48 monthsProgramme duration
AugStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Food Science
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
- Research on eating behavior.
- Nutrition research.
- Research in food pathology.
Goals
- To train high-level researchers, competent in research on eating behavior, with a broad knowledge of the conceptual and methodological foundations of the discipline, capable of carrying out original research with international recognition.
- To train researchers to assume positions in research, teaching, and multidisciplinary collaboration in public and private institutions.
- To produce internationally renowned researchers capable of preparing and leading other researchers or research groups, with the necessary skills to formulate alternative solutions to food problems.
- To promote the identification, research, analysis and resolution of problems related to food, through the contribution of practical, original and innovative ideas.
- To contribute to the decentralization of postgraduate programs and scientific research.
- To promote the consolidation of high-quality postgraduate programs at the University of Guadalajara, in general, and at the Southern University Center, in particular.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Food Science
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
- Research on eating behavior.
- Nutrition research.
- Research in food pathology.
Goals
- To train high-level researchers, competent in research on eating behavior, with a broad knowledge of the conceptual and methodological foundations of the discipline, capable of carrying out original research with international recognition.
- To train researchers to assume positions in research, teaching, and multidisciplinary collaboration in public and private institutions.
- To produce internationally renowned researchers capable of preparing and leading other researchers or research groups, with the necessary skills to formulate alternative solutions to food problems.
- To promote the identification, research, analysis and resolution of problems related to food, through the contribution of practical, original and innovative ideas.
- To contribute to the decentralization of postgraduate programs and scientific research.
- To promote the consolidation of high-quality postgraduate programs at the University of Guadalajara, in general, and at the Southern University Center, in particular.
Admission Requirements
- Statement of reasons for pursuing the doctoral program.
- Submit the degree certificate or diploma of a related master's degree, at the discretion of the Academic Board.
- Demonstrate a minimum average of 80 (eighty) with an original master's degree certificate.
- Present the research project that the student will carry out as a doctoral thesis, based on the guide established for this purpose by the Academic Board of the postgraduate program.
- Present accreditation of the EXANI III admission exam for the graduate cycle of CENEVAL.
- Take and pass a reading comprehension exam in at least one foreign language.
- Demonstrate a minimum score of 450 on the TOEFL.
- In the case of being a foreigner, demonstrate the ability to support oneself financially during studies;
- Interview with the Academic Board, once the research project has been approved.
- Those additional ones established by the call for applications.
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