Application for a doctorate

At the moment of formalizing the application, you must submit the following documentation:

• 2 DNI/passport/NIE+ passport or community identity document+ passport. The document will have to be in force and in no case an expired document will be accepted. If you have expired, you must process the renovation and bring two copies of the corresponding safeguard.
• Original and photocopy of the supporting documentation of the right to some reduction in the price of the security:

1. Numerous family (family title will be required; individual card will not be valid for exemption application)
2. Special Collectives

You have two possible forms of credit card card card card card:

• Payment in cash: the SED will give you the receipt with which you will have to pay the fee for processing rights to one of the contributing banks.
• Credit Card: you will be able to pay the expedition rights directly to the SED.

Receiving the submission fees that SED will provide you with the formal request functions of the title and it is very important that, before signing it, you take care of the correction of the data contained in it in relation to the way you type your name and your surnames, as well as the possibility of including some conjunction between surnames, as this will be the referent of the way your data will be written to the issued title.

You can consult the current price of each of these documents on the Faculty of Philology's fee page.

Once the payment of the rights of issue of the title is made, the Secretariat will give you the guarantee/certificate of payment. This document will be used to testify to all the effects that you have passed the education and that you have the degree in the processing phase. Its legal validity is equivalent to that of the final official title.

The doctor's degree reserve document is bilingual in Catalan/Spanish. The interested party can request an English translation when processing the application. This translation will be free of charge.

The College Secretariat will send you a notice letter to the home in its archives, so it will be convenient for you to keep your data constantly updated in its databases.

To update this information you can send an email to fil-doctorat@ub.edu ,providing new data, as well as your DNI/passaport/NIE number and your NIUB number.

The title must be collected personally, following identification accredited via DNI/passaport/NIE. It will be possible to authorise another person to carry out this collection procedure, only through a notarial power.

In case you have the residence established outside the province of Barcelona, the Secretariat may submit the title to the Provincial Education Directorate or the Consular Office closest to your place of residence. In order for this to be possible, you will need to send a request email to the address fil-doctorat@ub.edu.

According to the rules of linguistic use of the University of Barcelona, the doctor's degree is issued in bilingual Catalan/Spanish edition.

You can find information about the possibility of obtaining a free English translation by making the request to the College Secretariat, which will process it and submit it to you.

A duplicate of the title may be requested in the following situations:

• Rename, surname or other personal data
  Incorporation of the extraordinary prize or other academic data that foreseen it
  Change nationality
  Original Document Loss
  Deterioration

When any of the situations that may cause a duplicate to be issued occur, you must contact the Faculty Secretariat to formalize the request for the duplicate of the degree or contact fil-doctorat@ub.edu

Once the application has been made, the fee has been paid and the documentation submitted has been checked as and when the case is concerned, the SED will give you a security guarantee in which the cause for which you have started processing a duplicate will appear. Temporarily, until the new title is delivered to you, this safeguard will have legal value of provisional title.

You must pay the corresponding rate to the duplicate in the following cases:

• When the initial data need to be modified due to the data subject
• Provided the title has been handed over to the interested party and must be rectified
• When the duplicate is processed due to the extravagance of the original title (in this case, the compulsory announcement of the extravagance will also have to be paid to the BOE, which entails an approximate  9090 expense).