UPM Regulations

The following links will allow you to access directly to the regulations of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid that governs and articulates all the procedures related to the Doctoral Programmes and the development of a Doctoral Thesis.

Doctoral regulations: https://www.upm.es/Estudiantes/Estudios_Titulaciones/Estudios_Doctorado/normativa

The Universidad Politécnica de Madrid is currently drafting the ‘Good practice guide for the supervision of doctoral theses’. This guide will be applied to the Doctoral Programme as soon as it is approved by the University’s Governing Council. The current document is shown below. Good practice guide:

https://www.upm.es/sfs/Rectorado/Vicerrectorado%20de%20Investigacion/Doctorado/Normativa/Documentos/Guia%20de%20buenas%20practicas%20junio%202017.pdf

National legislation:

  • Royal Decree 99/2011, of 28 January, regulating official doctoral studies:

Regulations of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

  • Regulations for the preparation and assessment of doctoral theses:

  • Modification of the previous regulations:

  • UPM Doctoral Model:

  • Regulations for enrolment and admission to doctoral studies:

  • Guide of Good Practices for Doctoral Studies at the UPM:

  • Quality Criteria for Doctoral Theses:

  • Norms for the writing of doctoral theses

  • Others: Material. Co-supervision (international) of doctoral theses, Industrial doctorate regulations, Internships in companies for doctoral students, Thesis by compendium of publications, Thesis confidentiality procedure, etc.

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