To apply for regular admission to any of the undergraduate programs, the following is required:

1. Completion of an Application Form, selecting the program chosen and an alternative program.
2. Deposit of a non-refundable application fee in a bank account (details included in the Forms).
3. Provision of the following documents:
   • Receipt of application fee deposited in a bank account
     
   • Original form with the results of the State Testing Service (ICFES)
     
   • Certificate of proficiency in English (applicants to the International Business Program)
     
   • Proof of affiliation to an insurance company and a certificate of blood type (RH)
     
   • Additional knowledge form, for Music applicants. Please refer to the program information.

Once the documents are satisfactorily received, the applicant will be given an identification card for use during the selection process. In certain cases, an additional interview will be required. Results are displayed in the university within two weeks of the applications being received, and can also been seen on the website

Entry Requirements
To become a regular student at EAFIT, High School graduates must submit the results of the State Test (ICFES). Entry will depend heavily on the scores corresponding to Mathematics and Language Skills.

Students coming from other universities must submit their academic transcript and in most cases will go through a personal interview. Exchange students are not subjected to this rule.

Grade Structure:
The grading system in Eafit is from 0 to 5. 5 being the highest score, and 1 a definite fail. Anything lower than 3 is not enough to pass.

Course Structure:
Except for a few fields like Education and Performing Arts, all undergraduate programs in Colombia take five year regular workload, as a minimum, to complete. Some universities include one or two semesters of training in a company, so that a student will usually take eleven semesters to graduate. At EAFIT, students are required to choose a Major among several areas of concentration, and are also required to take a Minor in the area of Humanities, which offers choices in Political or Cultural Studies, Logic and Philosophy, Literature, Communications, Values and Culture, or Music.

Graduate Programs start at the level of a one-year program called Specialization (Especialización), equivalent to a Graduate Certificate. A Master’s Degree requires two years for completion and a dissertation. Finally, The Ph.D. degree can be attained after three more years of academic study and a Research project that becomes the Doctoral Thesis.

Semester = 16 weeks
Regular workload: 18 Credits
6 Courses of 3 Credits: 864 hours
216 hours of class
16 hours per subject

Examinations:
Most courses have several exams during the semester, especially the regular courses. In general, the final grade is composed of: 70% for work undertaken during the semester, and 30% for the final Exam. The final exams are programmed to take place during the last two weeks of the semester and they are administered by the academic departments, while the work during the semester is left to the teacher’s judgement. You will normally get a guideline for each of your subjects during the first week of class.

Fees:

The cost of each program is calculated by the total amount of UMEs and multiplying them by the product value of the UME.

UMES:
Each course has a corresponding number of UMEs. These depend on the amount of teaching hours and resources they consume. For 2006 the cost of each UME is $155.522 pesos.

For more information on fees contact the International Relations office.