the 2nd phase.

Information on vacancies for the 3rd phase of applications will be posted on this page.

Application >  May 27 - June 10, 2026
Publication of results > after June 24, 2026
Enrolment of admitted candidates > within 5 days after receiving the enrolment instructions

Applications are made exclusively online through the Fenix platform.
For the presentation of the application, a non-refundable application fee is due:

• Application in the 1st phase: 40 EUR
• Application in the 2nd phase: 50 EUR
• Application in the 3rd phase: 60 EUR

Before you initiate your on-line application to the course please read carefully the instructions below. For questions regarding the submission of your application do not hesitate to contact the Faculty’s Academic Services

1. To make your online application, you must access the Fenix system and authenticate with the data of your Campus@ULisboa account. If you have lost access to your Campus@ULisboa account, you can make the recovery here
2. If you haven’t attended any course at Faculdade de Belas-Artes and have no Campus@ULisboa account, you must necessarily carry out a pre-registration in Fenix application here
3. After accessing the application, you must select the Applications tab. Next, you must create your application by choosing the regime and the course. After these steps, you must fill the requested data in the electronic form.
4. All the documents required for the application process must be attached in digital format.
5. The online application will become valid only after payment of the application fee. For that purpose, an ATM payment reference is made available (only usable under the portuguese banking system). It is also possible to make the payment by credit/debit card. If the payment is not made until the indicated deadline, the application will be canceled.
6. The non-submission of the required documents, or the incorrect presentation (e.g., Illegible document, not legalized foreign document, etc.) will invalidate the application. The candidate will be informed of this fact by the Fenix platform or by e-mail.
7. Errors or omissions in filling out the electronic application form, or in carrying out the application process, are the sole responsibility of the candidate.

After the ranking process, applicants will be informed by email of the final result of the application. In case of acceptance, it will be dependent on the presentation at the Academic Services of the original (or a legal copy) of the degree certificate, during the indicated period.

All notifications about the application process will be sent by e-mail to the e-mail address indicated as “Principal” in the application’s personal data sheet.

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The available positions for each of the courses, for admission in the 2026/2027 academic year, 3th phase of application, are indicated below:

	Vacancies National Students, European Union Citizens and Residents in Portugal	Vacancies International Students
multimedia art	7(*)	-
conservation of modern and contemporary art	8 (*) (a)	-
art criticism and curatorial studies	8 (*)	-
drawing	1(*)	-
communication design	8 (*)	-
equipment design	2(*)	-
design for sustainability	6(*)	-
art education	8 (*)	-
sculpture	3 (*)	-
museology and museography	8 (*)	-
painting	-	-
contemporary editorial and typographical practices	11(*)	-

(*) The above number of vacancies includes APEX vacancies.

(a) Due to the strong laboratory component of the study programme, the Higher Education Assessment and Accreditation Agency has set the maximum number of admissions at 15 students,

The application process will include the following documents:

• Certificate of the academic degree or equivalent (present the original at the Academic Services in case of admission)*;
• Transcript of records;
• Academic, scientific or professional curriculum vitae (CV), with copies of the documents to which it refers to;
• Letter of application / motivation to the attend of the Master;
• Copy of identification document (passport, UE citizen card, etc.);
• For students who are covered by the International Student Statute, a sworn statement that you are not a Portuguese national or covered by any of the conditions that, according to the International Student Statute, do not grant you the status of International Student;
• For the Masters in Multimedia Art, Drawing, Communication Design, Equipment Design, Sculpture, Painting and Contemporary Typographic and Editorial Practices, it is also necessary to submit a portfolio or documentation representing the work you have done. If there are audiovisual records, you can indicate a link to a digital repository in a specific area of the portfolio.

All documents required for the application process must be submitted in digital format, as a pdf files.

 

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Legalization of foreign documents

If you have completed your degree/course abroad, and haven’t made any prior application for it’s registration, recognition or equivalence in Portugal, for the Mestrado application process it’s required the legalization of your degree certificate under the Portuguese legislation. Authentic documents issued in a foreign country are considered legalized in Portugal as long as the signature of the public servent who issued it is recognized by a portuguese diplomatic or consular officer in that country and authenticated with the respective consular stamp.

Alternatively, if the country in which you completed your degree has acceded to the Convention on the Abolition of the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Acts, concluded in The Hague on 5 October 1961, you can authenticate the certificate using the Hague Apostille Convention.

Certificates issued in member countries of the European Union do not require legalization. 

If the documents are not in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish, they must be translated into one of these languages by a translator recognized by the Portuguese diplomatic representation in the country where the document was issued. The following authorities can also carry out and certify translations: notaries; consulate in Portugal of the country where the document was issued and suitable translator; conservadores of any Conservatória; lawyers and solicitadores.

The available positions for each of the courses, for admission in the 2026/2027 academic year, 1st phase of application, are indicated below:

	Vacancies National Students, European Union Citizens and Residents in Portugal	Vacancies International Students
performing arts and the moving image	-	6
fine-arts	13 (*)	6

(*) The above number of vacancies includes 1 APEX vacancies.

For PhD’s:

Legalization of foreign documents

If you have completed your degree/course abroad, and haven’t made any prior application for it’s registration, recognition or equivalence in Portugal, for the Mestrado application process it’s required the legalization of your degree certificate under the Portuguese legislation. Authentic documents issued in a foreign country are considered legalized in Portugal as long as the signature of the public servent who issued it is recognized by a portuguese diplomatic or consular officer in that country and authenticated with the respective consular stamp.

Alternatively, if the country in which you completed your degree has acceded to the Convention on the Abolition of the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Acts, concluded in The Hague on 5 October 1961, you can authenticate the certificate using the Hague Apostille Convention.

Certificates issued in member countries of the European Union do not require legalization. 

If the documents are not in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish, they must be translated into one of these languages by a translator recognized by the Portuguese diplomatic representation in the country where the document was issued. The following authorities can also carry out and certify translations: notaries; consulate in Portugal of the country where the document was issued and suitable translator; conservadores of any Conservatória; lawyers and solicitadores.

In the process of selection there’s an overall assessment of your application, subject to a numerical scale of 0 to 20 values, in which the following criteria will be considered:

1. Final rank of academic degree. In the case of academic degrees obtained in foreign higher education institutions (when the foreign higher education institution adopts a different scale from the Portuguese), the mark will be the result of the proportional conversion of the obtained grade to the Portuguese grading system;
2. Academic, scientific, technical and artistic curriculum and / or portfolio. 

Applicants will be ranked according to the score obtained in the evaluation, resulting from the simple arithmetic average of the classifications attributed to each of the selection criteria, and candidates who obtain a grade lower than 9.5 will be excluded from the selection procedure. The assessment parameters are described in Annex I to the Regulation of Graduate Studies of the Faculty of Fine Arts.

An interview can take place if the Course Coordinator considers necessary, in which case it will be included in the evaluation criteria indicated above. Candidates who do not attend the interview will be excluded from the selection procedure.

Placement on the Master is only valid for enrolment and registration in the academic year to which the application relates.

Admitted applicants must enrol and register by the established deadline. When enrolling and registering, the registration fee and the first instalment of the tuition fee due to attend the course must be paid. In the case of international students, the first instalment corresponds to 30% of the total tuition fee.

The Academic Services can only issue any declaration of acceptance to students approved and admitted in the selection process, and this is conditional on payment of the amounts mentioned (registration fee and the first instalment of the tuition fee).

In the event of withdrawal, consult the information here, and the payment made for enrolment and registration will not be refunded, except in the situations provided for therein.

The opening and functioning of each course is subject to a minimum of 10 candidates registered and enrolled to that course.

Whenever a successful candidate fails to register and enrol by the deadline, the Faculty may admit the next candidate on the ranked list resulting from the application of the evaluation criteria, until the position is actually filled or there are no candidates for the competition in question.

For more detailed information, you can consult the Postgraduate Studies Regulations of the Faculdade de Belas Artes.

Students who enrol in higher education under the Statute of the International Student (Decree-Law no. 36/2014 of 10 March) maintain the status of international student until the end of the course in which enrol initially or to which change afterwards. Exceptions to this provision are applied to international students who acquire the nationality of an EU Member State. In this situation, the termination of the application of international student status as a result of the acquisition of the nationality of an EU Member State takes effect in the academic year following the date of acquisition of nationality.

Consult the Regulamento de Ingresso e Acesso para Estudantes Internacionais da Universidade de Lisboa.

Consult also the Universidade de Lisboa website, where you’ll find a comprehensive set of practical information (on accommodation, living costs, visas, etc.) for international students.

See also our FAQ’s (Frequently Asked Questions) area on International Students.