About us

Our Graduate School was created with the mission of ensuring the quality of the doctoral programs imparted by the University.

Our commitment is to facilitate policies and mechanisms to help curricular flexibility for our students and to promote the internationalization and interdisciplinary nature of our courses.

The Graduate School, through its multidisciplinary team, is in charge of all the 39 doctoral programs taught by the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. In addition, the Programs Directorate and Vice-Chancellor’s Office for Research are in charge of ensuring the quality of our academic offer.

Quality Assurance Area

Support for accreditation processes.
Follow-up and mentoring for the development plans of all programs
Internationalization and future relationship with strategic partners.

Scholarships and Grants

UC scholarships and grants for doctoral students.
Support program for ANID (National Agency for Research and Development) Scholarship applications.

Curricular Area

Regulatory matters.
Creation and modification of programs.
Transversal Skills Program (TSP).
Curricular monitoring of doctoral students.

Internationalization

Promote and strengthen strategies and mechanisms for internationalization and cooperation with strategic partners.
Guide, support and accompany international students in their integration process to the UC community and in Chile.
Attract top-level foreign students.

Support for the Doctoral Thesis Supervision

Promote excellence in doctoral training.
Install an Institutional policy for the direction of a doctoral thesis.
Develop support mechanisms for the development of the thesis for students and academics.

Learn more about our areas of work

Coordinator: Natalia Orellana
norellanag@uc.cl

Responsible for Accreditation and Follow-Up: Denisse Lassnibatt denisse.lassnibatt@uc.cl

Objectives:

To support doctoral programs during their accreditation processes; to monitor the development plans of the programs.
To promote and reinforce the strategies and mechanisms of the internationalization of doctoral students and their relationships with strategic partners.
To provide support in the process of creating doctoral programs.

Areas of action:

Development of a Manual of Ethical Integrity in doctoral programs.

Instances of induction to the accreditation process.

Supporting and monitoring of accreditation processes: accreditation as a continuous process rather than a highlight.

Improving access to information for doctoral programs, especially in relation to agreements with international institutions.

Increasing the use of existing co-tutoring agreements.

Production of manuals and instructions to facilitate the processes of accreditation, co-guardianship management, agreements, creation of programs, and so on.

Development of guidance material to support the Faculties with the documentation for the CNA. Good Practice Manual.

Objectives:

Management of internal competitive funds for doctoral students (VRI scholarships, internships, etc.)
Management of international competitive funds.
Guidance and support for students to access financial opportunities for the development of their doctoral careers.

Areas of action

Funds:

Coordinator: Cynthia Castillo cycastillo@uc.cl

Assistant: María Inés Torres mariaines.torres@uc.cl

This area advises programs and students about their curricular progress, graduation requirements, current regulations and study programs.
Manages and coordinates the Transversal Skills Program (Programa de Habilidades Transversales) (PHT) composed of:
- Workshops: Complementary training in addition to the study programs to develop transversal skills and knowledge.
- English Courses: courses to improve the learning and proper use of English as a second language.
- Data analysis of the student’s academic history to facilitate curricular monitoring and to ensure that they meet the required steps to graduate and to apply to the residency benefit.
Documents and protocols
Transversal Skills Workshops and English Courses

Contact

Alameda 324, piso 4, Santiago.