Overview

The Tourism programme from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) is part of the REDINTUR cooperation framework, which is made up of 19 Universities with postgraduate studies in Tourism, which has been described in the 2012-2015 National Plan for Tourism of the Ministry of Energy, Industry and Tourism, within the Talent and Entrepreneurship section as a strength, highlighting its operation and training programmes in tourism.

Under this framework, the lines of research of the different groups of the aforementioned Universities have been unified and coordinated with the aim of collaborating and promoting training and research in Tourism in Spain

Official qualification

The UOC's Doctoral Programme of Tourism (interuniversity: UMA, UA, UCA, UCM, UEX, ULL, Nebrija, UOC, URJC, USC, US, UVIGO) is a programme that has been approved by the Spanish Universities Council, and its implementation has been authorized by the Government of Catalonia, in accordance with current legislation.

The UOC's doctoral programmes have full academic validity throughout Spain; where such is the intention, they are qualifications to perform regulated professions, in accordance with the regulations applicable in each case.

The certificates for these programmes are issued together with a Diploma Supplement (DS), providing details of what the student studied, their results, the professional competencies obtained and the qualification's level in the Spanish higher education system; the aim of this is to facilitate recognition of the qualification and promote students' and graduates' mobility within the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).

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Programme Structure

Study plan

The aim of this training is to acquire and develop the following skills:

Dealing with contexts in which there is little specific information.
Find the key questions to be answered to solve a complex problem.
Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
Work both in a team and autonomously in an international or multidisciplinary context.
Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and formulate judgements with limited information.
Intellectual criticism and defence of solutions.
Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial process of research or creation.
Ability to contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
Ability to carry out critical analysis and evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society

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Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months
Part-time
- 84 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2025-09-18 00:00:00
- Apply before 2025-03-05 00:00:00

Language

English, Catalan, Spanish

Delivered

Online

Disciplines

Hospitality Management Tourism & Leisure

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

The general criterion for admission is established as the presentation of a proposal for a Doctoral Thesis Project, related to one of the research teams existing in the Doctoral Program, in which the objectives, justification for adherence to a research line, methodology, expected results, and necessary resources for its preparation, proposed tutor and thesis director, and report of the proposed thesis director are described.

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Tuition Fee

Price per credit: 32,28 €/credit
Price per learning resources credit: 15,16 €/credit

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Funding

To promote the training of researchers in the different research groups at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), UOC is awarding one predoctoral grant for doctoral theses in the framework of the interuniversity doctoral programmes. UOC's grant programme will consist of hiring trainee predoctoral researchers, specifically under predoctoral researcher training contracts. Predoctoral grant holders will have all those employment and other rights relating to social security deriving from the contract signed with the UOC. The potential beneficiaries of a predoctoral grant include individuals who, at the time of applying, fulfill the access requirements for the organized research period on a doctoral programme at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. The specific requirements can be consulted on the UOC website.

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