ETSAB - Barcelona School of Architecture

Doctoral Degree

Procedure to apply for the degree

You can apply for the Doctoral Degree after the Doctoral Thesis has been evaluated on your academic file and you are aware of all payments. Check it on the e-Secretaria student portal before starting the procedure. In addition, you will should to check that all the personal data on are correct.

Required documentation

DNI/Pasaport (in case of Spanish nationality) or NIE/Passaport/Origin's country identity card (in case of foreign nationality)

How to apply for the degree

You will find the degree application process on the e-Secretaria student portal (Degree certificate and application menu). For obtain complementary information, please check the UPC Servei de Gestió Acadèmica website.

Remember!. It's important that you review all the data. Changes after the application would mean the issuance of a new degree and the payment of the issuance fees again. 

  • At the end of the procedure, you can download the Payment's fees document (non-legalizable document). 
  • If you have to carry out legalization procedures, we can provide you with a document called Certificate of degree in process, which replaces the final Degree and can have effects outside of Spain. You can request it through the e-Secretaria student portal (Procedures menu).
  • The final oficial Degree may take around a year and a half to be issued. When it's available, you will receive a message to the email that appears on your file.

 

Collecting or sending the degree

Only the holder can collect his/her degree in person from our offices. In case of impossibility, the holder must grant a notarized authorization (power of attorney -which must be duly legalized if it's issued outside of Spain) to a third person. It's important that the power of attorney is broad, in case the legalization of the degree is also needed (when it must have effects outside Spanish territory).

You can also ask for the degree to be sent to the Delegación del Gobierno, Subdelegación del Gobierno or Dirección Provincial de Educación en Ceuta y Melilla if you don't reside in the Barcelona province; or at the Spanish Diplomatic or Consular Representation closest to your adress, if you're abroad. You can apply through the e-Secretaria student portal.

 

Legalization of official academic documents

When official academic documents (Academic certificates, Certificates of degree in process or final oficial Degrees) must have effects outside of Spain, they must be legalized so can be recognized in that country. The documents' legalization doesn't correspond to the University, but to the Ministerio de Educación and to the Ministerio de Justicia/Asuntos Exteriores.

You will have to follow the procedure indicated by the Servicio de Legalización de la Alta Inspección de Educación de la Delegación del Gobierno en Cataluña (Ministerio de Educación).

In each institution you must request a prior appointment and provide the document in person on the agreed day and time, with valid original identification (DNI, Passport or NIE). If a third person does the procedure, he/she must identify himself/herself and provide the type of authorization required by each institution.

First step: VALIDATION OF THE SIGNATURE OF THE DOCUMENT IN THE  "ALTA INSPECCIÓN DE EDUCACIÓN EN CATALUÑA":

    • C. Bergara, 12  Floor 5 - 08002 BARCELONA
    • Telephon: 93.520.96.85
    • Email adress: legalizaciones.cat@correo.gob.es (Send the digital document by email, before requesting a prior appointment)
    • To request a prior appointment: https://ssweb.seap.minhap.es/icpplus/citar?org=GO-EDU (Go with the document printed on paper)

Second step: LEGALIZATION OF THE DOCUMENT IN THE CORRESPONDING INSTITUTION, as the case may be:

  • When the document must have effects in a country that has NOT ratified the Hague Convention (Hague Apostille), the legalization will be done at the Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación.
    • C. General Pardiñas, 55 (with Padilla street) -  28006 MADRID
    • Telephon: 91.379.16.63
    • To request a prior appointment: https://sede.maec.gob.es/pagina/index/directorio/citaprevia
    • Afterwards, you must bring the document to the Spanish Diplomatic or Consular Representation in the country where it's to have effect, where it will be officially recognized.