Certificates

1. REQUESTS

Requests for academic certificates should be addressed to the School for Doctoral Studies.

This can be done in two ways:

By postal mail with subject CAP
School for Doctoral Studies
Floor 3 - U Building
Travessera de Can Miró, s/n - UAB Campus
08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona).
 

By e-mail to ed.certificats@uab.cat with subject CAP

Whether you request it by mail or by email, you must send the request form accompanied by proof of payment. This fee, € 27,27, must be paid by transfer (it is not possible to do it via Bizum) into the following account:
IBAN: ES48 0182 6035 4302 0160 9886
SWIFT code: BBVAESMMXXX
BBVA - Branch BBVA BARCELONA INSTITUCIONES - Barcelona
Account holder: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

IMPORTANT: You must fill in all the fields of the application or we will not be able to issue the certificate.

If you apply for the certificate of a doctoral programme regulated by RD 185/1985 or RD 778/1998 (taken between 1985 and 2005), and you want your student record scores, you must choose according to the scale of RD 1267 or 1125/2003.

 

2. CONTENT AND FORMAT

These certificates contain the following information:

• Personal data
• Access data
• Name of the studies
• Information about the academic tutor, supervisor, and research line
• Formalised progress enrolments and grades
• Doctoral thesis data (defence date, grade, thesis title, whether it includes an international, industrial mention or cotutelle)
• Data related to the issuance of the degree, if the studies have been completed and the corresponding fees have been paid

Format

• The certificate will be issued in Catalan or Spanish
• It is issued in electronic format and includes a Verification Code (CSV) + QR code

Remarks

• Only the indicated dates that are documented in the records of this university will be certified
• The School for Doctoral Studies will delete, according to the instructions, the certificates that have not been collected within a period of 3 years from the date of issue. If the interested party wishes to request it again, a new fee must be paid.

 

3. LEGALISATIONS

Legalisation of the electronic academic transcript for the studies you completed leading to the award of a doctoral degree

Once you have the signed certificate, you must send it by email to the following email address: legalizaciones.cat@correo.gob.es prior to the date of the scheduled appointment, so that the Higher Inspectorate of Education in the Ministry of Universities can verify its authenticity. To avoid unnecessary travel, we recommend that you do not make an appointment until the Higher Inspectorate of Education has confirmed that the document sent by email is correct. On the day of the appointment, you will need to bring a printed copy of the certificate, since it will be rubber stamped to legalise it.

If you live abroad (including Andorra), you do not need to physically go to the Higher Inspectorate of Education in Barcelona for the signature recognition procedure. This procedure with the Ministry of Universities can be carried out at Spanish embassies and consulates.

Legalisation of your academic certificate (studies that are not complete or are currently in progress)

If you have not completed your studies and you need to legalise an academic certificate stating what you have studied at the UAB so far, you must apply for a personal academic certificate with a handwritten signature provided by the registrar for your faculty or school. You can apply in person by appointment or through the UAB electronic registry (using a generic application). This certificate with a handwritten signature can only be issued in Catalan or Spanish.

To legalise your certificate with a handwritten signature you will have to visit the office of the Notary Public indicated below:

Notaria CORREA CASTELLÓ

Carrer Sant Francesc, 4, 1r,

08290 Cerdanyola del Vallès

Tel. 93 592 05 07. 

Opening hours: 9:30 a.m. to  14:00a.m.. and Tuesday and Thursday  17:00 a.m. to 19:00 a.m.

Notes:

• Certificates can be issued only in Catalan or Spanish
• The details from student records are certified only according to the UAB's standard model for personal academic certificates. Certification cannot be given for part of a course.
• Only details found in the UAB archives are included on certificates.
• The School for Doctoral Studies will eliminate, according to the instructions, the certificates that have not been collected within a period of 3 years from the date of their preparation. If the interested party wants to request it again, he must pay the corresponding fee again.

Certificates on supervision and / or academic tutoring of the thesis must be requested from the PhD programme.

The head of the Department responsible for the programme will be the one who will issue and sign these certificates.

 

The certificates of having participated in a doctoral thesis examination panel will be issued by the School for Doctoral Studies and signed by the Director of the School.

To request the certificate of having been member of a examination panel, you must send an email to ed.certificats@uab.cat with the subject TRIBUNAL MEMBER.

You must send us your Identity Card number and tell us if you are a UAB professor.

 

The following are the different types of certificates that can be requested:

 

1. Academic personal certificate of your PhD file (all the file made up to the moment of the applications will be recorded).
   • If you attended the PhD programme regulated by Royal Decree 185/1985, the application for the degrees of DESE and the Master in Research Initiation may be recorded, provided you have paid the corresponding fees for its issuance.
   • If you attended the PhD programme regulated by Royal Decree 185/1985, the application for the degrees of DESE, the Master in Research Initiation and the DEA may be recorded, provided you have paid the corresponding fees for its issuance.

Each type of certificate has its own academic fee:

• Ordinary certificate: €27.27
• Certificate for students from first-category large families (3 to 4 dependent children): €13.64*
• Certificate for students from second-category and special-category large families (5 or more dependent children): free of charge*

 

* The corresponding family card must previously have been presented to the School for Doctoral Studies and this card must still be valid when payment for the certificate is made.


Payment for the certificate may be made in two ways:

1. To the following bank account: BBVA ES48 0182 6035 4302 0160 9886. The original payment slip must be attached to the request. 
    
2. Payment using an electronic purse or debit card at the User Information Unit of the School for Doctoral Studies of the UAB (Bellaterra Campus).