Admission to the doctoral programme in Communication begins with pre-registration and the presentation of candidacy in one of the two annual calls (usually January/February and March/April). It is recommended to contact the research group closest to the project you want to develop before pre-registering.

Each candidate must present a research proposal, which will be evaluated by the Doctoral Academic Committee (CAD) with the rest of the documentation provided (academic transcript and letters of recommendation).

If selected, the candidate must enrol in the corresponding doctoral programme.

Entrance profile

  • Number of places: 30

The PhD in Communication is aimed at all students who, regardless of their basic training, want to specialize in communication research. The recommended entrance profile includes the following features:

  • The thesis proposal is linked to the preferred research lines of the Department's research groups.
  • Inter- or trans-disciplinary training.
  • Minimum English level: B2.
  • High oral and written communication skills.
  • Intellectual curiosity, autonomy in learning, ability to work in groups and capacity for analytical thinking.

Access to the pre-registration page

 

Assessment criteria

The candidate must submit a research proposal following the model approved by CAD. The Committee will evaluate the candidacies based on the following criteria:

  1. Academic Transcript: 40%
  2. Research proposal (model): 50%
    • Links with the Communication Department's research lines: 20%
    • Quality of the proposal (objectives, state of the question, method): 20%
    • Excellence of the proposal: 5%
    • Have a scholarship to develop the proposal presented in the report: 5%
  3. Letters of recommendation: 10%

Once CAD has evaluated the proposals, the results can be consulted through the pre-registration platform.

Once accepted into the programme, the student must formalize their enrolment in the doctoral programme each year and pay the corresponding public prices within the period established by the University. It is also necessary to formalize the enrolment for academic tutoring in the year in which the doctoral thesis is submitted. The registration period is from 1 to 5 October.

Before this date, the original documentation for entering the programme must be submitted to the secretary (15-30 September).