Admission requirements
The basic
admission requirements are common to all Official Masters of
the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) offered in Spain.
Please take a careful look at them
here.
In addition to these basic requirements, admission to
the Master in Biophysics requires the possession of an
academic degree in sciences or engineering. The Master is
addressed primarily to students with prior training in
Physics, Biology, and Chemistry, but students with
training in other scientific or engineering disciplines will
also be considered. The Master is in English unless all
students are native Spanish or Catalan speakers. Hence,
knowledge of the English language is important.
Selection criteria
The candidates
should be in possession of an academic bachelor degree, and the
analysis of the overall academic track and scores will be the
major selection criteria. The Master requires an adequate basis in
Physics and Mathematics, and therefore the candidate's academic
record should show sufficient knowledge in these two fields. It
will be considered as an additional merit a basic background in
Biology and Chemistry.
The Master Coordination Committee will also consider during the
evaluation procedure the knowledge of the English language, which
should be adequate to follow the courses, communicate with the
lecturers and eventually write assignments. Finally, the Committee
will also take into account the motivation and interest of the
student for the master.
Starting date
The Master is organized in two semesters: Fall (September through January) and Spring (February through July). You can start the
program in either semester. However, each course is offered
only in one of the two semesters. Although the more natural
sequence is to take first the Fall and then the Spring
semester, the inverse order is also
possible.
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
For the academic year 2011-12, enrollment is
only possible in September 2011
(there will not be enrollment during February 2012!)
Admission procedure
Admission to the Master program
takes place in two steps: Pre-enrollment and Enrollment. There is a
limited number of places available, therefore applicants must
pre-enroll to be admitted for enrollment.
The documentation needed for pre-enrollment and enrollment depends on the country where the applicant studied, as shown here.
Pre-enrollment
Pre-enrollment is possible during the
following periods of the year:
Period 1 (suggested for
students starting either in the Spring or Fall semesters): Novermber
1 ---
January 31.
Period 2 (suggested for
students starting in the Spring semester): March 1 --- August 31.
The
pre-enrollment applications are evaluated by the Master Coordination
Committee four times a year, and according to the following
deadlines:
- For students begining in
Fall 2010: January 29th, 2010; April 14th, 2010; July 14th , 2010;
September 8th, 2010.
- For students begining in Spring 2010: January 29th, 2010.
Admissions will be posted on this
website within two weeks after the
deadline. During the first admission period not all places will be
assigned in order to reserve a certain number of places for the
other admission periods.
To pre-enroll, you must complete an
online
application and e-mail the
following documents (in Spanish, Catalan or English) to
masterbiofisica@ecm.ub.es:
A 1. Copy of the certificate of your academic degree.
A 2. Academic transcripts.
A 3. Curriculum vitae (detailing your level of knowledge of English, Spanish and Catalan languages and your computer skills).
A 4. For holders of a degree obtained outside de EHEA, the following documents are also required:
- A copy of the certificate listing the course units completed.
- A copy of a document certifying that your degree enables you to
access postgraduate studies in the country where you did your
degree.
We encourage the applicants to include (in the
e-mail containing the pre-enrollment documents) a brief
explanation of his/her academic background and the motivation or
interest for enrolling into the Biophysics Master.
IMPORTANT: Online applications that are not followed by any documentation whithin 10 days will be automatically rejected.
Students with former foreign studies
Holders of a degree obtained outside
the EHEA, and which has not been officially validated or homologated
to a Spanish degree, must apply for authorization by the University
of Barcelona to be fully admitted into a Master program. Without
this authorization you can only be conditionally admitted at the
pre-enrollment stage, and you will need to apply for the
authorization and obtain it before enrollment. Students that wish to
have full admission into the Master at the pre-enrollment stage are
required to apply for this authorization prior to the evaluation
deadlines indicated above.
Documents required for the
authorization are:
B1. Application form
(form):
B2. Official copy of the degree certificate or equivalent (authenticated
and officially translated into Spanish or Catalan by the appropiate
diplomatic channel);
B3. Official copy of the
certificate listing the course units completed (authenticated by
the appropriate diplomatic channel) (*);
B4. A document
certifying that your degree enables you to access postgraduate
studies in the country where you did your degree (authenticated
and officially translated into Spanish or Catalan by the
appropriate diplomatic channel).
(*) Translation is not required as far as the academic transcripts
are in any of the following languages: Spanish, English, French,
Portuguese, German or Italian. If the transcripts are in another
language, please contact the coordinator to know if they require
translation.
The application form B1 (in Spanish)
includes the instructions for each
country on how to authenticate and officially translate the
documents by the
appropriate
diplomatic channel.
These documents must be sent to:
-
Dr. Jordi Soriano
Fradera
Students Admission Coordinator, Master
in Biophysics
Dept. Estructura i Constituents de la
Matèria
-
Facultat de
Física, Universitat de Barcelona
Av. Diagonal 647, E-08028 Barcelona,
Spain
Important: This authorization is valid only
for enrollment into the Master in Biophysics and does not imply
recognition or validation of the degree certificate.
Enrollment
(registration)
You will be admitted for enrollment
if your pre-enrollment application is accepted by the Coordination
Committee and, for non-EHEA degree holders, you have obtained the
admission authorization described above. Enrollment time periods are
usually one or two weeks before the begining of the lectures, which
corresponds to September for the Fall semester, and February for the
Spring semester. The exact dates vary every year and will be
communicated to the student in advance. Before enrolling into the individual
courses and modules you must contact the Master Coordinator in
charge of Admission at masterbiofisica@ecm.ub.es to design your Master’s curriculum. Documents required for enrollment
are listed here.
In addition, the student needs:
1. Approved admission authorization form (for
non-EHEA degree holders).
2.
Form
signed by the Admission Coordinator that specifies the courses that
you will enroll. | 
