Estudiantes

Foreign Students

Special Admision

Special Admision

Eligible applicants

  • Individuals with an undergraduate degree, professional title or technical licence.
  • Chilean citizens and foreign nationals possessing a Certificate of Secondary School Education, or its equivalent, awarded outside Chile.
  • Students from other Higher Education institutions in Chile and abroad.
  • Secondary school graduates with special academic, sporting, artistic or vocational merits.
  • Students from other Faculties of Universidad Diego Portales wishing to apply for an internal transfer or a parallel degree course.

Application requirements, by category

  1. Individuals with an undergraduate degree, professional title or technical licence: - Notarized photocopy of Degree Certificate
    • Notarized photocopy of Official Transcript of grades.
  2. Foreign nationals and Chilean citizens who have obtained their Certificate of Secondary School Education outside Chile or who are presenting a certificate of equivalence:
    • Notarized photocopy of their Secondary School Certificate or of the equivalent certification.
    • Notarized photocopy of the Official Transcript of Secondary School grades or its equivalent, with grade conversion tables attached when relevant.
  3. Students from other Higher Education institutions in Chile and abroad:

    Official Transcript of grades.
    • Curriculum for each course in which certification is requested.
    • Certificate or Declaration issued by the Institution of origin certifying that no impediment exists for the applicant to continue pursuing a course of studies at that institution.
    • University Entrance Examination results (for the year of admission to the first degree course).
  4. Secondary school graduates with special merits:
    1. Academic, artistic or vocational merit:
      • Notarized photocopy of the Official Transcript of Secondary School grades.
      • Certificate or Declaration of academic, artistic or vocational merit.
    2. Outstanding sportsmen and –women:
      • Notarized photocopy of the Official Transcript of Secondary School grades.
      • Certificate of Sports Accreditation at the Federation level.
      • Personal interview (with the Dean of the Faculty).
  5. Internal transfers or parallel-degree students:
    • Copy of the Statement of Withdrawal from the original degree course, in the case of an internal transfer.
    • Copy of the Statement of Admission to the new degree course.
    • University Entrance Examination results (for the year of admission to the original degree course).

Those students opting for a change of degree course during their first year of study who had gained admission through the Regular Admissions channel must supply proof that their PSU (Prueba de Selección Universitaria or University Entrance Examination) score is sufficient to gain admission into the new degree course.

Records associated with studies carried out abroad must be formally legalized via diplomatic or consular channels.

Internal transfer students may only apply for one alternative degree course offered by the university.

Requirements

  • Secondary School or higher education Transcript of grades
  • Score achieved in the Special Examination or personal interview
  • Score assigned to other records

Information

For more information on the degree course of your choice contact us at the following address:

Universidad Diego Portales
Av. Manuel Rodríguez Sur 361
Santiago, Chile.

Telephone: 800 221 221 / (56-2) 6762821 / 6762841 / 6762860 / 676 2006 / 6762839
Fax: (56-2) 676 2842

Underground metro station: Toesca, Line 2