Graduate Studies

The student's initial enrollment in the course must be completed at the Postgraduate Studies Office. In subsequent academic periods, enrollment will be automatically renewed by the Academic Affairs Office (DAC), according to the deadlines defined in the academic calendar.

Registration must be done online every semester on the DAC website. It is the student's sole responsibility to register for courses within the deadlines established by the academic calendar; no subsequent requests will be accepted if registration is not completed.

This is the procedure that allows students to add and/or drop subjects without these changes appearing on their academic transcript.
Enrollment changes must be made online, on the DAC website, within the deadlines established by the school calendar.

This is the procedure used to cancel courses after the registration change deadline. This cancellation will appear on the student's academic transcript, but will not affect the calculation of their GPA (Grade Point Average).
Withdrawal from enrollment must be done online, on the DAC website, within the deadlines defined by the school calendar.

According to the regulations, students may, for exceptional reasons and with the agreement of their advisor and approval from the Coordination, request up to two enrollment suspensions, consecutive or not. At the time of each suspension request, the remaining time to complete the course must be equal to or greater than the duration of the requested period.
The course withdrawal must be requested by the student directly through Siga, and is subject to approval by the advisor and the Coordination.

Postgraduate courses taken before enrolling in the program may be validated.
The rules for credit transfer are established in the General Regulations for Postgraduate Courses, Chapter VII, "Recognition of Prior Learning".

In terms of training activities, each area of ​​concentration offers:

• a set of disciplines related to your area of ​​knowledge;

• a series of seminars focused on discussing emerging research topics;

• Scheduled Research Activities, developed collectively within the research groups.

For students entering master's or doctoral programs up to 2017, it is necessary to complete 12 credits in Courses and/or Seminars, in addition to 6 credits in Programmed Research Activities.

For students entering the master's or doctoral program from 2018 onwards, it is necessary to complete 16 credits in Courses and/or Seminars, in addition to 8 credits in Programmed Research Activities.

The Program does not adopt a category of mandatory courses. Within the set of Courses and Seminars offered by the areas of concentration, the graduate student, together with their advisor, chooses those considered most relevant to their training and to the development of the research project. Students are encouraged not to restrict themselves to the Courses and Seminars of their own area of ​​concentration, and may take activities from other areas. The only exception refers to the Scheduled Research Activities, which must be carried out within the research group to which the project is linked.

For students entering the program up to 2017, the program establishes maximum completion times of 36 months for a master's degree and 60 months for a doctorate. It should be noted that, according to the General Regulations for Postgraduate Courses... Stricto Sensu At Unicamp, extensions to these deadlines are not permitted.

Currently, the master's degree has a minimum duration of 12 (twelve) months and a maximum of 30 (thirty) months, while the doctorate has a minimum duration of 24 (twenty-four) months and a maximum of 52 (fifty-two) months.

The disciplines, seminars and scheduled research activities are semesterly.

Each credit unit is equivalent to 1 hour of theoretical and practical activities, developed over 15 weeks.

There are no mandatory subjects, and it is up to the student, with the supervision and agreement of his/her advisor, to choose from among the subjects offered those that are of interest to him/her based on the research work.

The foreign language proficiency exam will consist of one language for the Master's degree and two for the Doctorate degree, and must be taken on a date stipulated by the CPG, in the semester in which the student enters the program. In case of failure, the candidate will have a second opportunity to take the exam in the year following his/her entry into the program.