Thesis registration procedure

Defense request procedure

Once the supervisor and the doctoral student judge that the thesis is ready for defense, the following documents should be sent to the Ph.D. Support Unit (USD):

Authorization thesis director reading proposal
Examination Commission Proposal (3+2) (5+2)
Summary of the thesis in English and Spanish or Catalan signed in paper and CD
Thesis in pdf format
Doctoral Student Activity Report
Draft of the report on the quality of the thesis and authorisation by the academic committee of the program for its submission
Report from two external referees
Enrolment application
TDX form

Attention Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Sustainability students:

Before going to Step 1, you will follow a previous step. You must presentto the Ph.D. Support Unit the following documents:

Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering

Examination Commission proposal (different of T document) (model) + brief CV of the members.
Proposal of two referees (model)*

Sustainability

Examination Commission proposal (different of T document) (model) + brief CV of the members.
Proposal of two referees (model)**

** The Reglament del Programa de Doctorat en Sostenibilitat stipulates (point 3.4) that thesis work in wich 2 accepted articles are presented in WoS (JCR) in wich the doctoral student is the first author are exempt from external review.

Once reviewed by the Committee, the request will be approved and you will be able to continue with Step 1.

International Doctorate Mention

Should you wish to obtain the International Doctorate Mention, you must provide the following:

Certificate of the foreign institution of the period of study or research (more than three months long) officially signed and stamped by the university or department
The external referee reports on official headed paper and signed and stamped by the institution or research centre of the referees
Application for the International Doctorate qualification signed by the thesis supervisor/s and the head of the Academic Commission of the Doctoral program
Approval and authorisation for the International Doctorate Mention form

Doctoral thesis as a collection of published articles

In case of presenting a doctoral thesis as a collection of published articles, you must resent your application form before starting with the deposit procedure.

The term between the presentation of the documents until the Standing Committee of the Doctoral School determines on the application is of 15 working days.

Documents to be provided:

A general request form indicating that you wish to submit the thesis as a collection of published articles
A list of the articles that comprise the full thesis submission
Copies of the articles or other publications constituting the thesis

For further information visit the Doctoral School.

Payment of fees

Once the enrolment process ends, a fee is generated. Registration is not considered official until the corresponding fee has been paid in full.

Monitoring

Once the Doctoral School Office gives public notification of the thesis deposit via the UPC website, the stablished legal calendar starts:

10 academic calendar days from the thesis deposit at the Doctoral School for the department's professors to review the full text of the deposited thesis and submit any observations they deem necessary
the Doctoral School appoints the examination panel and informs the Doctoral Studies Support Unit
10 academic calendar days (at least) to contact each panel member and decide the thesis defence date

Bear in mind that any amendment affecting the process could result in delays.