The international doctoral program in “Agriculture and Environment for Development” provides students with advanced methodological tools for both basic and applied research. It is an inter-university program, taught by specialists from different disciplines, who have extensive and recognized research activity. The participation of directors from different countries provides global training and allows access to technical, bibliographical and human resources.

The degree aims to provide a broad and solid training in Mathematics, as it contains a wide range of research topics that cover many relevant areas of mathematics, as well as its applications to Physics, Biology, Medicine, Computing, Ecology, Biotechnology, Economics …

The Interuniversity Doctorate Program in Labor Relations and Human Resources, taught jointly with the Universities of A Coruña, Oviedo and Zaragoza, is a pioneer in Spanish universities. The general objective of the program is to provide excellence in training in all areas related to labor relations and human resources in public and private organizations. The doctoral program will allow the development of high-quality doctoral theses, which represent progress and a contribution to scientific knowledge and which promote, at the same time, the transfer of knowledge to society and the incorporation of technical research of the highest level. in public and private organizations.

This doctoral program aims to offer training and theses of excellence in the fields of Work and Organizational Psychology, Legal and Forensic Psychology and Consumer and User Psychology. Research and innovation constitute the basis for the development of this incipient area, providing researchers with specialized training with magnificent prospects at a professional level.

The implementation of a PhD program in Psychology arises as a proposal from the Department of Social, Basic and Methodological Psychology of the USC to the need to have a mechanism for the training of PhDs in Social and Behavioral Sciences within the Galician University System.

Tourism has been consolidated as one of the most relevant sectors from the economic and social point of view, not only in Spain but also worldwide. In the context of disciplines of a social nature, tourism is an interdisciplinary object of knowledge that covers a wide range of activities carried out by private companies and public institutions, with an impact on the lives of people, both residents and visitors. This doctoral program brings together two singularities that make it especially attractive: the participation of 12 Spanish universities with extensive experience in tourism studies, creating synergies and stimuli for the student body; and the interdisciplinary nature with the active involvement of numerous areas of knowledge that contribute to enriching the Program through a wide range of lines of research.

The Political Marketing, Actors and Institutions in Contemporary Societies Doctorate Program is inserted in the field of research in Political Science, Public Administration and Sociology, presenting the doctoral student with a research scenario from the construction of critical thinking as well as discussion , empirical and theoretical insight into key social and political problems, the formulation of relevant research questions and identification of knowledge gaps in the field of political and social sciences.

The main objective of this doctoral program is research and innovation on socio-educational programs, actions, resources and policies necessary to achieve equity in education.

Doctoral studies in Education are aimed at training researchers, with a strong emphasis on both qualitative and quantitative research methodology and techniques.

This program is adapted to a specialized and competitive postgraduate offer with respect to the university, national and international environment, increasing the social prestige of postgraduate studies. With this proposal it is intended to reinforce the prestige of the research trajectory of the USC.

This doctoral program provides a double continuity: firstly, to the previously existing doctoral program, and secondly to the Official Master's Degree in Regional Development and Economic Integration, which is provided by the teaching period. It deals with a rigorous, transversal program and with the participation of multiple areas of knowledge seeking interdisciplinarity in analysis rather than the excessive specialization that occurred in some of the doctoral courses of a more formal nature, scarcely intensive and with hardly any orientation to the research training.

This doctoral program is inter-university in nature and researchers from the universities of A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela participate in it. Their teams also include researchers from the universities of Barcelona, Oviedo and Valencia, as well as the Matia Gerontological Institute (INGEMA).

The Doctorate in Contemporary Communication and Information offers university training with a high level of specialization to meet the academic and scientific needs that derive from the different lines of research linked to Journalism and Audiovisual Communication.

The Doctoral Program in Economic Analysis and Business Strategy arises from the commitment of a group of professors from the Faculties of Economic and Business Sciences of the three Universities of the Galician University System (SUG) who intend to join forces to train researchers capable of publicizing their work in internationally disseminated journals specialized in economics and academic journals present in the Journal of Citation Report (JCR).

The teachings of the Doctorate in Environment and Natural Resources at USC have a long history with more than 30 years of experience in postgraduate courses and doctoral programs.