The degree in Medicine (Clinical Campus) taught at the UB has the highest cut-off mark – among the studies that offer more than 40 places – for university entrance in Catalonia, with a 13.040 (13.240 in 2022) . With regard to degrees with an offer of less than 40 places, the most requested study, and for the 12th consecutive year, is the double degree in Physics and Mathematics taught at the UAB, with a required qualification of 13,436 (13,536 in 2022).
Once again, and as in previous years, the most requested study centers are once again those that offer degrees in the field of health sciences (Medicine, Psychology, Nursing and Dentistry) and in areas such as ‘Business Administration and Management, Law and Architecture.
The most demanded degree has been the one in Medicine (Clinical Campus) which is taught at the UB and which has the highest cut-off mark. It offers 200 places and has had 1,668 applications. Then comes Psychology, also offered at the UB (1,167 applications for 432 places) and Business Administration and Management (also taught at the UB), with 780 places and 1,013 applications.
Laura Román Martín, general secretary of the Interuniversity Council of Catalonia, highlighted, at the presentation of the results in a press conference, that this year “all the centers corresponding to Medicine are increasing their offer of places. Beyond the three that appear among the ten most requested centers in first preference, in the Catalan university system as a whole, 146 more places are offered in Medicine this coming year, which represents an increase of 12%”.
82.95% (47,501 students) of students pre-registered to access degree studies at one of the seven public Catalan universities (UB, UAB, UPC, UPF, UdL, URV and UdG) and at the Universitat de Vic-Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC) already have a place allocated (80.87% in 2022). Of these, 62.80% (29,830) were able to access the qualification they requested as their first preference (60.23% last year). In this year’s process, a total of 57,263 students have pre-registered (57,413 in 2022).
The students assigned to the different universities are: 11,998 at the UB, 9,716 at the UAB, 6,763 at the UPC, 4,167 at the UPF, 3,146 at the UdL, 4,334 at the UdG, 3,867 at the URV, 3,065 at the UVic-UCC and 445 in mixed centers.
“We are delighted because the percentage of students who have obtained a place in this first allocation is rising again. An increase of two points, a significant figure”, pointed out Román Martín. “The percentage of those who obtained first preference allocation has also increased by two points. All this means that we have been able to give a more satisfactory response to the demands of all the students who have pre-registered this year in the Catalan university system”, he added.
After the degree in Medicine (Clinical Campus) given at the UB, the degrees – with more than 40 places offered – with the most demanding cut-off marks are Medicine at the UPF (12.980), Mathematics at the UPC (12.925), Medicine ( Bellvitge Campus) that the UB does (12,893), Medicine at the URV (12,768) and Medicine at the UAB (12,713).
There are as many as four double degrees in the top 10 highest cut scores. The already mentioned Physics and Mathematics at the UAB (13,436), the same qualification taught at the UB (13,318), Law and International Relations offered at the UAB (13,084) and Computer Engineering and Mathematics taught at the UB (12,920).
The cut-off grade depends directly on the relationship between the number of places offered by a degree and the demand by students. In the studies with an entrance grade of 5, what happens is that, in these degrees, not all the places offered in the first allocation have been filled.
