• Summary
• Structure
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• Admission
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• Specific admission requirements
• Selection criteria

General entry requirements: Applicants should be contemplated in some of the presumptions of the article 6 of the RD 99/2011 or of the second additional provision of such Royal Decree.
SPECIFIC ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: Those students meeting the general entry requirements previously mentioned shall be admitted in the Doctoral Programme in Specific Didactics if they meet any of the following requirements (RE1 to RE4), and also all the RE5 and RE6 requirements, always referred to the specific didactics in which the student wishes to specialize.
RE 1 (Ideal entry profile). To hold the University Master’s degree in Research in Specific Didactics from the University of Valencia (General Studies) or to hold an official master’s degree from other Spanish university which provides a research training equivalent to the previous one.
RE 2 (Ideal entry profile). To hold the Diploma d'Estudis Avançats (DEA-a tertiary education degree)- according to the Royal Decree 778/98– or the Research Proficiency -under the regulations of the Royal Decree 185/85– obtained in a programme specialised in the corresponding specific didactics.
RE 3 (Ideal entry profile). To hold an official postgraduate degree of research nature from any country belonging or foreign to the EHEA which provides an equivalent training to the mentioned Master’s in the RE1 requirement and which enables in the issuing country for accessing to doctoral studies.
RE 4 (Ideal entry profile). To hold an official master’s degree of research nature, of DEA, Research Proficiency or of any official postgraduate degree in a country belonging or foreign to the EHEA which enables in the issuing country for accessing to doctoral studies different from those mentioned in the RE1 to RE3 requirements. Applicants with this profile should submit documentation which justifies undergraduate disciplinary knowledge needed to develop the research activities of the specific teaching chosen. The CAD will examine individually each entry application form and will assess the need for each applicant to course certain specific research training supplements in the Master’s degree in Research in Specific Didactics of the University of Valencia.
RE 5 (requirement for all entry profiles). Submit a written proposal for research topic, likely to become a doctoral thesis project, in which research goals or hypotheses are specified, relevant publications related to the proposed topic are mentioned, an appropriate theoretical framework is defined and a research methodology is outlined.
RE 6 (requirement for all entry profiles). To hold a reading comprehension level in English equivalent to that required for the B1 level. Applicants who do not hold any certificate or diploma proving the B1 level or higher in English, may perform an internal test of the doctoral programme to meet this requirement.