Admission criteria
Profile for admission
The recommended profile for admission is of students who have a master’s degree in Economics or Finance with a high analytical component and obtained with a high level of academic performance. Furthermore, candidates who do not meet the requirements of this recommended profile for admission, but who hold master’s degree qualifications in another subject, will be individually assessed by the Academic Commission to determine whether they are suitable for the Programme, particularly as regards the high analytical component. More specifically, analytical skills will be evaluated, based on the thesis project submitted by the candidates, bearing in mind how the proposed line of research in the thesis project fits in to the array of lines of research developed by the teachers on this programme.
This program does not establish specific complementary training.
The accredited Master's degree in Economics or Finance with a strong analytical component is worth up to 70 points, and English proficiency is worth up to 20 points. The following will be considered as additional merits, and worth up to 10 points: (i) having taken the Graduate Management Administration Test (GMAT) or the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), (ii) accredited English proficiency (a score close to 550 on the TOEFL, level A on the Cambridge First Certificate, or level 6 on the British Council IELTS is recommended), and (iii) accredited knowledge of a programming language or use of statistical software (such as C+, MATLAB, STATA, SPSS, R, Python). The application must include an academic record and curriculum vitae, as well as two cover letters signed by professors from the respective undergraduate, master's, or other official academic programs.
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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 and at least one director from among the faculty at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) participating in the programme.
When a letter of endorsement is required from Doctoral Programme, director of the candidate will be the person indicated at the endorsement letter. No candidates will be accepted without endorsement letter, when it is required by doctoral programme.
Tutors are responsible for interactions between the doctoral candidate and the Academic Commission. They are also responsible for adapting training and research activities to the principles of the programmes and, where appropriate, the Doctoral School.
For more information, see the procedures and rules.