36 monthsProgramme duration
424 EURTuition Fee/year
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Programme overview
Main Subject
Biological Sciences
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
The students to be admitted to the Doctoral Program in Biology will be students, Spanish or foreign, who accredit the legal requirements for access provided for in art. 6 of RD 99/2011. Given the subject of the doctorate in Biology, it is generally aimed at graduates (or Bachelors) in Biology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Forest Sciences, Forest Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Natural Environment Engineering and other degrees with minimum skills acquired to be able to follow these studies and have passed 60 ECTS in master's degrees. In general, students must have extensive knowledge and skills acquired in the field of Biology. The competencies are:
- Systematic understanding of a field of study and command of skills and research methods related to said field.
- Ability to conceive, design or create, put into practice and adopt a substantial research or creation process.
- Ability to contribute to expanding the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
- Ability to carry out a critical analysis and evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
- Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.
- Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a society based on knowledge.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Biological Sciences
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
The students to be admitted to the Doctoral Program in Biology will be students, Spanish or foreign, who accredit the legal requirements for access provided for in art. 6 of RD 99/2011. Given the subject of the doctorate in Biology, it is generally aimed at graduates (or Bachelors) in Biology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Forest Sciences, Forest Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Natural Environment Engineering and other degrees with minimum skills acquired to be able to follow these studies and have passed 60 ECTS in master's degrees. In general, students must have extensive knowledge and skills acquired in the field of Biology. The competencies are:
- Systematic understanding of a field of study and command of skills and research methods related to said field.
- Ability to conceive, design or create, put into practice and adopt a substantial research or creation process.
- Ability to contribute to expanding the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
- Ability to carry out a critical analysis and evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
- Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.
- Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a society based on knowledge.
Admission Requirements
If you are from an EU country, you will have access if you hold a bachelor's degree, or equivalent, from a Spanish university or from a university in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and a university Masters degree. You may also apply if you have a minimum number of 300 ECTS credits, of which at least 60 (one academic year) must be at Masters level. ECTS are credits recognised in the European Higher Education Area and are equivalent to 25-30 hours of work.
If you are a graduate from outside the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) you can access the university without the need to certify your degrees, once the UCM verified that the level of studies is equivalent to a Masters degree at a university in Spain. Access via this route does not in any case imply the official certification of your degree prior to starting your Masters course.
To complete your doctoral studies you will need to present a doctoral thesis consisting of an original work of research by the student in any field of knowledge.
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