Program access information

Objectives

The main objective of the Doctoral Program in Business Administration and Management of the Universitat Politècnica de València is to train doctors in the field of Business Administration from its two main aspects, organizational and economic-financial. The aim is to train highly qualified researchers and professionals in the areas of knowledge related to Business Organization, Financial Economics and Accounting and Marketing and Market Research, as well as other areas related to business such as Applied Economics, Quantitative Methods for Economics and Business, Commercial Law, Financial and Tax Law, and more specifically those detailed in the program’s lines of research.

Entry Profile

The usual entry profile is a graduate in any degree related to the social sciences or engineering, who holds a Master’s Degree in the field of Business Management and Organization, Financial Economics and/or Accounting, Information Systems or who can demonstrate professional experience in management positions in these fields.

Profile of graduates

PhD. in Business Administration and Management

The entry profiles can be summarized as follows:

Students with an official Spanish Bachelor’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and Management and with a Master’s Degree from our Doctoral Program (Master’s Degree in Financial and Tax Management, Master’s Degree in Business, Product and Service Management): They will have passed at least 300 credits, 60 of which correspond to the Master’s Degree level. These students have acquired the necessary skills to start their doctoral thesis in the Program both at academic level and in terms of the required level of English, which is B2, as well as having completed the Master’s Thesis, which shows their research skills at Master’s level. Therefore, in this profile, it is not necessary to do Complementary Training.

2. Students with an official Spanish or foreign Bachelor’s or Bachelor’s Degree in another area but who have a Master’s Degree from our Doctoral Program (Master’s Degree in Financial and Tax Management, Master’s Degree in Management of Companies, Products and Services): They will have passed at least 300 credits, 60 of which correspond to the Master’s Degree level. Having completed one of the Masters of the Program, given the requirements of these Masters, this guarantees that these students have acquired the necessary skills to start their doctoral thesis in the Program both academically and in terms of the required level of English, which is B2, as well as having completed the Master’s Thesis that demonstrates their research skills at the Master’s level. In this profile, it is not necessary to take Complementary Training courses.

3. Students with an official Spanish or foreign Bachelor’s or Bachelor’s degree and with a Master’s degree in another official Spanish doctoral program: They will have passed at least 300 credits, 60 of them corresponding to the Master’s level. In this case, the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program will evaluate the merits provided, approving and requesting the student to take the complementary training credits or rejecting the request. The complementary training may consist of the completion of subjects of any of the Master of the Program and will include in any case the completion of a Research Project whose evaluation will be carried out in the same way as the Master’s Thesis.

4. Students in possession of a degree obtained in accordance with foreign educational systems, without the need for its homologation, after verification by the university that this accredits a level of training equivalent to that of the official Spanish Master’s Degree and that it entitles the student to access doctoral studies in the country issuing the degree. In this case, the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program will evaluate the merits provided, approving and requesting the student to take the complementary training credits or rejecting the application. The complementary training may consist of the completion of subjects of any of the Masters of the Program and will include in any case the completion of a Research Project whose evaluation will be carried out in the same way as the Master’s Thesis.

5. Students with an official Spanish Bachelor’s or Bachelor’s degree and with subjects passed in the old doctoral programs: In this case, the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program will evaluate the merits provided, approving and requesting the student to take the complementary training credits or rejecting the application. The complementary training may consist of the completion of subjects of any of the Masters of the Program and will include in any case the completion of a Research Project whose evaluation will be carried out in the same way as the Master’s Thesis.

Evaluation of the merits provided:

The Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program will evaluate the merits provided. For a student to be admitted, he/she must obtain a minimum score of 75 points out of 100. The following percentage weights will be used:

• Academic qualification = 30%.
• University Master’s Degree = 40%.
• Master’s academic record= 20%.
• Other merits = 10% Other merits = 10% Other merits = 10% Other merits = 10% Other merits = 10%

In turn, each merit will be corrected with an affinity coefficient that can be 0 if the affinity with the doctoral program is null and 1 when the entry profile is a) and therefore, the affinity is maximum.

Composition of the Program’s Academic Committee responsible for the admission process:

It is composed of the director of the ERT, the coordinator of the Doctoral Program, the directors of the two University Masters directly related to the Program, the Head of Studies of the ERT and four professors representing the main research groups present in the Program.

Admission of part-time students:

The procedure will be the same but a personal interview will be conducted in order to establish and take into account their time constraints.

Admission of students with disabilities:

The procedure is the same as in the general case, but a personal interview will be conducted in order to evaluate the specific educational needs that the disability generates and, if possible, to implement them in the case of admission to the Doctoral Program.

Procedure:

The applicant pre-registers for a Doctoral program through the Internet, indicating his or her personal data and the studies he or she has completed.

Deadline:

Pre-registration for the training period must be made within the ordinary deadlines approved by the University for each academic year.

Documentation:

The documentation necessary for the analysis of the application that cannot be checked directly in the UPV databases, will be saved directly by the interested party in electronic format (pdf).

Resolution:

The Doctoral Academic Committee will personally communicate to each student whether or not he/she has been provisionally admitted. Admission is provisional since the student must be accepted by a professor who will supervise the thesis.

The Academic Committee of the Program, after studying the curriculum of the doctoral student, will decide whether it is appropriate for him/her to take complementary training courses. Where appropriate, it will define the list of subjects to be taken from the university’s postgraduate academic offer, considering the specific training required by the doctoral student for the proper development of his or her research work.

The subjects that constitute the training complements in the defined admission profiles will be mostly subjects of the Master’s Degree of the PhD Program, whose completion and passing imply the acquisition by the student of the necessary competences to be able to start the Thesis. The evaluation is carried out by the professor of each subject and this evaluation will be taken into account by the Academic Committee in order to consider the training complements as passed or not.

Likewise, in the event that a Research Project must be carried out, it will be subject to the same requirements and demands as the Final Master’s Thesis of any of the Master’s Degrees of the Program. The evaluation of the thesis will be the same as that of the dissertation, consisting of a Tribunal composed of three professors, two of whom are experts in the field in which the dissertation is developed and appointed by the Academic Committee of the Master. The third member is proposed by the student’s tutor.

Basics

• Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of research skills and methods related to that field.
• Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial process of research or creation.
• Ability to contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
• Ability to critically analyze, evaluate and synthesize new and complex ideas.
• Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.
• Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.

Personal skills and abilities

• To develop in contexts where there is little specific information.
• Find the key questions to be answered to solve a complex problem.
• Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
• Work both in a team and autonomously in an international or multidisciplinary context.
• Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and make judgments with limited information.
• Intellectual criticism and defense of solutions.

Other competencies

• To offer society a number of people capable of elaborating, evaluating and/or criticizing new scientific research proposals in the area of business administration and management.
• To train researchers who can transfer to society in a developed and applicable way the results of their scientific research in the area of business administration and management.