Students beginning studies will have to register for all the subjects/credits assigned to the first course of the selected study plan. An exception will be made only for students who have certain first course credits recognised, validated or transferred.
Students starting any degree course must enrol for the entire number of credits corresponding to the first year course load featuring in the syllabus of the chosen course, with the following exceptions:

- students enrolling in any undergraduate (first-cycle) degree course with its own criterion set out in its study plan.
- students enrolling for courses with a virtual or part-time programme where demand is lower than the availability of places, and those students with partially-validated or adapted first-year subjects.
- students enrolling in the first year of second-cycle-only degrees, or those entering the second cycle from a different first cycle are not affected by the previous rule.

When the syllabus does not specify the course load per year, complete year will be understood to mean the total number of subjects or core, compulsory and optional subjects assigned to the corresponding year. Course syllabuses following the ECTS programme have a set course load of 60 credits.
Students registering for the first time on a degree of which only the second cycle is offered and students accessing a second cycle from a different first cycle are not affected by this regulation.