- Instructions for application
- Documentation to be submitted
- Resolution
- Notification and publication
- Claim term
- Enrolment
Applicants holding the general admission requirements and the specific admission requirements of the Doctoral Program can do the pre-registration request for Doctoral Studies Programme.
Pre-registration request must be done through the on-line form accessible in the tab Online Application from 25th April 2024 at 10:00 (Spanish time).
Students can do only one application, in which they will be able to choose a maximum of three options among the different Doctoral Programmes.
Students who will complete the studies required to be eligible for admission to a doctoral programme during the current academic year may pre-enrol even if they have not completed such studies at the time of submitting their application. Successful applicants may be admitted and enrol conditionally subject to compliance with the requirements before 30 November at 11.59 p.m (Spanish time). Failure to provide evidence of compliance of admission requirements within the deadline set will result in their enrolment being automatically cancelled.
Documents must be submitted in digital format, in the pre-registration application. The student is responsible of authenticity of the provided documents.
Original copies are not requested, except in the case that there are doubts about their authenticity.
In this case, the University will ask to the student the presentation of evidence by the comparison of the copies or, if it is opportune, the original documents.
The documents which must be attached in the application are:
a) Photocopy of the ID (Spanish citizens), NIE (residents in Spain) or Passport (foreign citizens) all of them valid. If the previous official higher studies have been carried out at the Universitat de València, it will not be necessary to provide this documentation.
b) Official University Degree (as the case may be)
- Degree and master’s degree certificates (Article 6.1 Royal Decree 576/2023).
- Licenciado qualification (former Spanish undergraduate degree) (Governing Council agreement 24/06/2014).
- Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (Tertiary Education Diploma) obtained according to the provisions of the Royal Decree 77/1998, 30 April, or to have reached the research proficiency regulated by the Royal Decree 185/1985, 23 January.
- Certificate of a Positive Assessment in 2 courses for specialised healthcare training.
- Former Doctoral certificates according to former regulations (Former Doctoral programme certification).
If the admission is by means of an official master's degree, the master's degree and the degree of the previous official university studies must be provided.
If the degrees are obtained at universities in states that are neither European Union members nor signatories to the European Economic Agreement or a bilateral agreement with the European Union, the degree must be duly legalised or apostilled and, as the case may be, accompanied by an official translation (see admission requirements for foreign graduates).
In addition, in the case of official degrees obtained at universities in states outside the European Higher Education Area, it will be necessary to present the degree's homologation credential from the Spanish Ministry of Education. If the degree has not been homologated, the applicant will have to pay, at the time of pre-enrolment, the corresponding fee for the equivalence study of his/her degree. The study of the equivalence of degrees is subject to an administrative fee payable at the time of electronic pre-registration for the doctorate. (See the annual Decree of the Government of the Generalitat Valenciana which sets the fees for the provision of university academic services). If the pre-enrolment for the doctorate has already been made in previous years and the corresponding equivalence decision has been obtained, the fee will be waived.
c) Official Academic Certificates. Certificates corresponding to the master's degree and to the previous official studies (Bachelor's degree, etc.).
Foreign students must submit the official transcript or records legalised or apostilled and, if it is the case, with the official translation. Besides, they must submit the document with the average grade calculated according the procedure established by the Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional.
More information about the procedure here.
If the student provides the official university dregree but not the academic certificate with averagre grade and its conversion, or the grades are not legalized, the average grade which will be taken into account is a 5 (pass) in a scale from 0 to 10.
d) If the Master's degree is from outside the EHEA, a certificate issued by the home university indicating that these studies provide access to a doctorate in that country (Certificate Template). However, for countries within the EHEA, a certificate issued by the home university may be required if there are reasonable doubts about its authenticity.
e) Specific Documentation Doctorate in Physiology
IMPORTANT: applications will not be accepted if they do not include the specific documentation, duly completed and with the corresponding attachments.
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CV of the student.
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Draft research plan COMPLETED and in the CORRECT FORMAT, with the corresponding attached documents:
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Information about the student.
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Line and Theme of research, from those included in the Programme.
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Title of the thesis project.
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Tutor, must be a doctoral lecturer in the UV Department of Physiology
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Supervisors. Fill in all the required information. The co-supervision must be justified. Consult the Requirements for doctoral thesis supervisors and the documentation to be submitted.
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Place of completion of the thesis. If this place is external to the UV Physiology Department, please indicate it and attach a Letter of authorisation from the Head of the Service (with letterhead, date and signature) accepting the student for the completion of their doctoral thesis.
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Dedication (full or part-time). If applying on a part-time basis, attach documentary evidence of work, family obligations...
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Abstract, Objectives, Methodology and Basic Bibliography. Recommended space: 2 to 3 pages.
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Funding, by stating the reference of the project to which the position is to be attached and the LR of the project, who must be the tutor or one of the supervisors. If not, state that it will be financed from the research funds of the thesis supervisors.
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Ethical considerations. Attach a favourable report from the Centre's Ethics Committee, if available. If not, indicate the reference of the Application. If it has not yet been applied for, indicate that it will be applied for. It must be included in the research plan at the end of the first year of studies at the latest. The title of the favourable report must match the title of the thesis. If this is not the case, but the report CLEARLY covers all the research and the contents of the doctoral thesis, you must attach the document “Concordancia título tesis_Comite de Etica” or “Concordancia tesis_procedimiento exp.animal DG.AGP.GVA”, as the case may be. If not, inform the Ethics Committee and submit the Committee's assessment. The Universitat de València has an Ethics Committee to which you can submit your doctoral thesis project for evaluation if it is carried out there: https://www.uv.es/ethical-commission-experimental-research/en/ethics-committee-experimental-research.html
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Justification of co-supervision. In the case of co-supervision, clearly indicate the academic reasons that justify the need for each supervisor, detailing the specific and distinctive participation of each supervisor in the supervision of the thesis.
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Intention of thesis with international mention. (Requirements and regulations).
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Date and all electronic signatures.
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f) Justification of part-time dedication (work justification, family obligations...): if the chosen dedication is full-time, the student must not submit any document.
g) Motivation letter
h) In case of disability, copy of the certificate issued by the assessment unit of the Autonomous Community.
i) Other documents
Once the deadline for submitting the pre-registration application forms have finished, the Academic Phd Committee (Cad) of each Phd’s will evaluate the application forms according to the entry criteria of each Phd’s.
The places offered will be allocated according to the result of the evaluation of the pre-registration application form and of the priority order indicated by the student in the application form.
If the interested part has applied for more than one doctoral programme, the prioritisation of options made at the time of application is binding. Thus, if the applicant has been favourably rated in more than one programme, admission will be to the one he or she has selected as preferential.
The award results will be communicated to students electronically.
Each student may only be admitted to one PhD program and may be placed on the waiting list for multiple programs to which they have applied with higher priority.
Admitted applications and waitlisted applications can be found in the following sections.
- Awards as of September 19, 2025
List of Admitted Applications
List of Waitlisted Applications
- Results of the First Waitlist Call on October 3, 2025
List of Admitted Applications
-Awards as of October 31, 2025 - Extraordinary Phase
List of Admitted Applications
List of Waitlisted Applications
- Results of the First Waitlist Call on November 11, 2025 - Extraordinary Phase
List of Admitted Applications
After the notification and publication of the pre-registration results on September 19, complaints may be filed with the corresponding Academic Committee of each doctoral program on September 19, 20, and 21. After these dates, no complaints will be accepted.
During the extraordinary phase, publication will be on October 31, and complaints may be filed with the corresponding Academic Committee of each doctoral program on October 31 and November 1 and 2.
Only the students who are “admitted” may enrol in the established deadline. You can check the enrolment process here.
