University admission cut-off scores in Seville have fallen for a second consecutive year: after the first admissions round, only eight degree programmes stood above 13 points. The latest cycle is below the 2024 total of 17 programmes and the 2025 total of nine. These figures reflect the scores of applicants admitted at that stage, not fixed grades assigned independently by universities. Cut-offs can shift as places become available and applicants accept or decline offers.
The double degree in Física + Matemáticas at the Universidad de Sevilla (US) remains the most selective, with a cut-off of 13.594, down 0.156 points from 13.750 in 2025. It is followed by Ingeniería Informática. Tecnología Informática + Matemáticas, at 13.374. Biomedicina Básica y Experimental ranks third at 13.345, while Ingeniería Aeroespacial follows at 13.340. Both recorded slight increases from the previous cycle.
Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) is represented in fifth place by the double degree in Relaciones Internacionales (RRII) + Derecho, with a cut-off of 13.336, compared with 13.396 in 2025. It is UPO’s only programme above 13 points in the reported figures. The Universidad de Sevilla occupies the first four positions in the ranking and also offers Fisioterapia + Ciencias de la Salud y del Deporte, which remains above the threshold.
The other programmes above 13 are Medicina, at 13.320; Fisioterapia + Ciencias de la Salud y del Deporte, at 13.275, down from 13.368; and Odontología, at 13.167. Matemáticas + Estadística, previously above 13, now stands at 12.976. Taken together, the figures show a narrower group of programmes crossing the threshold than in either of the previous two years.
The change comes amid the transition to Spain’s current university-access examination structure, generally known as the PAU, which has replaced the former Selectividad terminology. A cut-off reflects the score of the last applicant admitted to a particular programme in a particular round. It can so move as applicant preferences and examination-score distributions change, or when the number of places or competition for a course shifts. A lower figure, by itself, does not demonstrate a decline in academic standards or programme quality.
Admissions to the public universities of Andalusia are coordinated through the Distrito Único Andaluz, where applicants rank their course preferences and places are allocated information from admission scores and demand. Because the process proceeds through successive rounds, first-round figures are not necessarily final cut-offs. Year-to-year comparisons are most meaningful when they use the same admissions stage and compare the same programme and access route on the same campus.
The programmes above 13 are concentrated in STEM and health, alongside the UPO double degree in international relations and law. Seville’s public-university cut-offs are one measure of competition for places; they are not a complete measure of demand across the city’s higher-education sector, which also includes private institutions such as Loyola and CEU Fernando III.
