University of Antioquia - Undergraduate Education

Undergraduate Education

The undergraduate admission is done through a knowledge test, which is conducted twice a year. The entrance examination is an instrument that measured some basic skills and knowledge that have been obtained is in high school. It is a general aptitude test and as such does not evaluate the applicant regarding the career you want to enter.

The exam consists of two components, Reading Proficiency Test (Mother Tongue) and Logical Reasoning Test (Mathematical Logic) and is equal to the candidates of all programs except for the Faculty of Arts.

To be eligible you must pass a Minimum Cutoff Score and also be within the Number of Seats Available for each academic program. For all programs, the test is often extremely competitive, meaning that the selectivity in income is very high due to the high demand for programs, in some cases presenting the proportion of applicants admitted less than 10%.

For example, for the period 2012-1, the Cutoff Score for Medicine was 73.98 points, with a registered number of 9.038 and a total of 144 admitted.

Note: In the admissions process does not lend greater importance to the State Exam (test Saber 11 °) applied by the ICFES, and does not take into account the high school grades.

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