The admission of the regular student for the Postgraduate Program in Law at PUC Minas, which is regulated by the institution's public notice announced in every selection process, includes the following steps: application, foreign language exam, discursive essay, curriculum analysis, and an interview by the examining board.

The application is carried out digitally, and it might be necessary to provide part of the documentation in person. After the registration deadline, the program coordination will evaluate the documentation submitted by the candidate, verifying if the formal requirements have been met.

For the language eliminatory exam, the candidate will be tested in one or more languages, according to the course level. The indication of the language will appear on the public notice. The candidate for the Master's degree must demonstrate proficiency in only one foreign language, as for the doctorate, it is required proficiency in at least two foreign languages. The following languages are currently part of the selection process: English, German, Italian, and French. The foreign candidate, albeit being a naturalized Brazilian citizen, will not be able to enroll in a language exam that is the official language of his/her country of origin. Under the terms of the public notice, the candidate that proves language proficiency may be dismissed from this stage.

The successful candidate in the first stage (the foreign language exam) will proceed to the second stage of the selection process, of an eliminatory and classificatory nature, which consists of a discursive essay dealing with the works indicated in the public notice in the respective lines of research.

The third stage, also of an eliminatory and classificatory nature, consists of an individual interview of the candidate by the examining board to discuss the research project and other items such as intellectual capacity, academic profile, availability to dedicate to the course, and the quality and adequacy of the proposal according to the pedagogical project of the course and its lines of research.

The evaluation of the curriculum vitae is part of this third stage and is carried out in advance by the coordination board of the course based on the objective criteria provided by the Barema form (annex that accompanies the notice).

The candidate's final grade will be the simple average of the grades obtained in the discursive essay, in the Barema form, and in the interview. To be approved, the student must have a final grade equal to or higher than 6 out of 10 points.