Economics and Business: Welfare and Internationalization (UNED and Nebrija)

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.

• Profile 1. In general, admission to the doctoral program will require having completed a Bachelor's degree in Economics or Business Administration (or one of the more specialized bachelor's degrees into which these studies have been divided, such as, for example, a bachelor's degree in Marketing, in Finance or Accounting, among others), in addition to having completed research master's studies in Business Economics or Economics.
• Profile 2. Students that may also be considered for admission are those who have completed a Bachelor's degree in Economics or Business Administration plus a master's degree in Business Economics or Economics with a professional profile, and must complete complementary training.
• Profile 3. Likewise, students that may also be considered for admission are those whose bachelor's degree does not correspond to those mentioned above, but do have a research master's degree in Business Economics or in Economics, and must take complementary training.

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.

Pursuant to Royal Decree 576/2023, dated July 4, amending Article 6 of Royal Decree 99/2011, issued on January 28, which governs official doctoral studies, candidates are generally required to possess an official Spanish Bachelor's Degree, or its equivalent, and a Master’s Degree to gain admission to an official doctoral program. Additionally, admission is granted to individuals who meet any of the specified exceptional criteria:

• a) Candidates must either hold an official Spanish university degree, or an equivalent degree, having earned at least 300 ECTS credits and attained Level 3 of the Spanish Framework of Qualifications for Higher Education.
• b) Individuals with degrees from foreign educational systems within the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), without the need for official approval, and that accredit a Level 7 of the European Qualifications Framework, provided the degree allows for doctoral study in the country of issuance. It should be noted that admission under this criterion does not equate to homologation of the applicant’s prior degree, nor its acknowledgment for any purposes beyond entry into doctoral education.
• c) Candidates with a degree from foreign educational systems outside of the EHEA can also be considered for admission without the need for formal approval. The university will verify that the degree certifies a level of education equivalent to an official Spanish university Master’s degree and allows for doctoral studies in the country where the degree was issued. Admission in this category does not constitute homologation or recognition of the prior degree for any purposes beyond doctoral education.
• d) Individuals with an additional Doctorate degree.
• e) Additionally, university graduates who have secured a position in specialized health training and have successfully completed at least two years in a program to obtain an official degree in any of the Health Sciences specialties are considered eligible for doctoral studies.

The following scale is established for admission to the doctoral program in Economics and Business:

• Academic record of the Bachelor's degree that grants access to the doctoral program 30%.
• Academic record of the master's degree that grants access to the doctoral program 40%.
• Letters of introduction from university professors or other research institutions, who have direct knowledge of the skill and competence of the applicant (5%)
• Research experience or other merits related to research (20%)
• Accredited knowledge of a foreign language commonly used in the scientific community to which the doctoral program belongs (5%). Language certification will be evaluated starting at a B2 level of the European Framework of Languages.

The academic commission of the degree is responsible for the admission procedure.

• Completed and signed application form
• Updated Curriculum Vitae
• Certified copy of the Bachelor's (or undergraduate) diploma * **
• Certified copy of the official Master's diploma * **
• Academic transcript (or similar) **
• Academic transcript (or Bachelor's degree) **
• Certified copy of the certificate from the home university confirming eligibility for doctoral studies in the applicant's country based on the obtained diploma (for foreign students).
• Photocopy of ID card (for Spanish nationals) or passport (for foreigners)
• A PDF copy of the Master's Final Project (TFM) or Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) (if applicable)
• Proof of employment (if applying for part-time admission)
• A recommendation from a potential thesis director or a draft thesis project containing Objectives (and/or Research Questions) / Methodology / Expected Results

* For non-European diplomas: "apostille" on documents issued by countries that have signed the Hague Convention or diplomatic legalization for other cases.
** If the documents are not in Spanish or English, they must be accompanied by the corresponding sworn official translation.

Send the application with all documentation by email to escueladoctorado@nebrija.es

• September 1 – October 15
  Please email your completed and signed admission application, along with the required program documentation. Refer to the "Application" section on our website for more details.
• October 21
  You will receive an email notification about the provisional decision regarding the admission to the doctorate program.
• October 22 – 24
  A three-day period will be provided, starting from the date of the provisional admission notification, for you to submit any claims via email.
• Until October 25
  All claims will be resolved.
  An email notification will be sent out with the final list of admitted applicants.
• October 21 – November 8
  If you are admitted, please mail the completed and signed application, along with the previously sent documentation, to the following address:
  
  Universidad Nebrija – Escuela de Doctorado
  Campus de La Berzosa
  28240 Hoyo de Manzanares (Madrid).

Please note, if the required documentation is not provided within the specified period, the Doctoral School will cancel your enrollment application.

• October 21 – November 22
  You can self-enroll through the Universitas XXI application.
  Please email the proof of payment for the registration fees and annual tuition fees for the doctorate program to admincp@nebrija.es and escueladoctorado@nebrija.es.
  Students who are admitted but fail to enroll within the period specified by the Doctoral School will forfeit their place in the program.

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.

• Procedures and assignment of tutor and thesis director
• Commitment

In each academic year, until the presentation of the thesis, the student must renew the enrollment during the established period.

• In the first year, the doctoral student must pay the registration fees and the annual tutelage fees::
  • Full time: €450 Registration Fees and €1100 annual tutelage fees
  • Part-time: €980 Registration Fees and €570 annual tutelage fees.
• From the second year, and until the end of the thesis, the student should pay the annual tutelage fees, full time €1,100, or part time €570
• In order to present their thesis, the doctoral student must pay the thesis deposit: €1,600.
• Issuance of the doctor's diploma: 311€
• Partial exemptions from doctorate fees can also be requested annually from the Doctoral Committee for doctoral students who actively collaborate in Nebrija research groups, among others.