42 monthsProgramme duration
Programme overview
Main Subject
Finance
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
GOALS OF THE PROGRAM
To train professionals, specialists, and researchers in the financial field, capable of analyzing timely information and assisting in financial decision-making in business, banking, and academia, as well as in public finance.
OCCUPATIONAL FIELD
The graduate will primarily find professional development opportunities in the financial sector analysis departments of large companies at the regional and national levels, entrepreneurship in disruptive areas within the Fintech field, in small businesses developing within the financial sector, and in the academic sector at both public and private universities in the region, with the ability to lead research teams and integrate into the national system of researchers.
Lines of Knowledge Generation and/or Application (LGAC)
Public Finance: This line of research focuses on the study of how governments collect taxes and channel the resources obtained into health, education, and infrastructure, managing income and expenses to achieve economic stability and social welfare, through fiscal policy and budget management, as well as the management of the budget, public debt, and the distribution of resources, directly influencing the country's economy and the lives of its citizens.
Corporate Finance: This line of research seeks to generate knowledge about strategic management focused on how companies obtain, allocate, and manage their financial resources to maximize shareholder value. It emphasizes decision-making regarding investment, financing, and dividend distribution, aiming for the highest profitability and long-term sustainability for issuers.
Stock Market Finance: This line of research focuses on analyzing how issuers design and carry out the purchase and sale of financial assets such as stocks and bonds in the stock market, observing the relationships they maintain with companies that need capital and with investors seeking returns, under the approach of supply and demand and regulations to always ensure transparency and facilitating corporate financing and diversified investment at all times.
To train professionals, specialists, and researchers in the financial field, capable of analyzing timely information and assisting in financial decision-making in business, banking, and academia, as well as in public finance.
OCCUPATIONAL FIELD
The graduate will primarily find professional development opportunities in the financial sector analysis departments of large companies at the regional and national levels, entrepreneurship in disruptive areas within the Fintech field, in small businesses developing within the financial sector, and in the academic sector at both public and private universities in the region, with the ability to lead research teams and integrate into the national system of researchers.
Lines of Knowledge Generation and/or Application (LGAC)
Public Finance: This line of research focuses on the study of how governments collect taxes and channel the resources obtained into health, education, and infrastructure, managing income and expenses to achieve economic stability and social welfare, through fiscal policy and budget management, as well as the management of the budget, public debt, and the distribution of resources, directly influencing the country's economy and the lives of its citizens.
Corporate Finance: This line of research seeks to generate knowledge about strategic management focused on how companies obtain, allocate, and manage their financial resources to maximize shareholder value. It emphasizes decision-making regarding investment, financing, and dividend distribution, aiming for the highest profitability and long-term sustainability for issuers.
Stock Market Finance: This line of research focuses on analyzing how issuers design and carry out the purchase and sale of financial assets such as stocks and bonds in the stock market, observing the relationships they maintain with companies that need capital and with investors seeking returns, under the approach of supply and demand and regulations to always ensure transparency and facilitating corporate financing and diversified investment at all times.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Finance
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
GOALS OF THE PROGRAM
To train professionals, specialists, and researchers in the financial field, capable of analyzing timely information and assisting in financial decision-making in business, banking, and academia, as well as in public finance.
OCCUPATIONAL FIELD
The graduate will primarily find professional development opportunities in the financial sector analysis departments of large companies at the regional and national levels, entrepreneurship in disruptive areas within the Fintech field, in small businesses developing within the financial sector, and in the academic sector at both public and private universities in the region, with the ability to lead research teams and integrate into the national system of researchers.
Lines of Knowledge Generation and/or Application (LGAC)
Public Finance: This line of research focuses on the study of how governments collect taxes and channel the resources obtained into health, education, and infrastructure, managing income and expenses to achieve economic stability and social welfare, through fiscal policy and budget management, as well as the management of the budget, public debt, and the distribution of resources, directly influencing the country's economy and the lives of its citizens.
Corporate Finance: This line of research seeks to generate knowledge about strategic management focused on how companies obtain, allocate, and manage their financial resources to maximize shareholder value. It emphasizes decision-making regarding investment, financing, and dividend distribution, aiming for the highest profitability and long-term sustainability for issuers.
Stock Market Finance: This line of research focuses on analyzing how issuers design and carry out the purchase and sale of financial assets such as stocks and bonds in the stock market, observing the relationships they maintain with companies that need capital and with investors seeking returns, under the approach of supply and demand and regulations to always ensure transparency and facilitating corporate financing and diversified investment at all times.
To train professionals, specialists, and researchers in the financial field, capable of analyzing timely information and assisting in financial decision-making in business, banking, and academia, as well as in public finance.
OCCUPATIONAL FIELD
The graduate will primarily find professional development opportunities in the financial sector analysis departments of large companies at the regional and national levels, entrepreneurship in disruptive areas within the Fintech field, in small businesses developing within the financial sector, and in the academic sector at both public and private universities in the region, with the ability to lead research teams and integrate into the national system of researchers.
Lines of Knowledge Generation and/or Application (LGAC)
Public Finance: This line of research focuses on the study of how governments collect taxes and channel the resources obtained into health, education, and infrastructure, managing income and expenses to achieve economic stability and social welfare, through fiscal policy and budget management, as well as the management of the budget, public debt, and the distribution of resources, directly influencing the country's economy and the lives of its citizens.
Corporate Finance: This line of research seeks to generate knowledge about strategic management focused on how companies obtain, allocate, and manage their financial resources to maximize shareholder value. It emphasizes decision-making regarding investment, financing, and dividend distribution, aiming for the highest profitability and long-term sustainability for issuers.
Stock Market Finance: This line of research focuses on analyzing how issuers design and carry out the purchase and sale of financial assets such as stocks and bonds in the stock market, observing the relationships they maintain with companies that need capital and with investors seeking returns, under the approach of supply and demand and regulations to always ensure transparency and facilitating corporate financing and diversified investment at all times.
Admission Requirements
In addition to those stipulated by current university regulations, the requirements for admission to the Doctoral Program in Finance are as follows:
For students with previous studies completed abroad, in addition to the above, the following is required:
The degree, certificates and birth certificate must be apostilled or the applicable procedure for countries not members of the Hague Convention and if they are in a language other than Spanish, accompany a translation by an accredited expert.
- A simple copy of the degree or degree examination certificate for the master's degree issued by an official higher education institution, in the area of finance, accounting, economics or mathematics.
- Master's degree certificate with an average grade equal to or greater than 80 (eighty) or its equivalent.
- Original birth certificate.
- Have a Unique Population Registry Code (CURP). In the case of foreigners, it must be valid.
- Demonstrate the applicant's knowledge of the English language through an official document, accrediting at least level B1 of the common European framework of reference for languages or its equivalent; evaluations such as TOEFL, TOEIC, and IELTS will be considered equivalent.
- Present a research protocol that is linked to one of the Lines of Generation and Application of Knowledge of the educational program.
- Submit a letter of intent explaining your interest in studying the doctoral program and the research area(s) that interest you;
- Conduct an interview with members of the Academic Board or with whomever this collegiate body designates.
- Two letters of recommendation from academics and/or researchers.
- Updated curriculum vitae highlighting your research work or projects in which you have participated.
- Approve the other requirements published in the respective call for applications.
- Applicants who are graduates and/or have received a degree from the University of Guadalajara are exempt from submitting a simple copy or original of the requirements established in sections a), b) and c) of this resolution, since the school archive already contains the electronic information of the same.
For students with previous studies completed abroad, in addition to the above, the following is required:
The degree, certificates and birth certificate must be apostilled or the applicable procedure for countries not members of the Hague Convention and if they are in a language other than Spanish, accompany a translation by an accredited expert.
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