Certificates

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

This can be done in two ways:

By postal mail with subject CAP
Doctoral School
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 program 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. 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:

Notary Public Mr Teodoro López Cuesta Fernández

Avinguda Primavera, 7

08290 Cerdanyola del Vallès, near Barcelona.

Tel: 936 92 50 00 Opening hours: Monday to Thursday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.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 Doctoral School 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.

It is possible that when you return to your country, you want the PhD degree from the UAB to be recognized and have the same or similar effects as the PhD degree obtained in your country. To do this, we recommend that once you have defended your thesis, if you intend to "recognize" (homologation, equivalency, etc.) the title of Doctor of the UAB in your country, request a certificate to homologate. In this section you will find the necessary information. This certificate includes the information on the content of the Doctorate program, the type of duration of the Doctorate, the skills acquired, etc. 

To request certificates for the homologation of the PhD Certificate you must go to the Doctoral School through the address ed.certificats@uab.cat (you must identify yourself by indicating your ID / passport, NIU, name and surname). You must indicate HOMOLOGATION in the subject. The Doctoral School will request the coordination of the PhD programme to issue a certification with the content of the PhD you have made and, once received, will process the specific certification for the homologation of the PhD Certificate.

You can do it in two ways:

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


2. Sending an email to ed.certificats@uab.cat (If you send an email it is necessary that you identify yourself indicating your ID / passport, NIU, name and surname).With subject HOMOLOGATION.

Request form

You must pay the corresponding fee for these certifications:

• Certificate for homolgation: 30,00 €
• Academic certificate: 27,27 €

The delivery term of the certificates for the homologation of the PhD certificate is a minimum of 15 days.

Whether you send the application by post or by email, you must send the application form accompanied by proof of payment. This fee must be paid in the following account:

IBAN: ES48 0182 6035 4302 0160 9886
SWIFT/BIC Code: BBVAESMMXXX
BBVA - Oficina BBVA BARCELONA INSTITUCIONES - Barcelona
Account holder: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

The personal data that you must include in the application are the following:

• Name and surname, ID or passport, date of birth, nationality, address (street / square / avenue and number), city (where you want to receive the certificate), province, zip code, email and telephone.

Notes:

• Certificates can be issued only in Catalan or Spanish.
• Only details found in the UAB archives are included on certificates.
• The Doctoral School 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.

Legalisation of certificates for the homologation of the title of doctor

1) The student must go to the notary that has deposited the signatures of the University, to the following address:

Notary of Cerdanyola del Vallès
Mr. Teodoro López Cuesta Fernández
Av. Primavera, 7, 1º 1ª
08290 Cerdanyola del Vallès
Tel. 93 692 50 00 - 93 692 53 66

2) To finish, the student has to manage the recognition of the signature of the notary by the Official Association of Notaries of Catalonia:

Official Association of Notaries of Catalonia
C/ Notariat, 4
08001 Barcelona

Tel. 93 317 48 00

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 Doctoral School and signed by the Academic Secretary 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).