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General Information

INFORMATION ABOUT THE SELECTION PROCESS

 Admission to the Program may be biannually or annually, depending on the availability of vacancies. It occurs through a selection process elaborated by the Program Coordinating Committee (CCP) and published in the form of a public notice in the Official Gazette of the State of São Paulo and on the Program’s website.

The public notices of the selection process each year will specify the number of vacancies, the list of documents required for registration in the selection process, its phases, its schedule of exams and disclosure, as well as the evaluation criteria.

According to the Program’s Affirmative Action Policy, 25% of the total vacancies (4 vacancies) will be reserved for the affirmative action modality, for the following groups of people:

  1. black, African-American, and brown individuals, through self-declaration;
  2. indigenous people, through self-declaration;

iii. people with disabilities according to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Decree No. 6949 of August 25, 2009), through self-declaration;

  1. quilombolas, through self-declaration;
  2. migrants for humanitarian reasons, stateless persons, asylum seekers and refugees, through self-declaration and presentation of legal documentation in the country;
  3. transgender individuals (transvestites, transsexuals, and transgender people), through self-declaration;

vii. elderly people, in accordance with the Elderly Statute (Law No. 10.741 of October 1, 2003).

Candidates whose documentation requested in the corresponding year’s public notice, including proof of proficiency in English or French, is approved will be eligible to take the exams. For information on the Proficiency Exams – CLICK HERE.

The selection of candidates will be carried out by a Selection Committee appointed by the Program Coordination Committee and will consist of two phases:

First phase (eliminatory): Written examination on specific themes of the Program’s area, based on the bibliography published in the public notice of the year in question.

In this phase, the candidate will be evaluated on their capacity for interpretation, argumentation, synthesis, and written expression, and will receive a score from 0 to 10. The minimum score to proceed to the second phase is 7.0. Candidates who opted for affirmative action will receive an additional 2 (two) points in the final score of the first phase. After the evaluation, the Selection Committee will publish the names of the approved candidates.

Second phase (qualifying), consisting of 3 (three) stages:

  1. Analysis of the documented Curriculum Vitae, considering academic and complementary training (5.0) and professional trajectory, production (bibliographic, technical) and others (5.0). A score from 0 to 10 will be awarded for the evaluation of the Curriculum Vitae. Qualifying criterion.
  2. Analysis of the research pre-project presented by the candidate, taking into account the following aspects and their respective points:
  3. a) relevance of the theme in relation to the context of occupational therapy practices, the area of concentration, and the chosen research line (2.0);
  4. b) literature review (1.0);
  5. c) coherence between justification (1.0), objective(s) (2.0) and method (2.0);
  6. d) quality of presentation and written expression (1.0);
  7. e) suitability for the master’s level (1.0).

A score from 0 to 10 will be awarded for the evaluation of the pre-project. Qualifying criterion.

  1. Oral argumentation, individual, on the research pre-project, in which the following will be considered: verbal expression capacity, consistency of argumentation, coherence of ideas, and defense of the study proposal. A score from 0 to 10 will be awarded for the evaluation of the oral argumentation. Qualifying criterion.

The final score of the Selection Process will be obtained by the arithmetic mean of the 4 (four) scores related to the written examination, conducted in the first phase, and the analyses of the Curriculum Vitae, the research pre-project, and the oral argumentation, conducted in the second phase. Candidates with a final minimum score of 7.0 (seven) will be considered approved. Candidates who opted for affirmative action will receive an additional 2 (two) points in the final score.

Candidates approved with the best ranking will be accepted into the Program, considering the limit of available vacancies. The list of approved candidates will be published on the website.

Foreign candidates living abroad may register and submit the documents indicated in the Program’s call for applications electronically. The written examination may also be conducted electronically in Portuguese, English, French, or Spanish, as well as the oral argumentation. The required proficiency in Portuguese must be proven within 12 (twelve) months from the student’s enrollment in the course.

UPDATE: MARCH, 15TH 2025