CNAEF
Published 4 November 2026, 00:38
Classificação Nacional de Áreas de Educação e Formação — national classification of fields of education
An official list in which every study programme has its own numerical field code: 481 for computer science, 523 for electronics and automation, 461 for mathematics and so on. A course is given its code when it is recognised, and the code does not depend on what the university calls the programme in its advertising.
Where you come across it. applying for a grant, recognition of a foreign degree, selection for state support programmes, statistics on graduates.
When the terms of a grant or programme say "for certain fields", it is the CNAEF code of your course that counts. You can find it out from your university or in the programme description on the DGES website; you cannot guess it from the name of the subject.
Official website: dges.gov.pt