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FACTS AND FIGURES
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Centres
During the academic year 2002-2003, there were 30,446 students registered at the University in first and second cycles, distributed among the different Centres, with 663 students in International Programmes and 932 in the Teacher Training Course.
The number of degrees issued was as follows: 234 Doctoral Degrees (Ph.Ds); 2,290 Degrees, 1,569 Diplomas, and 66 Grade of Salamanca distinctions. During 2002-2003, the University of Salamanca’s Simultaneous Studies Programme continued, the objective of which is to allow the students the possibility of simultaneously taking two official degrees that complement each other academically and professionally. A total of 267 specific subjects were created.
New Degrees
Teaching was commenced in the new degree of Technical Engineering in Management Informatics at the Higher Polytechnic in Zamora.
Third Cycle
During the academic year 2002-2003 the Research Periods of 69 Doctoral Programmes of the 2001-2003 biennium were carried out, as well as the Teaching Periods of 73 programmes of the 2002-2004 biennium, with a total of 2,050 students registered.
The seventy-five doctoral programmes that will be given during the biennium 2003-2005 were approved: 48 are departmental, 14, interdepartmental, 9, interuniversity, and 4, international.
The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport has awarded “Mention of Quality” to the following doctoral programmes:
– Legal and Economic Aspects of Corruption.
– Advances in Research on Disability.
– Biology and Clinical Practice: Cancer.
– Design, Creation and Evaluation of Drugs.
– Molecular Microbiology and Genetics.
– Neurosciences.
– New Trends in Business Management.
– Theoretical and Computational Chemistry.
Since October, 2002, 111 doctoral theses have been read. On the occasion of the festivity of St. Thomas Aquinas, 49 of the new doctors from 2001-2002 were awarded special distinctions.
Complementary aid for doctoral programmes of the University of Salamanca was announced and allocated with a total budget of 96,200 euros; there were 39 applications. Within the programme of grants specific to the University of Salamanca, 68 grants for registration fees in the Third Cycle were awarded. Of the 231 applications for access to doctoral courses from students with a foreign degree, 188 were granted.
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