Full-time

The duration of doctoral studies is a maximum of four years, full-time, counting from the date of first enrolment until the date the doctoral thesis is submitted.

Before this deadline, if the application to submit the thesis has not been made, the academic committee responsible for the programme, with previous request of the doctoral student, will be able to authorise deferment for one more year, under the conditions established in the corresponding doctoral programme.Once this deferment period ends, the deadline for submitting the doctoral thesis will be non-extendible.

Part-time

The academic committee of the doctoral programme can authorise part-time doctoral studies.In this case the maximum duration will be seven years, to count from the date of the first enrolment until the date the doctoral thesis is submitted.

Before this deadline, if the application to submit the thesis has not been made, the academic committee responsible for the programme, with previous request of the doctoral student, will be able to authorise deferment for one more year, under the conditions established in the corresponding doctoral programme.Once this deferment period ends, the deadline for submitting the doctoral thesis will be non-extendible.

Student who have started the programme full-time can request the academic committee of the doctoral programme to allow them to change to part-time, justifying the reason for the request.The academic committee must issue a report justifying the acceptance or refusal of the change in time devoted to the thesis.Consideration must be given to the fact that if the change is authorised, the period in which the doctoral thesis has been carried out full-time must be deducted proportionately.

For the purposes of calculating the deadline for the doctoral thesis, consideration is given to periods of temporary disability, births, adoptions, leave for the purposes of adoption, foster care, risk during the pregnancy, risk during breastfeeding and gender violence or any other foreseen circumstances in the regulations.In addition, the student may request periods of temporary leave from the programme for a maximum of two calendar years.This request must be justified and submitted to the academic committee responsible for the programme, which must offer an opinion on the request.When a doctoral student has leave approved by the academic committee for 5 months or more during the same academic year, the student does not need to enrol for the same year.If the leave is granted to them once enrolled, they will have to request the annulment of their enrolment for the aforementioned reasons.In these cases, it will not be necessary to present the follow-up for that academic year to be able to enrol for the following one.

Students who use up the maximum duration of the doctoral studies course according to each regime of time devoted, and where applicable, the corresponding deferment, will be retired definitively from the doctoral programme they are enrolled on, with no possibility of continuing their studies on the programme.However, they will be able to apply for admission onto another doctoral programme at the UdG for the following academic year, presenting a new thesis with a new tutor and new supervisors.If they want to request access and admission to the same doctoral programme, a full academic year will have to have passed and a new thesis project presented with a new tutor and new supervisors.