International Exchange Students

Exchange Information

Student Nomination and Application

Academic Information

Coordinator for International Cooperation	Angélica Cristina Torresin torresin@unicamp.br
Mobility Coordinator	Ana Paula Fontana anapfont@unicamp.br
North America, United Kingdom and Oceania	Angélica Cristina Torresin torresin@unicamp.br
Central Europe, Scandinavia, Iberia	Daniel Cantinelli Sevillano dcsevi@unicamp.br
Latin America and the Caribbean	Mariana Pereira maricori@unicamp.br
Asia	Mayara Ferreira Morais mayarafm@unicamp.br
Western Europe And Balkans	Ludmila Pioli lpioli@unicamp.br
Other countries	deri@unicamp.br

Appointment period	April 1nd to May 20th
Application period	April 15nd to May 27th
Registration Confirmation¹ (Issuance of Letter of Acceptance)	June 14th (to be confirmed)
Arrival date (suggested)	Between the 19rd and 29th of July (from the 22nd to the 29th of July, Reception Week organized by DERI)
Portuguese Interview	(to confirm)
Beginning of Classes	1 August
Registration in Classes	13st and 14nd of August
End of Classes	December 7th
Final exams	December 9th to 14th

Appointment – procedures	Students must be nominated by their home institution in our nomination forms.
Registration – procedures	Students must also register online on the DAC (Academic Board) website, in the system SIGA.
Language Requirements	Unicamp does not have knowledge requirements in Portuguese. All Undergraduate level classes and most Postgraduate classes are offered in Portuguese. Exchange students are offered Portuguese classes in English and Spanish.
Subjects offered in English (classes offered in english)	Coming soon.
Restricted areas	– Medicine: Only observational internships are allowed for a maximum period of 90 days. Theoretical or practical subjects do not accept enrollment from foreign students. For more information, go to: https://www.fcm.unicamp.br/fcm/international-office - Speech: For the practical subjects of the 3rd. and 4th. years of Speech Therapy, the activities of the 1st academic semester of the year (March – July) begin before the official start of the semester. Students in this area should contact DERI and/or the Speech Therapy Undergraduate Office to find out about the start of activities. - Music: Only for students taking music courses, especially instrument classes. - Arts Courses: Only for art students. - Sports Courses: Only for students on sports courses. - Thesis and final projects: most teaching units do not accept students for theses and final projects, even if no exam is required. - Language courses: Only Portuguese for Foreigners or Portuguese for Spanish speakers, and ONLY if the student takes the placement test before classes start.
Number of students (spaces)	For information on how many students can be nominated per year, consult the Cooperation Agreement signed between UNICAMP and your institution or contact the responsible for the agreement at UNICAMP.
Course offerings	Exchange students can request classes at all faculties and institutes, respecting the restrictions described above. Class schedules (undergraduate and postgraduate) are available here. If the appropriate semester schedule is not yet available, students should choose their classes based on the same semester from the previous year. Classes are offered on four different campuses in three different cities. We strongly recommend that students take classes in just one city. The main campus is located in Campinas. The Faculty of Applied Sciences (FCA) and the Faculty of Technology (FT) are located in the city of Limeira and the Faculty of Dentistry of Piracicaba (FOP) is in the city of Piracicaba.
Credits / Hours	Undergraduate and Postgraduate students from Partner Universities can enroll in up to 32 credits per semester. At UNICAMP, each credit corresponds to 15 class hours, lasting 15 (fifteen) weeks of class activities (readings, laboratory, etc.). Like this: – 1 credit = 15 hours – One course of 4 credits = 60 hours of academic activities per semester. – A student enrolled in 24 credits will have a total of 360 hours of academic activities in the semester. – There is no official equivalence between UNICAMP Credits and ECTS. - ALL Exchange students must have at least 15 hours of classes per week (15 credits) due to federal police requirements for visa regularization.
Visa	To enroll at UNICAMP you need a Student or Mercosul Visa, which can be obtained at the consular office of the Brazilian Embassy or Consulate in the student's country of origin. The visa must be requested early enough so that all bureaucratic procedures can be completed, which can be quite time-consuming. Although it is possible for students from some countries to enter Brazil as tourists and change their visa status while in the country, this is not recommended as this procedure requires a series of legalized and translated documents. Therefore, We strongly advise entering Brazil with a Student or Mercosur Visa. We strongly recommend that when applying for a visa at the Brazilian Embassy or Consulate in their country of origin, the student also requests the issuance of a document called CPF. This is an individual document necessary for operations such as opening bank accounts and registering for some public and private services, and will certainly be requested at some point during your stay in Brazil.
Health insurance	Health insurance is mandatory for all foreign students and a copy of this document must be delivered to DAC via the system. The insurance must cover medical and repatriation expenses from the day the student leaves their country of origin. Choosing specific travel insurance is the student’s responsibility. If the foreign student arrives in Brazil without previously contracted health insurance, he or she will have to purchase insurance with a local agency. UNICAMP has a community health care center called Cecom, which offers medical and dental consultations, in addition to emergency care. It also has two hospitals on the Campinas campus that can be used in urgent and emergency situations, especially on weekends, when Cecom is closed. Both services can only be used after registration has been completed (after the first two weeks after the start of classes).
Other information:	They can be consulted in the Foreign Student Guide, available at the link Pre Arrival Information.

Academic year

The UNICAMP academic year is divided into two semesters:

1st academic semester – from March to July
2st academic semester – from August to December
Summer Vacation - January and February
At the Postgraduate level, summer and winter classes can be offered, which take place in the months of January and February (Summer Holidays) and July (Winter Holidays). At the Undergraduate level there are no classes during the winter holidays, but there may be classes during the summer holidays (January and February).

Attention: Each Faculty or Institute has the autonomy to define whether or not it offers Summer Vacation and/or Winter Vacation classes. Therefore, the student must always check the DAC website and the course secretariat offering such periods.

Academic Calendar

All information about the academic period, enrollment, study week, exam period, vacations, national and municipal holidays are available on the website. Academic Calendar official website available on the Academic Board – DAC website.

Credit System	At Unicamp, each credit is equivalent to 15 semester hours of academic activity (lectures, laboratories, tutorials, etc.). Then: One 4-credit course = 60 hours of academic activity per semester A student with 24 credits will have a total of 360 hours of academic activities that semester.
Classification system	The assessment of academic performance is generally expressed by grades from zero (0) to ten (10). To pass a subject, the student must obtain a grade equal to or greater than five (5) and attend 75% of the classes. There are also some subjects with a pass/fail concept. If the student successfully completes the course, he or she will receive credits, but not a specific grade. The ways of verifying the student's learning process (test, exercises, reports, projects, course attendance, etc.) are established by the professor responsible for the course, with the approval of the academic program coordinator. The student's regular performance throughout the program is measured by the Cumulative Grade Average (CR).
Yield Coefficient (CR)	The student's performance throughout the program is measured by the Performance Coefficient (CR), which varies from zero (0) to one (1), and is calculated by the formula: Ni = grade relative to the ith subject among the n subjects taken at this University. Ci = number of credits corresponding to the ith subject. Note (1): Regular and exchange students at UNICAMP are evaluated equally. However, exchange students may have a limited number of credit hours they can take per semester. Note (2): All information presented here was adapted from the DAC General Graduation Regulations. Note (3): Unicamp is not responsible for recognizing credits in foreign institutions.
ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) equivalence	There is no official equivalence between UNICAMP Credits and ECTS. One suggestion is that the student finds out the official workload for each ECTS credit at the University abroad and then compares it with the workload for each credit at UNICAMP. As mentioned above, at UNICAMP, each credit is equivalent to 15 semester hours of academic activity (lectures, laboratories, tutorials, etc.).

Credit System	At Unicamp, each credit is equivalent to 15 semester hours of academic activity (lectures, laboratories, tutorials, etc.). Then: One 4-credit course = 60 hours of academic activity per semester A student with 24 credits will have a total of 360 hours of academic activities that semester.
Classification system	The academic performance of UNICAMP postgraduate students is expressed by a letter, which has a corresponding value on a scale of 0 to 4. To pass a subject, the student must obtain a grade greater than or equal to C and attend a more than 75% of classes. The equivalence between the letter grade and the 0-4 scale is as follows: I – A – Excellent (value 4) / Approved; II – B – Good (value 3) / Approved; III – C – Regular (value 2) / Approved; IV – D – Insufficient (value 1) / Failed; V – E – Abandonment (value 0) / Failed by Frequency; VI – S – Sufficient / Approved. *There are no grades assigned to certain courses. Successful students receive an “S” and have all credits counted toward completion of the course. The ways of verifying the student's learning process (test, exercises, reports, projects, course attendance, etc.) are established by the professor responsible for the course, with the approval of the academic program coordinator.
Yield Coefficient (CR)	Student performance throughout the program is measured by the Performance Coefficient (CR), which varies from zero (0,0) to four (4,0), and is calculated using the formula below, rounded to one decimal place: C = credit v = concept value Subjects with an S – Sufficient grade do not count towards the CR. All information presented here was adapted from DAC Postgraduate General Regulations.