The doctoral program in Economics and business is part of the Doctoral School that the University of Navarra has implemented, in the framework established by the RD 99/2011, as a planning, coordination and monitoring body of the Doctoral Programmes, and the responsible for its development and organisation is the School of Economic and Business Sciences.
It is a programme adapted to the European Higher Education Area that meets the requirements set out in Royal Decree 1393/2007, of 29 October, which establishes the organisation of official university education. It was evaluated by the National Agency for Quality Assessment (National Agency for Assessment of Quality and Accreditation), verified by the committee of Universities (8 October 2012). It has official status and is registered in the Register of Universities, Centres and Degrees (22 April 2013).
The programme has been adapted to the verification procedures foreseen by the RD 99/2011, of 28 January, which regulates official doctoral studies (BOE of 10 February 2011), having obtained a favourable report favourable National Agency for Assessment of Quality and Accreditation and positively verified by the committee of Universities on 8 October 2012.
Since its beginnings in 1987, the University of Navarra's School of Economics and Business Administration has offered PhD programmes in business and Economics with the aim of training professionals primarily for the academic world, who seek excellence in research on the different subjects that make up its areas of knowledge.
Associated with this doctoral program is the Master in Economics and Finance (MEF), which is an official Master of agreement with the RD 1393/2007 and has the positive evaluation of the VERIFICA programme of the National Agency for Assessment of Quality and Accreditation (National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation). This Master constitutes the training period for those students who are going to enrol in this doctoral program.
The following Departments of the University of Navarra participate in the development of doctoral program :
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department of Economics (School of Economics and Business Studies)
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department de business (School of Economic and Business Sciences)
In the same way, professors from other Departments of the University of Navarra, especially from TECNUN and IESE, can participate in the development programme, mainly in the co-direction of doctoral theses.
Likewise, professors and doctors from other national and foreign institutions can participate in the Programme, as they have been doing, either in the co-direction of doctoral theses, giving seminars, mobility actions (both of doctoral students and of the professors themselves), participation in thesis tribunals convened to obtain the European/International Mention in the doctoral degree, etc.
