How to apply

In order to be able to register for a UPF PhD programme's you need to follow the six steps below:

 

Check that you meet the admission requirements and that you have the documents which are needed

The information on admission requirements and the documents you have to send can be found in the Admission requirements section on each PhD programmes's web page.

Apply

You can apply from 1 November 2009 to 30 June 2010 trough this on-line application form.

See the "Scholarships and grants" section of this website for other scholarships and grants for graduate studies. 

Send us the documents (photocopies)

After having checked the section of the PhD programme you are interested in for specific admission requirements, send us photocopies of the required application documents by courier or regular mail to the following address: 

Admissions Office

Pompeu Fabra University
Institutional Information and Promotion Unit

Plaça de la Mercè, 10-12

08002 Barcelona
Spain

If you prefer to hand in your documents personally, you can do so at any UPF Student Information Desk (PIE). You can find an Information Desk at the Library in each of the three UPF campuses:

Ciutadella Campus: Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27. 08005 Barcelona
Communication Campus - Poblenou: Roc Boronat, 138. 08018 Barcelona
Mar Campus: Dr. Aiguader, 80. 08003 Barcelona

Telephone: (+34) 93 542 22 28
Working hours: 9.00 to 21.00 (Monday to Friday)

Check the admission lists 

An academic committee of each department assesses application and decides which candidates are admitted to the different PhD programmes. UPF publishes the admissions lists on the website:

Submit the original documents (September) 

Your final admission to the PhD programmes is subject to the verification of the original admission documents (step 3). After being admitted and before formalising registration you will need to hand in the original application documents (or validated photocopies).

This will need to be done during september 2010 before registration. More information will soon follow on where you should hand in those original application documents.

If your university qualification has been issued by a university outside the European Union and the European Economic Area and has not received homologation with a Spanish university course, check this page, as we need to validate your qualification.

Enrolment (September)

Each department will contact students in September in order to arrange a tutorial session with the PhD programme's coordinator. After this, students will need to enrol online; this usually happens during the second half of September.

You will be then informed by the department secretary on the exact the date, time and place where the academic programme will take place which is usually around 24 September.

If you have doubts on any of the steps you have to take in order to be admitted to a PhD programme, do not hesitate to contact the UPF Admissions Office:

Telephone: (+34) 93 542 15 16

admissions.doctorat@upf.edu

If you have completed all the steps, you are officially a PhD programmes's student at Pompeu Fabra University. Welcome and congratulations!