What I need to do a PhD

(According to the provisions of Spanish Royal Decree 576/2023, of 4th July, amending Spanish Royal Decree 99/2011, of 28th January, regulating recognised doctoral courses; Spanish Royal Decree 1002/2010, of 5th August, on the issuance of official university degrees: and Royal Decree Spanish 641/2021, of 27th July, which regulates direct grant of subsidies to Spanish public universities for modernisation and digitialisation of the Spanish university system within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.)

You can apply for admission to a UVic-UCC doctoral programme if you meet any of the following entry requirements:

• In general, to access a doctoral programme you should hold a recognised Spanish degree or equivalent and a master's degree or equivalent, and have passed at least 300 ECTS credits in total in these courses.

• You can also gain access in the following cases:

  a) You hold a recognised Spanish university degree or equivalent Spanish degree, you have passed at least 300 ECTS credits in total in these courses and you can certify Level 3 of the Spanish Qualifications Framework for Higher Education.

  b) You hold a degree from a foreign educational authority within the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), without the need for validation, certifying level 7 of the European Qualifications Framework, provided that in the country of issue this certificate enables access to doctoral studies. This type of admission does not mean that the previous degree of the person concerned has been validated, nor that it is recognised for any purpose other than that of accessing doctoral studies.

  c) You hold a degree from a foreign education authority outside the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), without the need for validation, provided that UVic-UCC has previously been able to verify that it certifies a level of training equivalent to that of the recognised Spanish master's degree and that in the country of issue this certificate enables access to doctoral studies. This type of admission does not mean that the previous degree of the person concerned has been validated, nor that it is recognised for any purpose other than that of accessing doctoral studies.

  d) You hold another doctoral degree.

  e) University graduates in a specialist health training position who have received positive assessments for at least two years of training in a programme leading to official recognition in one of the specialisms of Health Sciences.

University Academic Administration (AGA) (doctorats@uvic.cat) reviews these requirements. If you do not meet these general access requirements, AGA will notify you and the admission process will be discontinued.

Further to general access requirements, the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Programme (CAPD) may additionally require:

• A personal interview (obligatory in Integrated Care and Health Services)
• Accreditation of knowledge of a foreign language
• Letters of recommendation or academic endorsements
• Curriculum vitae of the supervisor, if you propose someone external to UVic-UCC
• Other documents that the CAPD deems appropriate

Consult the specific admission criteria established by the CAPD for each doctoral programme.