The University of Castilla-La Mancha announces the Extraordinary Doctorate Awards each year to distinguish outstanding doctors who have defended their theses in the immediately preceding academic year, based on their third-cycle academic record and the quality of the theses.
There is one award for each of the five branches of knowledge (Arts and Humanities, Sciences, Health Sciences, Social and Legal Sciences, Engineering and Architecture) although, depending on the number of theses submitted, the EID-UCLM Management Committee may decide to concede as many awards in a given branch of knowledge as the whole number closest to the number of theses submitted in that branch, after division by ten.
The School appoints a jury to evaluate the applications for each of the branches of knowledge. It is made up of five university professors or academics with at least two CNEAI six-year research periods. Each jury is responsible, within its branch of knowledge, for examining the requests and making a proposal for the award.
The general requirements are:
- To have defended the doctoral thesis in the preceding academic year.
- To have obtained the grade of "Cum Laude" in the thesis evaluation.
- To submit the thesis by the deadline established for the award.
Once the confidential reports on the theses submitted for the award have been examined, applications from candidates whose average score, in the evaluation by members of the jury, is less than 8 points, will be excluded.