Official certificates of the Spanish language

The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid is official examination centre for Diplomas of Spanish as a Foreign Language (DELE). These are official titles, certifying degrees of competence and mastery in the Spanish language, granted by the Instituto Cervantes on behalf of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Professional Training. They are designed to assess and provide internationally recognized evidence of the level of proficiency in Spanish.

Likewise, the Universidad Carlos III is examination centre of the International Spanish Language Evaluation Service (SIELE ), which certifies electronically the command of the Spanish language proficiency for students and professionals across the world. SIELE certifies the degree of proficiency for Spanish in the four language skills and takes as a reference the levels laid in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) set by the Council of Europe.

Why an official certificate?

Exam	Type	Levels	Validity	Recognition
DELE	Written	Diploma certifying the degree of competence in Spanish from A1 to C2 (CEFR)	Indefinite	Internationally: institutions, companies, universities, etc. In Spain: Spanish nationality, MIR, FIR, etc.
SIELE	Computer-based	Certificate of proficiency in Spanish based on the sum of scores in each of the four tests and associated with the levels A1 - C1 (CEFR)	2 years	International Universities and companies