Admission criteria

  • Curriculum Vitae (In the case of students whose mother tongue is not Spanish, certificate of the level of Spanish with which they access the PD).
  • Motivation letter expressing the reasons why you want to study this Doctoral Programme and your interests in carrying out the doctoral thesis.
  • Brief report on the research project to be carried out within the PD.
  • Thesis endorsement document signed by the supervisor of the thesis, in which he/she guarantees his/her availability for that direction (access to the document). The supervisor must be a PhD with accredited research experience. To justify this requirement must also be provided, if applicable, the document of supervision with recognized six-year research periods (access to the document) or without recognized six-year research periods (access to the document).

Students will be selected on the basis of the following assessment criteria:

  • Applicants with degrees in Philosophy will be selected first and then, in that order, graduates in other related areas and graduates in other humanities degrees. Within each group, the following table will be applied:
    • Record: 55%.
    • Specific training and research experience in the fields of philosophy: 20%.
    • Memory: 15%.
    • Other merits: 10%.