If you want to study in Spain, you have to go through an admission process and then an enrollment process.
These procedures require the mandatory mastery of administrative and academic vocabulary so that you can complete your files and understand what is required of you throughout the implementation of your procedures.
To help you with your studies in Spain, FEEDUC has created a glossary of terms for you (future students in Spain or parents of future students in Spain).
This is listed in alphabetical order of the word in Spanish. We have taken care to add a column with the word in English because some universities sometimes send documents in English to fill out to all their students who are not Spanish.
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Spanish
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French | English |
| Admisión | Admission (before enrolling you must apply and be admitted) | Admission |
| Apellido / Segundo apellido | Surname / Second Surname (does not apply to French nationals unless otherwise stated) | Last name/Second last name |
| Asignaturas | Materials | Race |
| Bachillerato Internacional o Europeo o de sistema educativo de la Unión Europea o de un País con acuerdo de reciprocidad.
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Baccalaureate (nothing more J) | A-Levels |
| Cargo | Employment | Position |
| Postal Code | Postal code | Zip Code |
| Convalidaciones | Equivalences (ECTS) | Recognition study |
| Credencial | Document attesting to the validity of the baccalaureate diploma (mandatory to enter the Spanish university system with a diploma obtained in the French education system). | Credencial |
| Academic course | School year | Academic year |
| D/Dña | Mr/Mrs | Sir/Madam |
| Academic data | School information | |
| Personal data | Personal information | Personal details |
| Datos familiares | Family information | Family details |
| Direccion | Address | address |
| DNI Documento Nacional de Identidad | National Identity CardI | Passport |
| Docente (centro docente) | Teacher (school) | School |
| Domicilio | Address | Address |
| In XXX, a......de.....de...... | At (place), on (day of (month) of (year) | (City), (day) of (month) of (year) |
| Expediente | File | File |
| Firma | Signature | signature |
| Idiomas extranjeros | Foreign languages | Foreign languages |
| Imprescindible | Required (such as your Skype ID on the UFV application for example). | Mandatory |
| Localidad | city | City |
| Matrìcula | Enrolment | Registration |
| NIE Numero de Identificacion de Extranjeros | Identification number for foreigners: obligatory to reside more than 3 months in Spain and also for many administrative procedures. | NIE |
| NIF Numero de Identidad Fiscal | Fiscal identity number but for the French you indicate the number of your identity card or your passport | Passport number |
| Number | First name | First name |
| No. of Expediente | Student number (sometimes, like at EMU, you are asked for it when you don't have it yet and you must leave it blank) | File number |
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NP: Pre-registration number |
Pre-registration number (this is the number assigned to you, for example by the UAX, during your admission process) | |
| N° Orientacion | Orientation number. Most of the time you don't know it (as for the UEC, UEM and UEV application file) it will be given to you by the university if you did not follow a "classic" admission path. | Guidance No. |
| N° Solicitud | Application number. Most of the time you don't know it (as for the application file of the UEC, UEM and UEV) it will be given to you later by the university. | Application No. |
| Optativas (asignaturas) | Optional (subjects) | Electives (races) |
| PAU (prueba de acceso a la Universidad) / EVAU | Spanish Baccalaureate | A-Levels |
| PCE (Pruebas de competencias Específicas) | Additional tests for the Spanish Baccalaureate to increase your Credencial score | Specific exams to improve the Credencial grade |
| Poblacion | City | City |
| Provincia | Region | County |
| Reconocimiento de asignaturas | Recognition of high school subjects to increase your Credencial score | |
| Soliciting | Applicant (student) | Applicant |
| Solicitud | Application for admission | Application |
| Titulación | Cursus | Degree |
We hope that this document is and will be useful to you throughout the process of getting into a university in Spain.
If you're missing any words, don't hesitate to let us know by e-mail at: info@feeduc.eu
We will give you the information and can complete this lexicon so that your request can be useful to other future French students in Spain.
And don't forget, parents and students, this help is a beginning, on a very specific vocabulary in the context of steps to study in Spain but to study in Spain you must speak Spanish.
Find all the information, contacts and tips for learning and progressing in Spanish on the page dedicated to language upgrading.
