Higher Technician degree, what is it equivalent to?

When choosing one path or the other in terms of education, it is recommended to consider previously aspects that will be key to your future. The Professional Training is positioned as one of the pathways are more direct access to the working world!

If you are exploring the option of getting your degree from a Higher Technical, in UNIVERSAE (you can enrol in one of our distance learning Certificates of Higher Education. Currently, we have a total of 13 professional areas. You'll be able to specialize in areas ranging from Administration and Management, through information and Communication technology to Image and Sound, for example. Then, we analyze in this entry the most relevant factors that insurance that shed light to make your decision. Congratulations, the first step you have already given!

·With your Upper Grade impulsarás your access to the labour

To obtain your degree of Technical Higher is required to complete a Higher Degree. Finishing this training you will be prepared to merge the world of work and, if you want, later you will be able to enter in any university.

At this level of studies put the focus on the development of technical professionals. In this way, you'll have a excellent training to take responsibilities in a very diverse professional sectors. You will gain in-depth knowledge of the labour system in the that you've joined and you'll have a vision, enterprise and innovation, up-to-date with the demands of the market. You will learn how to use the tools that thou shalt put them into practice in your day-to-day.

Before choosing your center of studies, it is essential that you consider the officers of the degrees by the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training. It is the case of UNIVERSAE in our Institute of Higher Education, you will finish your studies with the recognition of the ministry, that is in addition to the subsequent official status in Europe.

·Get your title of Higher Technician and you will be a qualified professional

The moment that you get a Top Grade, you get your diploma Superior. This will be a great step in your career! As a result, you will be a qualified professional and geared to the everyday reality of the companies. By using this specific formation, which includes practice in their curricular program, you'll expand the prospects of your career. You'll include in your CV the certification is that candidates will demonstrate the skills necessary to perform your role as a Technician.

As we said, to pass all the subjects of your Top Grade, you will get the official recognition of Superior Technician in the professional area which you have studied. You will receive the enabling full develop your talent!

The equivalence it is the recognition that a title has the same effects on academic and professional than the other. Remember that these studies are taken into account as an official in the civil service as in any private company.


Generally, to gain access to a Higher Grade is required to have passed previously a mid-Grade or high school. Therefore, in the present, the educational level of a title of senior Technical equivalent to a level somewhat higher than that of Baccalaureate. Thus, the Higher level is between the Average Degree and the university.

However, it is possible that you also know the names above the TVET. In particular, the TVETII it is the former term of Training cycles that correspond to the current Upper Grades. Decades ago, these training cycles, enabling the students to have a broader domain of a profession. Now correspond to the Higher Degree and, in consequence, with the achievement of the title of senior Technician.

The course load of a Higher Grade level is organized in various courses focused on the professional area. In this way, the ECTS credits are a system of assessment of the volume of work of the students; that is, the hours of dedication to the study. Thus, it measures the work that you have done to overcome their curriculum.

These credits correspond to the objectives set out in the implementation of the EESS, European Space for Higher Education, with the aim of promoting the compatibility between the different systems of Higher Education in Europe.

·You'll have to complete 120 ECTS credits!

The students of the titles of senior Technical have to comply with a course load of 120 ECTS credits. For you to establish a comparison, a college degree has usually with 240 ECTS credits. So, with half the number of credits possess an official title with which you can access the labour market.

In each Training Cycle Top, the contents are focused on the combination of knowledge theoretical-practical. In addition, it is worth mentioning that in the course Training in Work Centers, that consists of 22 ECTS credits, students live the experience of working in environments where they put into practice what you've learned. In UNIVERSAE (our students have access to thousands of collaboration agreements with companies that are leaders in each sector.

Now that you know a lot more about what that involves a degree of Technical Higher, do you dare to take the Higher level and as well be a profile defendant and updated to the requirements of the labor market? For access to a Higher Grade you'll need to meet, at least, with one of the following requirements:

• – Title of intermediate Vocational Training.
• – Title of a senior Technician, Technical Specialist or equivalent academic accreditation.
• – High school diploma, BUP, COU or an equivalent accreditation or higher.
• – University degree or equivalent.
• – Test access to the University for over 25 years.
• – Test access to Top Grade, being the minimum age of 19 years.