75 PhD Degree Programs in Spain

Upon successful completion of the study program students receive an international private Doctorate in Global Studies degree awarded by the school's headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, based on the recommendation of the faculty of the local campuses where credits were earned.

This full-time program follows the highest international quality standards for doctoral studies, from the rigorous admissions process, continuous high-performance control process, to the comprehensive exam and thesis defense, enabling graduates to take faculty positions at leading universities around the world or to become innovation leaders for international companies.

Given the inter-campus and inter-campus nature of the Department of Microbiology and Parasitology (Santiago and Lugo Campus), the scientific interest of this Doctoral Program lies in the fact that it brings together the different lines of research in the fields of Biology, Pharmacy, Veterinary Medicine, Medicine and Food Science and Technology developed by the members of the Department within the Microbiology and Parasitology Knowledge Areas.

Tourism has been consolidated as one of the most relevant sectors from the economic and social point of view, not only in Spain but also worldwide. In the context of disciplines of a social nature, tourism is an interdisciplinary object of knowledge that covers a wide range of activities carried out by private companies and public institutions, with an impact on the lives of people, both residents and visitors. This doctoral program brings together two singularities that make it especially attractive: the participation of 12 Spanish universities with extensive experience in tourism studies, creating synergies and stimuli for the student body; and the interdisciplinary nature with the active involvement of numerous areas of knowledge that contribute to enriching the Program through a wide range of lines of research.

The PhD program in Vision Sciences is an interuniversity and interdisciplinary program, with a vocation for international collaboration and a high commitment to the modern research training that is expected in the biomedical field.

The Doctorate Program in Mathematics, associated with the "Campus Vida" of International Excellence of the USC, and with a quality mention obtained in 2008, has a long history at this University. The doctors trained in it created research groups that attended and successfully attend regional, national and European calls for funding and their publications achieved and continue to achieve levels of high quality and impact.

The PhD in Systems and Sustainable Engineering of Loyola University Andalusia aims to guide future researchers in learning innovative methods, processes, and analysis techniques with a practical multidisciplinary approach that can face, in a scientific way, the main scientific and social problems of the field in engineering.

This is a program marked by multidisciplinarity in terms of teacher and student qualifications since it involves researchers from four different departments of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Plant Production, Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Plant Physiology and Botany), four research centers (Centro de Investigaciones Forestales de Lourizán, Estación Fitopatológica de Arenero, Centro de Investigaciones Agrarias de Mabegondo and Misión Biológica de Galicia) and international institutions (Germany, Switzerland, United States, Portugal and Greece), University of Extremadura and two centers of the University of A Coruña (Institute of Geology and Faculty of Sciences) which offers the student a wide range to choose the subject related to agricultural and forestry production in Galicia and the Atlantic biogeographic region of Europe.

Doctoral studies in Education are aimed at the training of researchers, with a strong emphasis on both qualitative and quantitative research methodology and techniques.

This program brings together the teams and researchers that form the reference nucleus of linguistic studies in the Galician University System, with researchers from different areas of knowledge and from different languages in the same lines of research. This cooperation between different areas and disciplines allows us to offer a more open training, with theoretical approaches and current methodologies, as well as allowing working with different languages. It also has the collaboration of a significant number of international relief experts.

The Faculty of Philosophy of the USC has been teaching for more than two decades a doctoral program that, although its name has changed slightly (Current Questions of Philosophy, Philosophy, Philosophy: Current Questions), has as fundamental objectives to train students to research and train students in the various burning questions of contemporary philosophy.

The Doctorate Program in Law is a solid, ambitious and future-oriented proposal that brings together practically all branches of Law. This option also escaped from an atomization of lines of research in order to consolidate multiple perspectives in seven main lines that allow to provide this formative stage with an approach that surpasses the division into areas of knowledge, favoring synergies between groups and that also allows the sum of critical mass and the display of sound scientific results.

The program aims to continue with the quality training of researchers in the field of the molecular bases of human diseases. Research in human health is a priority axis of the different knowledge management and innovation programs, both at the regional, state and European level.

This program was created with the purpose of responding to a series of training, scientific and research needs that are found in the Galician University System (SUG). The Doctoral Program promotes studies at the postgraduate level and promotes research training for students in the field of Health Sciences and specifically in the field of Dentistry.

Contemporary History is a fully consolidated area in university teaching and research. Beyond the limits of the Humanities, it also has a growing recognition and notorious interest among scientists and professionals in the macro-scientific-social area. This is because of its ability to explain recent times and, consequently, provide that repository of essential experiences to be able to understand the present and face decision-making, as well as to contribute to forging collective memory, an essential ingredient of social cohesion. Therefore, the significance of Contemporary History in the articulation of current societies is beyond doubt.

The degree aims to provide a broad and solid training in Mathematics, as it contains a wide range of research topics that cover many relevant areas of mathematics, as well as its applications to Physics, Biology, Medicine, Computing, Ecology, Biotechnology, Economics …

This program is adapted to a specialized and competitive postgraduate offer with respect to the university, national and international environment, increasing the social prestige of postgraduate studies. This proposal is intended to reinforce the prestige of USC's research career.