• ENTRY: Students who wish to apply for a place on the research track of the doctoral programme will have to comply with some minimum requirements. The Academic Management Service and the International Center will check the Spanish qualifications and the non-recognized foreign qualifications, respectively, and determine whether students can move on to the admission phase.
  In all cases, previous acceptance by the future thesis supervisor must be justified.
• ADMISSION: Once the Academic Management Service or the International Center has checked that students comply with all entry requirements, the selection committee for each doctoral programme must agree whether they are academically suited to the programme and can be admitted.

At the URV website:

1. Filling in the application that you will find at the following address:
   https://wis.si.urv.es/doctorat/alumne/
2. Presenting the documentation before the end of the preregistration period.
   Documentation required:

• Students whose entry qualification has been issued by the URV and/or other Spanish universities
• Students whose entry qualification has been issued  by foreign higher education institutions from the European Higher Education Area (EHEA)
• Students whose entry qualification has been issued by foreign higher education institutions outside the European Higher Education Area (EHEA)

• hold an official university master’s degree or the receipt to show that it has been requested;
or,
• have passed a minimum of 60 credits on one or several university master’s degrees
or,
• hold a degree certificate for a programme of at least 300 credits (Medicine, Architecture or Veterinary Science)
or,
• hold the Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA), awarded in accordance with the provisions of RD 778/1998 of 30 April, or the certificate of research aptitude regulated in RD 185/1985 of 23 January
or,
•hold a certificate of specialist in health sciences (10th additional provision of the RD 1393/2007 of 29 October)
or,
• hold a qualification in one of the health professions, regulated by Law 44/2003 of 21 November, and have satisfactorily completed at least the first year of residency within the training programme of a medical speciality recognized by the Ministry of Health and Consumption.

- Students whose entry qualification has been issued by foreign higher education institutions from the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) must:

• hold an official university master’s degree or another degree of the same educational level.
This degree must enable students to access doctoral programmes in the country of issuance..

- Students whose entry qualification has been issued by foreign higher education institutions outside the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) must:

• hold a degree that is equivalent to a university master’s degree in Spain.
This degree must enable students to access doctoral programmes in the country of issuance.

• Students with Spanish qualifications: Before the 15th of every month (October to May).
• Students with foreign qualifications: As soon as the entry requirements have been checked

Delivering the following documents to the administrative secretary’s office of the body responsible for the doctorate:

• List of candidates, in accordance with the entry conditions (academic qualifications)
• Application for entry and admission with the corresponding report by the Academic Management Service
• The documents presented.
• Check list of the documents presented (only those students who have not studied at the URV)

The following factors will be taken into account:

• The number of places provided for by the initial doctoral programme report
• The report and the documents delivered by the Academic Management Service
• The selection criteria determined in the initial doctoral programme report
• The criteria deemed suitable for determining whether the educational level of the student is equivalent to the Spanish qualification of university master’s degree

Once a decision has been taken:

• Candidates will be informed via e-mail of whether they have been admitted. They shall also be told the name of their thesis supervisor, the line of research they shall be investigating, and the date, time and place of the first tutorial with their supervisor about their thesis.
• The list of candidates admitted and excluded will be published on the website set up for this purpose.
• The relevant agreement and documents will be sent to the chairperson of the Postgraduate and Doctoral Committee by means of the Academic Management Service before the 25th of every month (October to May)

• The body responsible for the doctoral programme will ask the students for the specific documents required and any other documents so that it can be determined whether they are academically suitable for the programme and can be admitted.
  • The body responsible for the doctoral programme determines the minimum number of credits that a candidate must have completed between the undergraduate and postgraduate studies.
  • According to the regulation governing official postgraduate programmes at the URV, for candidates to be admitted on a doctoral programme they must have completed the research track of a master’s degree.

If candidates have completed the professional track of a master’s degree, the body responsible for the programme shall assess whether some of the subjects can be considered to be equivalent to those of the research track.

Whatever the case may be, by studying the academic transcript and the curriculum vitae, the body responsible for the doctoral programme will determine whether the candidates comply with the requirements and can be directly admitted on the programme, or whether they need to do some further background studies more directed at research training.

• The chair presents the proposals made by the bodies responsible for the doctoral programmes.
• The proposals are studied and appraised.
• The agreement is communicated to the Academic Management Service so that, if necessary, the candidates can register for their thesis tutorial, between the 25th and the 30th of every month (October to May)