Duration of doctoral studies

The duration of doctoral studies is a maximum of four years, full-time, or seven years, part-time. When the doctoral student is a person with a recognized degree of disability equal to or greater than 33%, the duration of studies is a maximum of six years, full-time, or nine, part-time. The duration is counted from the date on which the first enrollment is formalized to the date on which authorization to deposit the doctoral thesis is requested.

Academic guardianship registration will be formalized for each academic year, regardless of the date of the first registration.

The doctoral student can request the modification of the dedication regime only once to the academic committee of the program, before the end of the period corresponding to the maximum duration of the studies, and as long as the extension has not been authorized. This request must be submitted and resolved before the start of the academic year, attaching a new commitment document signed by everyone involved in the research work.

HOW?: application, motivation + commitment document (all documents with digital signature)

WHERE?: Generic Instance

For the purposes of the provisions of the regulations regarding the duration of the studies, the following equivalence of change of dedication regime is established: 1 full-time academic year is equivalent to 2 part-time academic years.

If the period corresponding to the maximum duration of the studies passes without having requested authorization to deposit the doctoral thesis, the academic committee can authorize an exceptional extension of one more year if the doctoral student requests it.

1. In the case of full-time studies, the maximum duration of the doctorate in total 4+1= 5 years.

2. In the case of part-time studies, the maximum duration of the doctorate in total 7+1= 8 years.

3. In the case of students with a recognized degree of disability equal to or greater than 33%:

    full-time studies, the maximum duration of the doctorate in total 6+1= 7 years.

    part-time studies, the maximum duration of the doctorate in total 9+1= 10 years.

HOW?: request, reasoned (the document with a digital signature)

The situations of temporary incapacity, birth, adoption or guardianship for the purposes of adoption, fostering, risk during pregnancy or during breastfeeding, gender violence, or any other situation foreseen by current regulations, during the period of studies, they interrupt the calculation of the duration period

aforementioned maximum. Doctoral students who find themselves in any of these situations must inform the directors and the tutor, and must communicate this to the academic committee of the doctoral program through the faculty's student and teaching secretariat, providing the corresponding supporting documentation, using the form. The period of sick leave will be credited in your file.

For personal reasons, the PhD student can request periods of temporary absence from the program for personal reasons, up to a total of two years. He must inform the directors and the tutor. This request, duly justified, has

to address the academic committee of the program through the student and teaching secretariat. The academic committee of the program must resolve the request.

The leave period will be credited in your file and will be deducted from the calculation of permanence established by the regulations.

HOW?: request, reasoned (the document with a digital signature)

WHERE?: Generic Instance

Definitive withdrawal makes it impossible for the doctoral student to continue in the program in which he was enrolled and leads to the closure of his file. You cannot apply for admission to the same program until a minimum of two academic years have passed. However, the doctoral student can request access and admission for the following year in another doctoral program at the University of Barcelona.

The following are reasons for definitive withdrawal from the program:

a) Not having passed the training supplements in the first academic year.

b) The doctoral student’s communication of definitive abandonment of the program.

c) The termination of the maximum duration of the studies and, where appropriate, of the corresponding extension.

d) The denial of the requested extension, in accordance with the provisions of article 13 of these regulations.

e) Not having enrolled in the doctoral program for an academic year, nor having requested a temporary leave.

f) Not having requested the acceptance of the research plan within the established period.

g) The non-acceptance of the research plan by the academic committee, in accordance with what is established in article 25 of these regulations, or the unfavorable annual monitoring and evaluation report of the research plan, in accordance with the procedure established in article 26.

h) Not having submitted the documents determined by the academic committee of the doctoral program within the established period to carry out the evaluation and the annual monitoring of the research plan.