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The program brings together a teaching staff of 22 researchers with a marked international profile around two areas:
The objectives of the program, and its commitments to doctoral students, are:
The criteria for accessing the Doctoral program are detailed in the following section, and are established by law for this purpose. Therefore, any candidate who meets these criteria would have legal access to the program.
The recommended academic profile for students who want to access this Doctoral Program in Economics and Business: Welfare and Internationalization requires knowledge of economics, business administration and quantitative and qualitative methods equivalent to postgraduate studies.
Students who do not meet the recommended academic profile and come from master's degrees that are not specialized in Economics and Business, must take specific complementary courses defined in the corresponding section. For those students who have completed master's degrees in the field of Engineering and Architecture, the Academic Committee will determine the necessary complementary courses from among those indicated in the corresponding section.
Regarding skills, the recommended admission profile refers us to students capable of understanding and solving problems in the field of companies and organizations, and evaluating the behavior of economic agents in this sector of activity. Likewise, knowledge in microeconomics, macroeconomics, labor market, data analysis and quantitative techniques will be very useful for the completion of the program.
Students must accredit a minimum B2 level of knowledge of English in the common European framework of reference for languages, which allows them to perfectly understand the ideas expressed in scientific articles, interact with native speakers with a sufficient degree of fluency and naturalness, and produce scientific texts. Likewise, non-Spanish speaking students must accredit, at least, the same level (B2) of Spanish.
In general, to access an official doctoral program it will be necessary to have official Spanish Bachelor's degrees -or its equivalent- and Master's degrees. Likewise, those who are in any of the following cases may also be admitted:
The following scale is established for admission to the doctoral program in Economics and Business:
* In the case of non-European diplomas: "apostille" in documents issued in countries that have signed the Hague Convention, or legalization through diplomatic channels, in other cases.
** If the documentation has not been issued in Spanish, it must be accompanied by the corresponding official sworn translation.
Send the application with all the documentation by email to [email protected]
Provisional resolution admission 2021-22
Send the completed admission application and claims to [email protected]
Universidad Nebrija – Escuela de Doctorado
Campus de La Berzosa
28240 Hoyo de Manzanares (Madrid).
Doctoral Programs | AMOUNT ECTS/TOTAL 21-22 | Complementary Courses (6 ECTS) | Complementary Courses (12 ECTS) | Complementary Courses (18 ECTS) |
Interuniversity Doctorate in Economics and Business | 175,08 € | 1050,50 € | 2.101,00 € | 3.151,50 € |
Students who access the doctoral program from master's degrees that grant direct access will not need to take any type of complementary courses, unless they wish to take them voluntarily.
In the event that the student lacks the complete prior training required in the program, after admission and enrollment, it will be necessary for them to take specific and complementary courses. In this way, the program's Academic Committee, in accordance with the degree of admission, must decide, following a report from the tutor, which complementary courses are appropriate for each student; subjects from Official Master's degrees that grant direct admission to this Doctoral Program may be used for this. In any case, these complementary courses will be mandatory for students who access the program having only a bachelor's degree of 300 ECTS credits or more, which does not include research credits in its curriculum.
In order for the complementary courses to be suitable and consistent with the admission profile, the scientific field and the objectives of the program, the offer of subjects to be taken as complementary courses must meet the needs of the program and will correspond to the following specific fields of knowledge.
In the case of requiring complementary courses, the UNED offers the Research Master's Degree in Economics, in which suitable subjects can be provided for students who choose either of the two lines of research offered. This program offers standard compulsory subjects and six different specialization lines: Industrial and Services Economics, Monetary and Financial Economics, Public Economics, International Economics, Quantitative Economics and Business Economics. Within the list of subjects, it is worth highlighting Statistical Methods, Computer Tools for Research in Economics, and Microeconometrics, which would be suitable for some students who require complementary courses.
As each university deals with specific training activities within these areas, the contents, competences, objectives and evaluation will be those that appear in the teaching guide of the corresponding subject.
Completion of these complementary courses will be simultaneous to enrollment in academic tutorship in the program. In this case, students must enroll in these complementary courses and, in addition, formalize the enrollment of academic tutorship in the program. However, the complementary courses must be passed in the first year of enrollment. If this is not done, the student will be dropped from the program.
For the purpose of providing these complementary courses, the universities in the program will offer the subjects in accordance with the indicated contents (up to a maximum of 18 credits), based on the bachelor's degrees and official master's degrees, in order to cover the educational aspects that allow students to follow the Doctoral Program.
Royal Decree 99/2011 introduces the obligation to assign a tutor to the doctoral student. As indicated in the "Salzburg Principles", supervision of doctoral students plays a crucial role. For this reason, once enrollment has been completed, the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program will assign a tutor, who will be the person to guide the doctoral student during the entire period of the doctoral program.
It will be a PhD professor with accredited research experience, with permanent or temporary connections with the doctoral program. In general, the Tutor will have the following functions: (i) ensuring the interaction of the doctoral student with the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program and, jointly, with the thesis Director; (ii) ensuring that the doctoral student's training and research activity are in accordance with the Program lines and (iii) guiding the doctoral student in the program's teaching and research activities.
The tutor, apart from introducing the doctoral student to all the initial procedures to be carried out, will help him/her identify a possible thesis director.
Within a maximum period of three months from enrollment, the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program will assign each doctoral student a Thesis Director, who may or may not coincide with the tutor referred to in the previous section. The Thesis Director will be ultimately responsible for the coherence and suitability of the training activities, the impact and novelty in their field, the subject of the thesis and the planning and adaptation, where appropriate, to other projects and activities in which the doctoral student is enrolled.
In each academic year, until the presentation of the thesis, the student must renew the enrollment during the established period.
The lines and sublines of research are structured according to two main axes, which are broken down as follows:
Doctoral students (both TP and TC) will have to complete 74 hours of training, of which 14 hours will be transversal training (common to all doctoral students at universities) and 60 hours of specific training (of the Doctoral program in Economy and Business).
All activities are compulsory except for the mobility activity, which is optional, and transversal in nature. This activity may be carried out throughout the entire Doctorate program up to a total of 720 hours.
Educational activities calendar:
Date | Name of the training activity | Speaker | Transversal / Specific | Hours | Cuorse |
* | Ethics in research and academic honesty |
* | Transversal | 6h | 1º TC/ 1º TP |
* | Introductory seminar |
* | Transversal | 4h | 1ºTC/ 1ºTC |
Management of information bases in economics and business |
Específica | 12 | 1ª TC/ 1º TP |
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How to Get Published in an Academic Journal |
Específica | 12 | 1º TC/ 2º TP | ||
/ Specific training seminar |
Específica | Hasta un total de 12h | 1º TC/ 2º TP | ||
Date | Name of the training activity | Speaker | Transversal / Specific | Hours | Cuorse |
* | Dissemination of research results |
* | Transversal | 4h | 2º TC/ 2º TP |
Specific training seminar 2 |
Específica | Hasta un total de 12h | 2º TC/ 3º TP | ||
Date | Name of the training activity | Speaker | Transversal / Specific | Hours | Cuorse |
Specific training seminar 3 |
Específica | Hasta un total de 12h | 3º TC/ 4 TP |
* See the Transversal activities calendar
In recent years, the experience of doctoral students with a profile in applied economics shows that most graduates of these programs diversify their careers between continuing in academia and working in different areas of public administration. In the first place, a large number of these graduates that consider some of the proposals of our program are currently employed as professors and researchers in different research centers and universities in Spain and abroad.
Second, a large number of graduates of doctoral programs in public policy evaluation methods are working in different areas of public administration (Ministries, AIREF, etc.) and national and international, public and private organizations (World Bank, European Union, Central Banks in different countries, etc.), mainly in research, but also in management roles.
The Interuniversity Doctoral Program in Economics and Business: Welfare and Internationalization provides its students with a solid background in economic and social research, in areas of great relevance, such as labor markets, education, welfare, the economic environment, internationalization of companies and the evaluation of risks and policies. The program's doctoral students will benefit from skills that will allow them to combine theory with data analysis, in order to extract relevant decisions from the point of view of public policy or private strategy. Studying in this program, therefore, is the first step of an academic career or a professional life in government departments, international organizations and statistical institutions. Some examples of careers in international organizations that request specialties related to our program can be found at www.oecd.org/careers/, iadbcareers.referrals.selectminds.com/latest-jobs and worldbankgroup.csod.com/ats/careersite/.