Education - Admission and registration

• Access requirements and general admission criteria

Here you can see the access requirements and general admission criteria to pre-register to the doctoral programme.

In addition to this, check the specific admission criteria of this programme, which you will find below on this website.

• Documentation required for pre-registration

Here you will find the academic calendar, the link to pre-register and which documentation you should present in PDF for pre-registration.

Requirements and admission criteria of the doctoral programme

Candidates who wish to be admitted to the Doctoral Degree in Education must submit a series of documents (listed below). Each document will be assessed and given a score on a scale of 0 to 10 and will have a specific weight (percentage) in the calculation of the candidate's admission score. In general, applications with a score of less than 5 out of 10 will not be successful. The documents that the candidate must submit are:

• A research proposal relating to one of the research lines of the doctoral programme. The proposal must briefly outline the research objectives and the potential area of work. (25% of the admission score)
• A letter of support from a researcher on the Doctoral Degree in Education, who may also act as a potential thesis supervisor, and a research proposal. (10% of the admission score)

The two previous documents are mandatory and applications will be dismissed if they are not submitted. An application will also be dismissed if the score for the research proposal is less than 5 out of 10.

• Letter of motivation. Presentation of this document is obligatory for candidates with official master's degrees or equivalent qualifications that are not related to any of the academic areas linked to this programme (i.e. master's degrees in areas other than education, teacher training, specific teaching or educational psychology). Applicants in this situation must obtain a minimum score of 7 out of 10 for their letters of motivation in order to be admitted. (15% of the admission score)
• Curriculum Vitae (40% of the admission score), which must include the following information:
  - Academic transcript of the candidate's undergraduate degree and its relevance to the candidate's profile.
  - Academic transcript of the candidate's master's degree and its relevance to the candidate's profile.
  - Research grants, seed funding and awards received.
  - Previous professional experience in educational settings.
• Foreign language proficiency (10% of the admission score). Spanish and Catalan speaking students must present a certificate demonstrating a level of proficiency equivalent to B1 (CEFR) in a foreign language used in scientific contexts (English or French). Students who are not native speakers of Spanish or Catalan must prevent a certificate demonstrating a level of proficiency equivalent to B2 (CEFR) in one of these languages.

​Complementary training

If a candidate's prior training is in a field of knowledge other than education, the academic committee of the doctoral programme may require the candidate to take up to 15 credits of bridging courses to ensure that they possess the competencies required by the doctoral programme. These bridging courses are also required subjects for the successful completion of the URV's master's programmes related to the field of education; that is, the Master's Degree in Education in Rural Territories, the Master's Degree in Teacher Training for Compulsory Secondary Education, Upper Secondary Education and Vocational Training, and the Master's Degree in Innovation in Social and Educational Intervention.

Candidates who have been told to take bridging courses may take the following modules:

• From the URV Master's Degree in Teacher Training for Compulsory Secondary Education, Upper Secondary Education and Vocational Training:
  - Learning and Personality Development (4 ECTS)
  - Educational Processes and Contexts (4 ECTS)
  - Career Guidance and Citizenship (4 ECTS)
  - Society, Family and Education (4 ECTS)
  - Pedagogical Innovation and Introduction to Educational Research (5 ECTS)
• From the URV Master's Degree in Innovation and Social and Educational Intervention:
  - Methods and Techniques of Social and Educational Research (6 ECTS)

The completion of these modules is intended to ensure that the candidate has the ability to:

- Understand the elements that shape educational action and the regulations and the institutional conditions that frame it.
- Identify educational models for planning and designing the teaching and learning process.
- Understand the historical evolution and current trends in education.
- Understand the psychological, personal, interpersonal and contextual factors involved in lifelong learning.
- Understand the key principles of educational innovation and research.

• Registration (online registration)

See how to register here.