Overview

About Basic Education at University of Minho

We train students by providing the adequate knowledge and skills that would enable them to: observe and evaluate different educational contexts within the area of early childhood and elementary education where they might develop their professional activity; build a global view on children and their life and learning contexts, developing skills for action in fields related to early childhood and elementary education; develop learning skills, critical and inventive thinking, intellectual curiosity and openness to diversity, in a perspective of lifelong training; access master's degrees in teaching pre-school and elementary and middle (5th-6th years) schools. This cycle of studies confers on graduates in Elementary Education knowledge and skills that enable them to exercise various professional functions, particularly those that focus on the child and on the network services that assist the child. These may be associated to syllabus enrichment programmes, extracurricular activities and activities to support the integration of children in schools.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Natural Sciences

Arts and Visual Education

Elements of Mathematics

Language, Literary Textuality and Interpretative Strategies

Physical Education

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-11 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-04-20 00:00:00 , International

Language

Partially taught in English, Partially taught in Portuguese

Credits

180 ECTS

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Braga, Portugal

Disciplines

Education Educational Research

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

Pre-Registration procedure
Fill in the application form
Learning Agreement for Studies, which needs to be signed and dated by the student and home institution [preferably, the template to be uploaded should be of the Online Learning Agreement (OLA), in case it is not possible to use this template, alternatively, the use of the template made available by UMinho or Home Institution is accepted] (pdf format)
Copy of ID card/Passport (pdf format)
Home Transcript of Records (pdf format)
Photo (jpeg format; max. 45kb)

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Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

International Applies to you

Applies to you

Non-residents

6500 EUR / year

≈ 6500 EUR / year
EU/EEA Applies to you

Applies to you

EU/EEA Nationals

697 EUR / year

≈ 697 EUR / year

Living costs

Braga

Portugal

454 - 697 EUR / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

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Scholarships Information

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