Enrollment validation

Upon completion and payment of your enrollment, the Doctoral School will get in touch with you and set an appointment to provide the original documents to have your enrollment validated in compliance with the access requirements to Ph.D.

Documents

According to your previous studies, the documents to be submitted are listed below: 

1. If you have taken an official Master's degree at UC3M, you are not required to submit any documents. The Doctoral School will check your records accordingly.

2. If your access degree for Ph.D. was issued by a University from Spain or a European Union country, or a state of the European Economic Area or Switzerland, it is required to provide the following original documents: 

• Access degree certificate for Ph.D. (Master's degree or equivalent) or payment receipt of issuance fees.
• Grades certificate of access degree to Ph.D. (Master's degree or equivalent).

3. If your access degree for Ph.D. was issued by a University from a country other than the ones indicated above, it is required to provide the following legalized documents:

• Access degree certificate for Ph.D. (Master's degree or equivalent) or payment receipt of issuance fees.
• Grades certificate of access degree to Ph.D. (Master's degree or equivalent).

There are different ways to have your documents legalized. Find which legalization procedure applies in your case:  Legalization of Foreign Degrees

Please note that the legalization procedure must be carried out from the home country. It is strongly recommended to do it in advance. 

Submission procedure

Original hard copies of the documents must be provided along with their photocopies. The Doctoral School will check both originals and their copies and have them certified. If the degree certificates and documents have an electronic signature or digital certification (with safe verification codes), these will be submitted by e-mail at admisiondoctorado@uc3m.es

Language of the documents

All documents must be submitted in Spanish, English, French, Italian or Portuguese. Certificates and degrees provided in other languages must be accompanied by an official Spanish translation: Translation of documents into Spanish | Jury Translators

Submission period

To be notified by e-mail within a month after the end of the enrollment period.