New students: admission and access

Admission to the doctoral programme is the responsibility of the academic committee of each programme. You must contact the coordinator of the doctoral programme, or of the line, if it is the program of linguistic, literary and cultural studies, in which you are interested.

Once you have exchanged basic information with program or line coordination, you will have to formalize, through the computer application implemented on the Faculty website for this purpose, the application for admission.

Through the application, you will apply for admission, provide the documentation accrediting the academic requirements that the program requires and, if applicable, you will obtain the admission resolution.

Academic admission will be governed by the requirements and merits that each program has agreed to and, in any case, by the number of places offered.

Once you have obtained admission to the program, you will have to continue the procedure and formalize the application for admission. Access is approved by the dean of the Faculty, and in order to obtain it you need to record documentally that the level of previous studies you have reached is sufficient to access Spanish doctoral studies. Obtaining access will in all cases make it conditional upon obtaining admission and authorisation to complete the enrolment.

Access to doctoral studies is valid for any of the doctoral programmes offered by the Faculty of Philology. Academic admission only allows matriculation in the program that has authorized it.

In order to access an UB doctoral programme, you must have an official bachelor's degree, or equivalent, and a university master's degree and have a minimum of 300 ECTS credits exceeded as a whole. However, there are different access pathways depending on the course of studies prior to Spain or abroad.

The doctorands you started and enrolled in a PhD program from the currently extinct UB that you want to continue studies in the current edition of the same program, you do not need to apply for access. You will only have to apply for admission into the new program, always under the current admission criteria.

Other access routes with Spanish studies are:

• With an official Spanish university degree that obtained correspondence at level 3 of MECES. Documentation
  With Investigative Sufficiency. Documentation
  With a doctor's degree obtained according to previous regulations.

To consult the dates on which you can apply for access and register enter here.

1. To have a foreign official degree equivalent to a graduate and another equivalent to a master's degree, without the need to homologate them, with the prior check of the university that this degree accredits to a level of training equivalent to that of the Spanish university master's degree and that entitles the country that issues the degree for access to doctoral studies. Retrieving access to doctoral studies does not imply the approval of the previous degree the interested party has, nor its recognition for other purposes other than access to doctoral teachings.
2. Having an official Spanish degree (graduate or master's degree) and an official foreign degree (graduate or master's degree) : although you have a Spanish master's degree and, therefore, you have already checked the foreign documentation corresponding to the degree, you must resubmit the documentation of the foreign degree (unless the Spanish degree has been obtained at the same faculty). Equally if you have a Spanish degree and a foreign master's degree.

Documentation and rate of equivalence study of foreign studies

As is usual in these cases, all documents must be officially translated (if they are in language other than Catalan, Spanish or English) and legalized. For information on foreign document requirements, see here. Request for equivalence study of foreign studies for access to doctoral programs involves payment of a fee (see amount in Other fees).