Candidates matching one of the general entry requirements for PhD students will be assessed in accordance with the specific criteria and merits for each programme. Information relating to application procedures and requirements are included in the programme structure for each course.
The decision to offer a student a place on a UDC PhD programme is the result of an application-specific evaluation process, and does not affect the academic or professional status of the candidate’s existing qualifications.
See also UDC PhD Policies and Regulations, Article 5: Applications.
Recommended profile of admission
The entry profile establishes the previous training requirements of the students to be admitted to the program. In general, anyone in any of the following situations may be admitted to the programme:
- Branch of knowledge: Health Sciences, Social and Legal Sciences
- Field(s) of knowledge: Medicine and dentistry, Nursing, Physiotherapy, podiatry, nutrition and dietetics, occupational therapy, optics and optometry and speech therapy, as well as Physical activity and sports sciences, Biology and genetics, Biochemistry and biotechnology, Biomedical sciences, Behavioural sciences and psychology, Social sciences, social work, sociology, Pharmacy.
- Competencies, skills and previous knowledge: Basic aspects of research.
- Access qualifications: Bachelor's and master's degrees in the area of Health Sciences, Social and Legal Sciences and Sciences.
- Recommended language skills for carrying out these studies: basic knowledge of English (ability to read scientific texts in English)
- Have earned the DEA degree in programs similar to this doctoral program.
Cases that do not fit the admission profile will be studied by the CAPD, which may or may not proceed to admission, and establish specific training complements
Application general procedure
Applications and registration for PhD programmes will be made using the online application system on the UDC website, accompanied by all necessary supporting documents. Applications and registration for external students will be made here.
If you need more information, you can check this sources the Application general procedure.
Specific access requirements of the CAPD
Program admission criteria. The selection of students for admission to the programme will be made based on the following criteria:
- Endorsement of a director with accredited research experience (50%). The highest score will be awarded to the fact of presenting the endorsement of a professor of the program, with accredited research experience, linked to one of the lines of research according to the preliminary thesis project presented. It will be a requirement for admission to the program to obtain a score of at least 30% in this criterion.
- Academic record (20%), determined by the most favourable weighted average grade of the undergraduate or postgraduate degrees studied, weighted according to affinity to the lines of research of the doctoral programme.
- Obtaining scholarships or predoctoral research contracts (10%).
- Professional experience and previous publications (10%). Publications (preferably originals and reviews) indexed in JCR (10%) and SJR (5%) and their suitability to the program's lines of research will be valued.
- Knowledge of a foreign language (10%): only assessable from a level equal to or higher than B2 or equivalent.
In order to be assessed, merits must be documented and consistent with the lines of research of the programme. The same admission criteria will be applied to all students, both full-time and part-time.
Documentation to be submitted for the assessment of admission and merits by the CAPD. For the assessment of
merits by the CAPD, the following documentation must be submitted, published on the program's website (https://www.doctoradosalud.udc.es/admision/):
- Preliminary thesis project, endorsed by at least one professor of the programme, or an external one, with accredited research experience and justification of the contribution to the existing lines of research
- Where appropriate, form from the directors or co-directors accrediting that they meet the requirements established to be able to supervise theses
- Copy of ID card or passport
- A collated copy of the official university degrees that give access to doctoral studies. The facility's administration can check the documentation when it receives it
- Official academic certification of the studies completed
- Where appropriate, certification from the competent body of having obtained a positive evaluation of specialized health training, for at least two years, in a program to obtain the official degree of one of the specialties in Health Sciences
In the event that a selection of students is made because the demand is greater than the number of places offered, students will be asked to submit an abbreviated Curriculum Vitae (CV) that includes the points included in the criteria of the scale.
Deadlines
The application for admission (or registration renewal) and enrollment in PhD studies will be carried out according to the terms approved by the Governing Council of the UDC.
Registration
See information on how to register for UDC PhD courses.