How to Join
The selection of candidates for the Master and Doctorate Courses will occur in three stages.
First stage:
Candidates will be evaluated independently by the 3 members of the Selection Committee, based on the quality of the documentation submitted
with the application. Each member will assign “Accepted” or “Not Accepted” for each candidate.
After the independent analysis of all the candidates' documentation by each of the 3 members, the Selection Committee will meet to make a final
decision. Candidates who have been approved unanimously (3 members of the Committee) or by a majority (2 members of the Committee) will
proceed to the second stage.
Candidate Evaluation Form will consider the following topics:
Graduation:
- University where the graduation was done
- Duration of the undergraduate course
- Average overall score
- Grade´s regularity
- Annual performance trend
Productivity:
- Scientific initiation scholarship
- Number of papers published
- Publications in journals
- Publicatons in conferences
Three (03) Letters of Recommendation:
- Evaluater experience
- how long has the evaluater known the candidat
- Degree of convergence among evaluators
- Motivation for advanced studies
- Fundamental knowledge
- Maturity and emotional stability
- Independence
- Writing skills
- Ability to work in team
- Languages skills
- Computer skills
- Other academic activities
- Teaching
- Academic internship
- Extracurricular courses
- Specialization courses
After independent analysis of the documentation of all candidates, the Selection Committee will gather to make a final decision. It will pass to the second stage candidates who have been approved unanimously (by the three Committee members) or by majority (by two Committee members).
Second stage:
In the second stage of selection, documentation of candidates approved in the first stage will be available to the Faculty of PGSER for analysis. At this stage, the teachers will identify candidates who have training / profile / interest / experience they think is best suited for the projects and lines of research in which teachers operate. Each teacher may appoint up to six candidates, who will move to the third stage of the selection process.
Third stage:
In the third stage candidates must be approved in the interview and in the English test (score > 7,0). Alternatively to the English test, the
candidates with TOEFL, IELTS, Cambridge or DET recent results may be released from the English test (after
evaluation by the Selection Committee).
INTERVIEW
Applicants will be interviewed by the teachers that selected them. During this interview the candidate will be evaluated on the following aspects:
- Capacity to express an idea or a thought;
- Basic knowledge in their area of training, use of language, oral exposition of his/her ideas;
- Adherence of the theme proposed by the candidate to the teacher´s line of research;
- General considerations of the teacher about the candidate:
- researcher profile,
- possible contributions to science;
- postgraduate course as a personal desire or subterfuge etc.
The interviews will be conducted by videoconference (the student must contact the teacher to schedule a date).
Each teacher will evaluate (approve or disapprove) the candidates he/she interviewed, and among those who were approved, the teacher will select a candidate to be his/her student. Candidates approved in the interview, but who were not the first choice of any teacher, will be placed on a waiting list, and in case of withdrawal, they may be called.