Admission criteria
Profile for admission
The following profiles are recommended:
A) Degrees in Computer Engineering and Master’s Degrees in: Advanced Computer Systems, Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems, or similar.
B) University Graduates, Degree-holders, Engineers or Graduates in similar courses with IT training who have studied official university Master’s Degrees that are comparable in content and level to those mentioned in any of the fields of Computer Engineering.
C) Graduates who have completed studies in Scientific-Technical, Health and Humanities areas, whose IT and mathematics knowledge are sufficient to be able to complete a doctorate of this kind. In this case, they will be required to complete additional training.
In all cases, candidates will need to have sufficient spoken and written English, as this is the working language for scientific knowledge transmission.
Foreign students must prove their fluency in any of the languages used in the programme.
Entry profiles a) and b) do not require any supplementary training.Students with entry profile c) will complete a set of supplementary training courses totalling between 3 and 24 credits. The Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program will decide on the appropriate training plan for each applicant, taking into account his or her previous training area:-Scientific-technical area. The supplementary training will amount to a maximum of 9 ECTS credits and will have a methodological nature. It will correspond to the following subjects: Research Methodology and Techniques and Data Exploration and Analysis.-Health sciences area. The supplementary training will amount to a maximum of 18 ECTS credits and will have a methodological and educational nature. It will correspond to the following subjects: Research Methodology and Techniques, Data Exploration and Analysis, Mathematical and Statistical Software, Web Search and Intelligent Systems for Specific Domains.-Humanities area. The supplementary training will amount to a maximum of 24 ECTS credits and will have a methodological and educational nature. It will correspond to the following subjects: Research Methodology and Techniques, Data Exploration and Analysis, Mathematical and Statistical Software, Web Search, Intelligent Systems for Specific Domains, Automatic Reasoning and Semantic Web.
In addition to the conditions that may be established in the future by the University's Doctoral Management Regulations, candidates are required to attach with their application a Curriculum Vitae including: - Academic records of the studies completed (Master's degree, Bachelor's degree or equivalent, if applicable). - Research and professional experience - Proof of English language proficiency- Descriptive document of the applicant's motivations for taking the PhD programme, his/her possible research interests and expected time commitment. This document must include the research group that has been contacted in order to develop the research work associated with the doctoral thesis. - A letter signed by a doctor from the doctoral programme in which he/she undertakes to supervise the candidate's doctoral thesis in the event of his/her admission to the programme. - At least one letter of recommendation. - Other credits
Spanish
Basque
English
Procedure for assigning a faculty member as a doctoral thesis tutor and director
Once a student has been accepted onto the doctoral programme, the Academic Commission will assign them a tutor from among the faculty at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) participating in the programme, who will then be responsible for ensuring good interaction with the Academic Commission and adapting the training and research activities to the principles established by the programme and the Doctorate School.
Within three months of enrolment, the Academic Commission will assign each student a thesis director from among the faculty participating in the programme. The director may or may or not be the same person as the tutor, and will be responsible for guiding and ensuring the consistency of the training and research tasks, and guaranteeing that the topic of the thesis have an impact and make a novel contribution to the field. They are also responsible for guiding the thesis plan and adapting it, if required, to other projects and activities in which the PhD student is involved.
If the director is not a member of the faculty at the UPV/EHU, the tutor will act as a liaison.
Doctoral theses may also be co-directed, and the second co-director may or may not be a member of the DP. New tutors or directors may be assigned at any moment during the thesis.
For more information, see the procedures and rules.