ACCESS TO DOCTORAL STUDIES
- Choose a research field from one of the Doctoral Programs that fits the candidateprofile as a research trainee.
- Contact the person responsible for the field to be accepted to complete the doctoral thesis work in that research field.
- Apply for enrolment in the doctorate program by filling in this FORM . You will need to submit the PDF form to the University of Lleida’s Registry.
- Attach the documentation listed in the application, including the acceptance of the tutor.
- Request the equivalence of the master degree if it was obtained abroad.
How international students can submit an AUTHORISED PDF FORM to the University of Lleida’s Registry?
The 5% of each doctoral program places will be reserved for students who have a degree of disability equal or greater than 33%. If these places were not covered, they would be offered to the rest of students.
At the moment of formalizing the admission (or the enrollment), the student must prove the degree of disability, providing the certificate of disability issued by the competent administration.
DOCUMENTS FOR THE ADMISSION
1. Copy of Foreigner Identification Number (NIE), passport or EU document
2. Doctoral programme tutor acceptance document
3. Official university studies
3.1 University Spanish official master’s degree level studies, or equivalent:
3.1.1 Official university degree
3.1.2 Studies completed in the EHEA (European Higher Education Area):
Europass diploma supplement: official document which accompanies the aforementioned university degree, valid throughout national territory with standardized, personalized information for each university graduate, on the programme followed, the results obtained, the professional skills acquired and the level of their qualification in the national Higher Education system of the issuing country.
3.1.3 Studies completed outside the EHEA (European Higher Education Area):
Official academic transcript with grades and credits (specifying duration in academic years and the list of the subjects studied including, for each one, the course load and the grade obtained, and indicating the grading system).
3.2 University studies prior to the master’s degree
3.2.1 Official university degree
3.2.2 Studies completed in the EHEA (European Higher Education Area):
3.2.3 Europass diploma supplement: official document which accompanies the aforementioned university degree, valid throughout national territory with standardized, personalized information for each university graduate, on the programme followed, the results obtained, the professional skills acquired and the level of their qualification in the national Higher Education system of the issuing country.
Studies completed outside the EHEA (European Higher Education Area):
Official academic transcript with grades and credits (specifying duration in academic years and the list of the subjects studied including, for each one, the course load and the grade obtained, and indicating the grading system).
4. When accessing with official postgraduate university studies taken abroad it is necessary to provide
4.1 Application for declaration of equivalence of the postgraduate qualification to master's degree level
4.2 Certificate from the foreign university where the master’s course was taken, indicating: that these studies provide authorization for access to the research phase of the doctorate, in the country where this university is located and that they correspond to EQF Level 7 of the European Qualifications Framework.
5. Curriculum Vitae
6. Translations and legalizations of the academic documents (degrees and official academic transcripts)
6.1 Consult Article 6.7 of the Academic Regulation on Doctoral Course
6.2 It is not necessary to translate the Europass diploma supplement issued in English
1 All of the documentation which is submitted for access and admission may be scanned copies of the original documents, but the certified copies or the originals to be certified must be provided at the time of registering for the doctorate.
2 For studies completed at the UdL, it is only necessary to present the academic transcript which accredits the corresponding details.
Power to verify personal data by the University of Lleida
The University of Lleida informs you that it is empowered to carry out the necessary verifications to verify the accuracy of the data that are essential to submit the application for admission. Pursuant to the provisions of Article 28.2 of Law 39/2015, of 1 October, on Common Administrative Procedure of the Public Administrations, you have the right to oppose the exercise of this power of verification, for reasons related to the your particular situation, by sending a message to the address escoladoctorat@udl.cat In any case, in the exercise of this right of opposition, you must prove the reasons that justify it, so that they are valued by the University, and you are obliged to contribute the documents to the consultation of which you oppose.
Access requeriments
Students wishing to access a doctoral programme verified by RD 99/2011, must meet the requirements laid down in Article 6.
Article 6. Requirements for access to a doctorate.
- In general, access to an official doctoral programme is available to persons in possession of a Spanish official bachelor's degree, or equivalent, and a university master's degree.
- Access is also available to persons who meet one of the following conditions:
- Being in possession of an official Spanish university qualification, or one of another member country of the European Higher Education Area, which qualifies them for access to a master's degree in accordance with the provisions of Article 16 of Royal Decee 1393/2007, of October 29, and having obtained a minimum of 300 ECTS credits in all official university studies, of which at least 60 must be at master's level.
- Being in possession of an official Spanish degree whose duration, according to the rules of Community law, is at least 300 ECTS credits.
Likewise, also they have to conform the requisites foreseen at the article 5 of the Academic Regulation on Doctoral Courses:
5.2 In general, to access Doctoral studies candidates must have an official Spanish degree or equivalent, and a university Master's degree, or equivalent, as long as they have passed at least 300 ECTS in all of these courses.
5.3 It can also be accessed by people who are in any of these other cases:
a) Be in possession of an official Spanish university degree, or from another country that is part of the European Higher Education Area, which enables access to a Master's degree in accordance with the provisions of article 16 of the Royal decree 1393/2007, of 29 October, and have passed a minimum of 300 ECTS credits in all official university studies, of which at least 60 must have been taken at Master's level. It will be understood that this requirement is met if they are in possession of a university degree that has been officially recognized as level 2 of the Spanish Qualifications Framework for Higher Education, in accordance with the procedure established in RD 967/2014, of November 21, and a minimum of 60 ECTS credits have been passed in the university Master's studies.
b) Be in possession of an official Spanish graduate degree, the duration of which, in accordance with Community law, must be of at least 300 ECTS credits. These graduates must take the training supplements referred to in article 7.2 of this standard unless the study plan of the corresponding degree includes research training credits, equivalent in training value to the credits in research from the Master's studies.
c) University graduates who, having previously obtained a training position in the corresponding test for access to specialized healthcare training places, have passed with positive evaluation at least two years of training in a programme to obtain the official title of some of the specialities in health sciences.
d) Be in possession of a degree obtained in accordance with foreign educational systems, without the need for its approval, with the prior verification of the university that it accredits a level of training equivalent to that of the official Spanish university Master's degree and which entitles the country issuing the degree for access to Doctoral studies. This admission does not imply, in any case, the approval of the previous title that the interested party holds or its recognition for purposes other than that of access to Doctoral courses.
e) Be in possession of another Spanish doctoral degree obtained in accordance with previous university regulations.
f) Be in possession of an official university degree that has been officially recognized as level 3 of the Spanish Qualifications Framework for Higher Education, in accordance with the procedure established in Royal Decree 967/2014, of November 21, by which the requirements and procedure are established for the approval and declaration of equivalence to degree and official university academic level and for the validation of foreign Higher Education studies, and the procedure to determine the correspondence to the levels of the Spanish Framework of Qualifications for Higher Education for the official titles of Architect, Engineer, Graduate, Technical Architect, Technical Engineer and Diploma.
5.4 In order to calculate the 300 ECTS to access the Doctorate studies, the following will be considered:
a) 1 LRU credit (qualifications prior to EEE) equivalent to 1 ECTS credit.
b) When the study documentation provided by the student does not include LRU credits (1 credit = 10 teaching hours) or ECTS credits (1 credit = 25 hours of total workload), the following equations will be used:
- Three-year bachelor's degree = 180 ECTS credits
- Second cycle engineering degree of two years = 120 ECTS credits
- Four-year bachelor's degree = 240 ECTS credits
- Four-year bachelor/engineering degree = 240 ECTS credits
- One-year master's or postgraduate degree that gives access to the Doctorate in the country issuing the degree = 60 ECTS credits
- Master's degree or two-year postgraduate degree that gives access to the Doctorate in the country issuing the degree = 120 ECTS credits
CALENDAR
The list of admitted and excluded to the 1st period of the 2023/2024 academic year, to the following Doctorate programs is published:
PhD Programme in Agricultural and Food Science and Technology
PhD Programme in Law and Business Administration
PhD Programme in Education, Society and Quality of Life
PhD Programme in Forest and Natural Environment Management
PhD Programme in Engineering and Information Technology
PhD Programme in Territory, Heritage and Culture
PhD Programme in Physical Activity and Sports
PhD Programme in Educative Tecnology
PhD Programme in Comprehensive Care and Health Services
PhD Programme in Bioinformatics
NOTE: Applications submitted after the deadline, as they are related to an application for predoctoral aid, will be resolved and notified individualy
