Doctoral program in Economics and Business Sciences

Presentation

The implementation of the Doctorate Program in Economics and Business Sciences is especially important in the economic sector both for the country as a whole and for the Community of Madrid, where the Rey Juan Carlos University is located, so that its results can be join the objectives set in the different areas of public policies.

The program is connected to the Spanish R&D&I Strategy in Artificial Intelligence within the objective of Digital Spain 2026 (Axis 4. Data Economy and Artificial Intelligence), which offers mechanisms to generate innovation in fields such as the fight against misinformation or its use in computational research techniques.

Objectives

This program will allow:

• Offer quality doctoral training, endorsed by researchers and groups with recognized experience.
• Consolidate the excellent doctoral training that has been provided and promote doctoral training in the proposed areas in which the URJC already has experienced researchers.
• Train new researchers.
• Specialize postgraduates who are interested in their adequate professional, scientific and technical development.
• Promote the training of new teachers in related disciplines.
• Facilitate the training of thesis directors.
• Promote the creation of research groups and networks, national and international, and interdisciplinarity and that focus their research on the challenges of society identified in the EU Research and Innovation Framework Program, the State Plan for Scientific Research and Technical and Innovation Plan and the current Regional Plan for scientific research and technological innovation related to the scope of the doctoral program.

In short, this new Doctorate program at the Rey Juan Carlos University has as its immediate objective the training of doctors equipped with a critical scientific spirit, capacity for research and teamwork, through teaching organized in two areas: one general ( research techniques and methods, tools and resources for the same) and another of specialization of the different lines and consolidated research topics that are developed in it.

Competences

Basic skills

• Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of the skills and research methods related to that field.
• Ability to conceive, design or create, put into practice and adopt a substantial research or creation process.
• Ability to contribute to expanding the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
• Ability to carry out a critical analysis and evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
• Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages ​​commonly used in their international scientific community.
• Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.
• Ability to promote Open Science and Citizen Science, in accordance with article 12 of Organic Law 2/2023, of March 22, as a way to contribute to the consideration of scientific knowledge as a common good, through the evaluation of transversal activities carried out carried out by the doctoral student related to different dimensions of Open Science and Citizen Science, as well as the training acquired in both disciplines in micro-credential or similar format. (From the application of RD 576/2023, of July 4)

Personal abilities and skills

• Get along in contexts in which there is little specific information.
• Find the key questions that must be answered to solve a complex problem.
• Design, create, develop and undertake new and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
• Work both as a team and autonomously in an international or multidisciplinary context.
• Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and make judgments with limited information.
• The criticism and intellectual defense of solutions.

Other skills:

• Establish and deepen the knowledge of essential theories and paradigms in the fields of Economics and Business that facilitate understanding of the interrelation between different study frameworks and the discovery of future lines of research.
• Acquire advanced knowledge in the context of internationally recognized scientific research, a deep, detailed and well-founded understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects in one or more research fields in the program disciplines (Economics or Business)
• Develop the ability to make an original and significant contribution to scientific research in the field of knowledge of Economics and Business and for this contribution to be recognized as such by the international scientific community.
• Acquire a degree of in-depth knowledge about the different research designs, as well as the research stages, the formulation of hypotheses and the use of primary or secondary sources to investigate in the field of knowledge of Economics and Business.
• Demonstrate your ability to design a research project in any of the areas of Economics or Business where you can apply your contributions, knowledge and work methodology.
• Acquire the necessary knowledge in the quantitative and/or qualitative methodological paradigm for the correct choice and application of the same to the research problem posed in the field of Economics and Business (selection of population under study, parameters, items and/or variables to analyze, case method, experimentation, etc.)
• Develop the ability to handle the analysis techniques and tools of previous literature, as well as the quantitative and/or qualitative analysis procedures and tools applicable in the field of Economics and Business to analyze the results of the research and/or or respond to the proposed research hypotheses
• Demonstrate that they are capable of participating in scientific discussions that take place internationally on matters related to Economics or Business Sciences, as well as disseminating the results of their research activity to all types of audiences.

General requirements International Doctoral School

General requirements International Doctoral School

Program Admission Criteria

1 Profile

The Doctoral Programme in Economics and Business is aimed at students with prior knowledge related to the field of Economics and Business, based on quantitative training and a strong motivation and vocation towards scientific research in these fields. Specifically, the following qualifications are considered preferential for entry:

• Graduate in Business Administration and Management, Graduate in Finance and Accounting, Degree in Economics, Degrees in Marketing and related fields in the field of economics and business, and who have continued their studies in a University Master's Degree also related to the areas of Economics and Business.

• Graduate in Economics and Business Administration, Graduate in Business Administration and Management and related fields in the field of economics and business.

2 Profile

Likewise, degrees related to the area of ​​economics and business are considered, which are understood as those that, belonging to the social sciences, have a significant weight in economics, accounting, finance, organization, marketing, human resources and business administration, and statistical and mathematical methods.

More specifically, the doctoral candidate's training will need to be in line with the content of the research lines chosen from among the different lines offered within the programme.

The acceptance or denial of admission will be carried out by the Academic Commission, taking into account, in addition to the general and specific requirements of the Program, the following criteria:

A minimum score of 5 out of 10 will be required to be admitted.

For this doctoral program, there is no type of special entrance test that the applicant must take. However, the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program reserves the exceptional possibility of requiring a personal interview with a student to clarify or comment on any of the previous assessment and selection criteria; especially, those relating to the minimum level of linguistic fluency to read and communicate in Spanish and/or English (minimum level B2).

Number of new admission places

The number of new admission places will be 45 students, reserving 5% of the places for students with disabilities.

Internal quality assurance system

Manual of the Internal Quality Assurance System

Composition of the commission

Composition of the commission

Code of good practices

Code of good practices

Results report

Once the follow-up of the Doctorate Program has been carried out, the most relevant quantitative information is shown on the results obtained in the follow-up of said Degree, differentiated by academic year.

Report by academic year:

• Results report

General information collection plan

Within the quality assurance system of the Rey Juan Carlos University, the following surveys are being carried out as part of the general information collection plan:

• Survey addressed to new students of doctoral programs
• Doctoral student satisfaction survey with the doctoral program
• Satisfaction surveys of the doctoral student with the training activities of the doctoral program
• Assessment surveys of supervisors and thesis tutors
• Faculty satisfaction survey with the doctoral program

Survey results:

• Indicators

Improvement actions

• Improvement actions

Renewal of accreditation

Renewal of the accreditation represents the culmination of the implementation process of the official qualifications registered in the Register of Universities, Centers and Qualifications (RUCT). The renewal of the accreditation of official degrees is organized in three phases: self-assessment report, external visit and final assessment. In the first phase, the university describes and assesses the status of the degree with respect to the established criteria and guidelines. The result is the Self-Assessment Report (IA) that is presented. The second and third phases are carried out by a group of evaluators external to the evaluated title.

• Final report renewal of accreditation

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