Enrolment

Admission onto a doctoral programme not only implies a relationship between the Thesis Supervisor and the doctoral student but also between the student and the University; therefore, if you have been admitted to a doctoral programme, prior to writing your thesis, you must complete your enrolment to secure the right to academic supervision and pay the enrolment fee within ten days from the date of admission. This enrolment endows you with membership of the University, entitling you to use the resources necessary to conduct your research and to exercise your full rights as a doctoral student. If fee payments are not made on time, admission will not be processed and the student will leave the programme definitively.

If your are already a doctoral student, enrolment for academic supervision must be completed every academic year, from the year of being admitted to the doctoral programme until you present the defence of your doctoral thesis. If fee payments are not made on time, the student will leave the programme definitively and their registration with the Doctoral School will be terminated. In the event that you decide to return to your doctoral studies again, you will have to reapply for access and admission.

Instructions

  • Consult the enrolment periods in the administrative calendar.
  • Consult if you may be beneficiary of the reductions or exemptions in the registration fee.
  • Enrol online. To log onto the self-enrolment system, you need a username and a password:
    • New students or students who do not have a user account at the University should register at the doctorate registry page. 
    • Students who already have a user account with the University can log on with this account. If you have forgotten your account details, go to the doctorate registry page, register, and then click on remember password.
    • Enter the online enrolment application 
  • Pay the enrolment fee. Details about enrolment fees, such as the amount, method of payment, split or single payments, reduced fees or exemption from payment, can be consulted here.
Forms of payment
  • Single payment for the academic tutoring: Total amount of the tuition to be paid within the dates that appear in the receipt of liquidation. Only in the case of additional training complements, the payment in installments could be applied if the amount is higher than 350 euros
Method of payment

IMPORTANT: You do not need to present a receipt at the University, but it is very important that you keep the receipt, as you may be asked to produce it if there is no record of payment in your transcript.

a) If you live in Spain.
  • Payment with Santander ELAVON card (electronic or card payment).
    • ​Maestro, Mastercard, Visa and Visa Electron credit and debit cards are all valid. Very important: Make sure your card has activated the 3-D Secure system or similar.
    • Have your card ready before starting the process. Before using this form of payment please read the following important information. 
    • If you are uncertain how to use this method of payment, do not start the process.

  • Bank receipt: Once the registration receipt has been printed, it can be cashed at any Banco Santander ATM or branch upon presentation of the settlement receipt.

b) If you live outside in Spain.​​

  • Payment with Santander ELAVON card (electronic or card payment).

    • Maestro, Mastercard, Visa and Visa Electron credit and debit cards are all valid. Very important: Make sure your card has activated the 3-D Secure system or similar. On-line payment. 
    • Have your card ready before starting the process. Before using this form of payment please read the following important information. If you are uncertain how to use this method of payment, do not start the process.
  • Which enrolment receipts can be paid on-line using MI PORTAL?
    • Unpaid receipts under any form of payment which can be viewed in the unpaid receipts section, except: if the payment date has been exceeded or if you have already printed the receipt. In those cases contact the Graduate Students’ Secretariat at escuela.doctorado@uah.es in order to make the on-line payment possible.
    • Erroneous receipts:
      • If for some reason the on-line payment could not be completed, your enrolment will not be validated and you will not be able to print the receipt.
      • Such receipts may be viewed in the erroneous receipts section.
      • In order to pay and validate the enrolment, try to make the payment using MI PORTAL and clicking on the receipt management application. If you do not wish to try again, contact the Graduate Students’ Secretariat at escuela.doctorado@uah.es 

Bank receipt:Once the registration receipt has been printed, it can be cashed at any Banco Santander ATM or branch upon presentation of the payment receipt.

Invoice request

The public fees payment receipt is issued in the student´s name. If it is to be paid by a public or private Company or Institution, this body should request the issue of an invoice within the payment period stated on the receipt using the form Factura abono del importe de matrícula (Registration fee payment invoice). Once the invoice has been requested, the receipt cannot be used for the purposes of payment.

Documentation
Place of submission

Doctoral School. Official Postgraduate Studies Service,

Colegio de León. C/ Libreros, 21

28801 - Alcalá de Henares, Madrid

Office hours
  • Monday to Friday: from 9 to 14 o’clock, except public holidays.
  • From 1 to 31 August, both inclusive (holidays).

Cancellation will become effective for non-payment of the full or partial amount of the fees and it will entail:

New intake students:

Failure to have paid the corresponding academic tutelage fee will mean your admission is not valid and your academic file will be closed.

Students in other years:
  • Failure to pay the corresponding fees in the stated periods will mean closure of the student’s academic file and the consequent loss of the status of doctoral student of the University of Alcalá. 
  • Should the student consider embarking on Doctoral studies in the future, entry and admission will have to be newly applied for.

It will also imply:

  • Loss of amounts previously paid.
  • Payment of the pending amounts of fees from previous academic years, as a precondition to accept future enrollment.
  • Denial of issuance of certificates or titles when you have pending payments; the University may establish on these amounts a surcharge equivalent to the official interest rates for the debt period.