The Aerospace Engineering courses at the Universities of Porto and Minho, respectively, have the highest entry averages in the National Competition for Access to Higher Education in 2024/2025. The results were released this Sunday, August 25, by the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation and you can consult them on JE. Aerospace Engineering is the course with the highest score in the first phase of the 2024 National Access Competition, the results of which were released at the first minute of this Sunday, August 25, by the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation. You can consult the list of places, grades and unfilled vacancies course by course and institution by institution here: cna2024_1f_resultados The Aerospace Engineering degree, created this year at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, has filled all 30 places, with the last student entering with a miraculous 19.45 marks. The new degree is financed by funds from the Next Generation EU program of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), through the U.Porto Multidisciplinary Training Program - Impulso Jovens STEAM & Impulso Adultos. The same Aerospace Engineering, but this time taught at the University of Minho, which topped the podium last year, comes second in the table, with 19.14 points. Mathematics Applied to Economics and Management catapults the centenary ISEG into third place with 18.90 points, in what is probably the most surprising rise in the podium. This year's competition also has a new "tenant" in fourth place compared to last year: Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. The course at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto filled all 60 places, with the last entrant scoring 18.75 marks. In fifth place is Aerospace Engineering, from the Instituto Superior Técnico, a pioneering course and for many years the only course in Portugal in this area of knowledge. The last entry grade was 18.73. The remaining five places in the top 10 are more diverse. In sixth place we find Industrial Engineering and Management, also taught at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, with the last student placed with an average of 18.63. This is followed by another course at the University of Porto: Architecture, with an average of 18.60. In eighth place comes the first course in Medicine, best by two - both at the University of Porto. In the course at the Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences, the last-placed student scored 18.55, and in the Faculty of Medicine, the score was 18.48. The tenth highest mark belongs to a student on another Aerospace Engineering course, this time at the University of Aveiro: 18.38. The first Arts course with the highest average is Languages and International Relations, with 18.18. In the 1st phase of the National Access Competition for the 2024-2025 academic year in public higher education, 49,963 new students were placed. According to the data released by the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation, 56.1% of the students were placed in their first choice of application and 87.8% in one of their first three choices. Almerinda Romeira