The University of Coimbra attaches to 3% of the best students enrolled in each course first cycle, integrated masters and masters of continuity equal to the difference between the maximum and the minimum annual tuition award.
Students from other years are ordered by the successive application of the following criteria: Better weighted average of the grades in courses related to the curriculum attended the previous school year, better weighted average of the grades obtained in all courses in previous academic years, highest Number of ECTS gained and age.