Overview
- This week’s reporting of 2025 and 2025–26 data shows the highest admission thresholds sit in double degrees, engineering, mathematics and medicine, with the top Catalan mark 13.370 for UAB’s Physics and Mathematics program.
- Regional gaps are large: University of Vigo data show 23 of 42 undergraduate degrees have cutoffs above the national average, with local examples such as ADE in Vigo at 8.084 versus a national 6.45.
- Cutoffs are outcomes rather than fixed quality signals because the nota de corte equals the lowest score admitted in a given year and moves with applicant demand and available places.
- Employment data from Fundación CYD complicate simple assumptions about quality since some low-cutoff engineering programs, for example at Huelva and Oviedo, report strong graduate employment and wage figures.
- Students are sitting PAU exams now and must await the official 2026 cutoffs, so advisors urge applicants to combine past cutoff patterns with program content, internships and labor-market indicators when choosing courses.