First year
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You are assigned a supervisor and a tutor and an enrolment centre where you will have to enrol. The admission to the programme is formalized by enrolment. |
Admission resolution
Copy of the documents showing the established cases for enrolment discounts, if applicable. |
| Research Plan: you have to write a research plan with the title of the Thesis, its objectives, methodology, means and timeline. |
Research Plan acceptation request: |
| Training activities: Each programme has its own training activities, some of them are done during the first year, but there are others for the following years. You have to agree on them with the programme’s supervisor. | Activities document: It shows all training activities done. It is indispensable to continue and to present the thesis. |
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It is possible to write a Thesis with co-tutorship: from each university and in the end the doctoral student gets a degree from both universities. |
Research plan accepted
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| In order to have access to the second year, the Research Plan must be approved. Otherwise, the Academic Commission gives a maximum period of six months to present a new plan. If the plan is rejected again, you are expelled from the programme. You can file an appeal or ask for admission to another programme. | |
Second year, Third year and the following ones
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Research and writing of the Thesis: The main activity of the doctoral student consists of carrying out a research and writing the thesis. Remember that some doctoral programmes offer training activities. The thesis may be done full-time, within three years and the possibility of one year of Extension; or part-time, five years and the possibility of two more of Extension. In both cases you can request exceptionally one last year of Extension. |
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Monitoring of the thesis: You have to present every academic year a document where you specify all your advances of the thesis. |
Evaluation of the monitoring of the thesis: The monitoring report has to be evaluated every year by the Academic Commission of the doctoral programme. |
| Stays abroad: It is possible to do research stays abroad during these years. | International Mention: If you want to get the International Mention, your stays have to be previously approved by the Academic Commission of the doctoral programme and fulfil the requisites to get the mention. |
| In order to advance to the following year the monitoring report has to have a positive evaluation. Otherwise, the Academic Commission gives a maximum period of six months to present a new plan. If the plan is accepted, you can continue working; oppositely, you are expelled from the programme. You can file an appeal or ask for admission to another programme. | |
Request of thesis deposit
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When the research plan has two consecutive positive monitoring reports and you consider that thesis has been completed, you can start the procedures for the thesis deposit request. We recommend that you start these procedures at least two months before the thesis defense. |
The authorisation request to thesis deposit to the Academic Commission: it has to be submitted to the Secretary for Students and Teaching Office of your supervisor’s Faculty with the corresponding documentation and has to be officially registered. |
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Once the Academic Commission approves the deposit, it informs the Doctorate Committee of the Faculty to authorize the defense, together with the thesis committee proposal. |
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| The thesis will be seven days in the deposit. During this period, any doctor can examine the thesis and formulate the considerations that he/she considers appropriate. | |
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If the Doctorate Commitee approves your deposit you will receive a notification with the defense approval and the thesis committee. |
Payment of the rights of the thesis defence
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Evaluation and thesis defence
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| The thesis defence is a public event in front of the members of the thesis committee. Then, the members of thesis committee may ask questions or say general considerations. | |
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Once the act has finished, the president of the thesis committee must publicly inform you of the grade obtained. If the overall grade is Excellent, the thesis committee may propose that you have the mention cum laude if the secret ballot is issued positive and unanimously. An Individual voting and in closed envelope is issued. The scrutiny is done at the Faculty. The chair of the doctoral commission will issue the final qualification and will inform you. |
Grade’s notification |
Title’s request
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Once the thesis has been passed, you have to pay the rights of the issuance of the degree. You will receive a valid legal guard, although the final title will still take a few months. |
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You are a Doctor!!! |
