Perfil de ingreso y criterios de admisión Doctorado en Envejecimiento y Fragilidad

In accordance with Article 6 of the RD 99/2011 of 28 January, regulating official doctorate studies programmes:

  1. In general, applicants must have an official Spanish Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) and a Master’s degree, which must reach a total of at least 300 ECTS credits.
  2. In addition, students who are in any of the following cases may also access doctoral programmes:
    1. Have an official Spanish university degree, or that of another country belonging to the European Higher Education Area, giving access to a Master’s degree programme in accordance with the provisions of Article 16 of the RD 1393/2007 of 29 October, and have passed a minimum of 300 ECTS credits of official university studies, of which at least 60 must be at Master's degree level.
    2. Have an official Spanish Graduate Diploma consisting of at least 300 ECTS, as established by EU law. These graduates must compulsorily complete the training supplements referred to in article 7.2 of that regulation, unless the syllabus of the corresponding degree included credits in research training that are equivalent in training value to the research credits in master’s degree programmes.
    3. University graduates who, after obtaining a training place in the corresponding exam to access specialised health training, have successfully passed at least two years training in a programme to obtain the official qualification of one of the specialities in Health Sciences.
    4. Have a qualification obtained in accordance with foreign education systems, it need not be officially recognised, the university will verify that it accredits a training level equivalent to that of the official Spanish Master's degree and gives access to doctoral studies in the country where it was issued. This admission does not imply, in any case, the official homologation of a student’s previous degrees nor its recognition for purposes others than accessing doctoral studies.
    5. Be in possession of another Spanish title of doctor obtained according to previous university regulations.
    6. Applicants who hold an official degree according to the MECES 3 level (Spanish Qualifications Framework for Higher Education) subject to the Royal Decree  967/2014, of 21 November, establishing the requirements and procedure for the official recognition and declaration of equivalence to degrees and at official university level and for the validation of foreign Higher Education studies, as well as the procedure for determining the correspondence to the levels of the Spanish Framework of Qualifications for Higher Education of the official qulaifications of Architect, Engineer, Graduates, Technical Architect, Technical Engineer.

Applicant profile

  1. Students holding a Bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences of more than 5 years.
  2. Students holding a Bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences or Experimental Sciences of less than 5 years with an Official University Master’s degree including 20 research credits.
  3. Students holding a Bachelor’s degree in Social and Legal Sciences with an Official University Master’s degree including 20 research credits.

It is important that candidates seeking to be admitted onto the programme have a vocation towards developing a research career and have previously taken part in research activities during their studies prior to the Bachelor’s degree as well as during their Master’s degree.

It should be noted that students must have an advanced level of English at least in reading and writing (a minimum of B1 level in the Common European Framework).

Admission criteria

Subject to Section 7 of the RD 99/2011, of 28 of January, the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Programme (CAPD) will be in charge of student admission onto the Doctoral programme in Ageing and Frailty, according to the following criteria:

  1. Appropriateness of the academic background to the admission profile. 70 % of the total of the evaluation of the selection process.
  2. Candidate’s research career (publications, attendance at conferences, oral communications, weighting of stays in other research centres). 15 % of the total of the evaluation of the selection process.
  3. English level (at least B1 of the Common European Framework). 15 % of the total of the evaluation of the selection process.

Students with special educational needs

Article 8 of the Doctorate Regulations of the University of Murcia states that in the event of students with special educational needs derived from a disability, the selection and admissions systems and procedures will include the relevant action to favour, as far as possible, equality in the access conditions and integration in all aspects. To do so, the Service of Attention to Diversity and Volunteers (ADV) will evaluate the need for possible syllabus adaptations.

Number of places offered: 25