Architecture and Urbanism

Admission and Scholarships

Admission and Scholarships

Admission

Applications can be submitted online on the Mackenzie Webpage within the timeframe set out in  the Graduate Degree Program Selection Process Notices, published twice annually, for the first and second semesters.

To apply for a Mackenzie Graduate Degree Program, check the Selection Process openings and complete the Application Form.

The Selection Process requirements are as follows:

Master’s:

  • Specific knowledge test
  • Test of proficiency in one (01) foreign language (English, French, Spanish, Italian)
  • Statement of intended research
  • Interview

Doctorate:

  • Specific knowledge test
  • Test of proficiency in two (02) foreign languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian)
  • Draft research project
  • Interview

 

Note: failure to pass the test of proficiency is not a disqualifier for the selection process. Qualification of a dissertation or thesis can only occur if the test of proficiency has been passed, and the candidate must have taken and passed a new test by the date of submission of the Draft.

Additional documents: Defended Master’s Dissertation, Notarized Copy of the Master’s Diploma or Copy of the Minutes of the Defense, and Front and Back Copy of the Education Report. All to be sent to e-mail address pos.fau@mackenzie.br, or mailed (Sedex) to the address of the Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo Mackenzie, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo (PPGAU UPM), Rua da Consolação, 896 – Prédio 9 – São Paulo – SP – CEP: 01302-907 – Phone No.: 55 11 21149792

Scholarships

PPGAU UPM has scholarship grants available for Master’s and Doctorate candidates.

 

MASTER’S
CAPES-PROSUP grants are available pursuant to an internal selection process. Tuition exemption mode is also possible, by which candidates are exempt from payment of monthly fees. Under the Scholarship mode, candidates receive a financial aid in addition to exemption from tuition fees. Master’s candidates also have available the Merit Scholarship mode, granted by the Mackpesquisa Fund.

 

DOCTORATE
The Doctorate Program offers the tuition exemption contract option, pursuant to a choice made upon admission and requiring 20 weekly hours of effort dedicated to the Program for Graduate Program activities – lectures, research and readings in line with the thesis, attendance of research groups and projects, and assistance toward management activities. The duties of grant holders and those that elect the tuition-exempt mode also include submission of the thesis strictly within the regulatory deadline, as well as compliance with requirements concerning attendance of research groups and projects, passing all compulsory and elective subjects, attendance and events and publication in Annals and/or in CAPES-qualified journals. Quotas also exist for scholarships under the Overseas Sandwich Doctorate Scholarships Program (“Programa de Doutorado Sanduíche no Exterior” – PDSE)/CAPES, with two-yearly quotas.

All Master’s or Doctoral candidates may receive a Mackpesquisa Fund grant in the form of a discount to tuition fees as researchers under research projects funded and approved as per Public Notice. The Mackpesquisa Fund also provides funding as a subsidy for  Paper Publication and  Translation, pursuant to approval by the Program’s Coordination and General Graduate Programs Coordination Groups.