The University of Navarra has C the "Instrucción sobre los Programas de Doctorado de la Universidad de Navarra", October 2011, which establishes, in agreement with the R.D. 99/2011, of 28 January, which regulates official doctoral studies, the requirements general access to the Doctorate. agreement According to R.D. 99/2011, of 28 January, the general requirements for access to doctoral studies are:

 1. In general, access to an official doctoral programme shall require the possession of the official Spanish degrees of Degree, or equivalent, and of a university Master's degree, or equivalent, provided that at least 300 credits ECTS credit have been obtained in these two courses together.

 2. Access shall also be granted to those who are in one of the following situations: 

agreement a) Hold an official Spanish university degree, or from another country belonging to the European Higher Education Area, which qualifies the holder for access to a Master's degree, in accordance with the provisions of Article 16 of Royal Decree 1393/2007, of 29 October, and have passed a minimum of 300 credits ECTS credit in official university studies, of which at least 60 must be at Master's level. 

b) Hold an official Spanish degree of graduate or Graduate, the duration of which, in accordance with the rules of Community law, is at least 300 credits ECTS credit. These graduates must take the complementary training courses referred to in Article 7.2 of this rule, unless the Study program of the corresponding degree of Degree includes research training credits, equivalent in training value to the research credits from Master's studies.

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d) Holding a degree obtained in accordance with foreign education systems, without the need for its recognition, after verification by the university that it accredits a level of training equivalent to that of the official Spanish Master's degree and that it entitles the holder to access doctoral studies in the country issuing the degree. This admission will not imply, under any circumstances, the homologation of the previous degree held by the interested party nor its recognition for any other purposes than that of access to doctoral studies. 

e) Be in possession of another Spanish doctoral degree obtained in accordance with previous university regulations. 

f) Be in possession of an official university degree that has obtained the correspondence to level 3 of the framework Spanish Qualifications for Higher Education, from agreement with the procedure established in the Royal Decree 967/2014, of 21 November, which establishes the requirements and the procedure for the homologation and declaration of equivalence to degree and official university academic level and for the validation of foreign studies in Higher Education, and the procedure to determine the correspondence to the levels of the framework Spanish Qualifications for Higher Education of the official degrees of Architect, Engineer, graduate, Technical Architect, Technical Engineer and diploma holder. 

Admission to the PhD in Communication will be governed by the specific criteria of the programme, provided that the general admission conditions of the University of Navarra are met. Students who apply to doctoral program part-time must meet the same prior admission requirements requirements , and will follow the same admission procedure as the rest of the students procedure .  

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profile 1: Direct access without complements of training. Degree Arts and Humanities / Social and Legal Sciences and a Master's Degree related to the research in Communication. This profile does not necessarily require complements of training. If a PhD student wants to take a course and requests it, agreement according to the criteria of his/her director/a, he/she will be given access to it. 

profile 2: Access with complements of training. Any Degree other than Arts and Humanities/ Social and Legal Sciences and a Master's Degree related to research in Communication. These students 2, are required as complements of training the subjects of a program of their own -which are offered biannually- made up of three subjects:

Communication research methods

2. Research writing

3. Communication theories

Once the legal conditions for access have been met, two admission criteria are established: 

1. transcript academic: will represent 70% of the global evaluation

2. Curriculum vitae (experience, motivation letter, certification of language): It will account for 30% of the overall evaluation . The motivation letter must show the area of research in which the student wishes to enter and the reasons why he/she wishes to carry out the doctorate. This letter will allow to value the intellectual interest to deepen in the scientific knowledge , the critical spirit, the capacity of argumentation and the illusion and initiative.

The score minimum that must be reached by the candidate is 50 points.

In order to assess both criteria, an interview will be conducted in which the Academic Committee will address:

- the academic training and the academic transcript , especially the degrees with competencies and knowledge related to the areas of specialization of doctoral program.

- professional and research experience, especially in activities related to the areas of specialization of doctoral program.

- the accreditation that certifies sufficient knowledge of language English and Spanish (if applicable) to be able to approach without difficulty the teaching taught in those languages.

- the letter of motivation required of candidates showing their interest in pursuing the doctoral program, and the reasoned subject matter on which they would like to conduct research if admitted.

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