Access
General:
1) In general, to access a doctoral programme it will be necessary to be in possession of the Spanish bachelor's degrees, or equivalent, and a university master's degree.
2) Likewise, anyone who is in any of the following cases may access:
a) Be in possession of a Spanish university degree or from another country that is a member of the European Higher Education Area, which qualifies for access to the master's degree in accordance with that established in article art.18 of the R.D. 822/2021, and pass a minimum of 300 ECTS credits in all university studies, of which at least 60 must be at master's level.
b) Be in possession of a Spanish graduate degree, the duration of which, in accordance with community law standards, is at least 300 ECTS credits. These graduates must take the complementary training required by the programme on a compulsory basis, except that the study plan of the corresponding bachelor's degree includes research training credits equivalent in training value to the research credits from master's studies.
c) University graduates who, after obtaining a training place in the corresponding test for access to specialised health training places, pass with a positive evaluation at least two years of training in a programme to obtain the title of one of the specialties in health sciences.
d) Be in possession of a degree obtained in accordance with foreign educational systems, without the need for its homologation, after verification by the university that it accredits a level of training equivalent to that of the Spanish university master's degree and that it authorizes in the country issuer of the degree for access to doctoral studies. This admission will not imply, in any case, the homologation of the previous degree of which the interested party is in possession or its recognition for purposes other than access to doctoral education.
e) Be in possession of another Spanish doctoral degree obtained in accordance with previous university regulations.
f) Be in possession of a university degree that had obtained correspondence to level 3 of the Spanish Framework of Qualifications for Higher Education, in accordance with the procedure established in Royal Decree 967/2014, of November 21, for which establish the requirements and procedure for the homologation and declaration of equivalence to a degree and to an official university academic level and for the validation of foreign Higher Education studies, and the procedure to determine correspondence to the levels of the Spanish Framework of Qualifications for Higher Education of the titles of Architect, Engineer, Graduate, Technical Architect, Technical Engineer and Diploma.
3) Doctoral students who will begin their doctoral programme in accordance with previous university regulations will be able to access doctoral education, after their admission in accordance with that established in the USC Doctoral Studies Regulations. In any case, they must meet the requirements generally established in the aforementioned Regulations to access doctoral studies.
4) Graduates, architects or engineers who have a diploma of advanced studies obtained in accordance with the provisions of Royal Decree 778/1998, of April 30, or who achieve research proficiency regulated in the Royal Decree may access doctoral studies: decree 185/1985, of January 23.
5) Graduates, architects, or engineers who hold a master's degree in accordance with Royal Decree 56/2005 or Royal Decree 822/2021, or have completed 60 ECTS of master's studies, may access doctoral studies.
6) Graduates, technical engineers or technical architects who can prove they have completed 300 ECTS credits in all university studies, of which at least 60 must be at master's level, may also enter.
