Doctoral Programme in Law, Political Science and Criminology

• Summary
• Structure
• Organisation
• Competencies
• Admission
• Research lines
• Labour insertion
• International
• Quality

• Specific admission requirements
• Selection criteria

Number of places: The Faculty of Law offers 50 new admission places each year. Of these, 20 are full-time and 30 are part-time.

General access requirements: RD 99/2011, 28th January, which regulates official doctoral studies.

Specific admission requirements for the program:

• Hold a university master's degree in the field of Law, Political and Administrative Sciences, or Criminology. In the case of holding the Diploma of Advanced Studies or having obtained the Research Proficiency, these must have been obtained in Doctoral Programs related to this one in terms of content.

• Applicants may also be admitted if they have completed undergraduate or bachelor's studies in Law, Political and Administrative Sciences, or Criminology and hold a master’s degree or meet the legal access requirements; if they hold a master's degree in Social Sciences provided it is related to one of the doctoral research lines (the same applies to those with the DEA or Research Proficiency from those same fields); and professionals or researchers from the legal field, Public Administration, Criminology or Political Science, regardless of their previous university specialization, when there is curricular affinity with the objectives and research lines of the doctoral program, and provided they meet the legal requirements for higher university qualifications.

• Spoken and written command of at least one of the two official languages of the Valencian Community (Catalan and Spanish) at a B2 level.

Ideal profiles:

1. Students with a master’s degree in Law, Political Science, or Criminology, completed in its research-oriented track, and that provides skills and knowledge in one of the program's research lines.

2. Students who have completed a minimum of 300 ECTS credits in official university studies, of which at least 60 must be from a master’s degree in the aforementioned areas, and at least 10 of those credits must correspond to courses in methodology and introduction to research in social and legal sciences.

Other admissible profiles:

1. Students who have completed a bachelor’s or undergraduate degree in Law, Political Science or Criminology and a master’s degree in the same fields in a non-research-oriented track or in a different area; in this case, they must take the training supplements established by the doctoral program:
   52399 Research Methodology in Law, Political Science and Criminology

2. Professionals or researchers from Public Administration and linked to the legal field, Criminology or Political Science, regardless of previous university specialization, provided they meet the following:

   • They are career public servants in professional group A or, in a comparable professional category, are public employees of Local Entities or governed by their own specific legislation (Arts. 2, 3 and 4 of the Revised Text of the Basic Statute of Public Employees).

   • Regardless of the qualification used to access their position, the position can be accessed with any of the three degrees covered by the doctoral program (Law, Political Science and Criminology).

   • They meet the legal requirements for higher university qualifications and, in the opinion of the Doctoral Coordination Committee, there is curricular affinity with the program’s objectives and research lines. This affinity will be assessed by the Committee.

Specific documents for the doctoral program:
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• Preferred research line(s) form
• Curriculum vitae, justifying the evaluation criteria stated in the admission scoring system. (Program form required)
• Motivation letter