Correspondence should be assessed taking into account years of academic education up to 12 years of schooling.

For more information, please contact the Directorate-General for Education. In higher education, requests for equivalence/recognition are analysed on a case-by-case basis, and the higher education institution is responsible for granting or denying equivalence: there is no automatic equivalence.

For more detailed information regarding higher education, contact the National Academic Recognition Information Centre (NARIC) at the (DGES).