Centro Henry Hazlitt´s PhD program at Universidad Francisco Marroquín, is the pathway offered to students to obtain the doctoral degree, the last and preeminent academic degree that the university can confer.

The program merges all the doctoral studies at UFM without distinction of disciplines, although each doctorate will have the support of the specific department related to the investigation that will be developed.

The degree which is offered recognizes a doctoral investigation founded upon the defense of a thesis based on primary research, equivalent to the PhD or Philosophiae Doctor.

In no case, the doctorate at UFM is a professional degree that offers determined competences for the practice of a career that demands specific university training.  It is a research doctorate that validates the candidate who obtains it as a qualified scientific researcher.

The doctorate is considered as an intellectual enrichment of the aspiring PhD student who freely decides to engage, develop and submit the topic to evaluative research, scientific parameters and the critique of other doctors. Therefore, the concluding statements should provide an objective, general, systematic and verifiable result.

The doctorate may offer the doctoral student an improvement in the professional field, access to certain employment opportunities or grant social recognition. But for Universidad Francisco Marroquín it is the best way for our most valuable researchers to reflect profoundly on their knowledge, experiences and skills as individuals with the ability to act in a free and responsible manner.