Supervision Agreement

One primary requirement is identifying a professor who agrees to supervise your thesis, and will need to provide documentation confirming this agreement (Supervision Agreement).

The following web pages include information on individual chairs and research areas of professors:

• Professors and "Junior-Professors" (Assistant Professors) of the Faculty
• Research Topics by Faculty Member

Previous education

• Master's degree or equivalent
• Eligibilty:
  • Proof of grades (such as a transcript) of bachelor's, master's, or comparable degrees totaling at least 100 ECTS in the field of study that you will be pursuing doctoral studies, or
  • Proof of grades (such as a transcript) of bachelor's, master's, or comparable degrees totaling at least 30 credits in the field of study that you will be pursuing doctoral studies; and proof of grades (such as a transcript) of bachelor's, master's, or comparable degrees totaling at least 70 credits in other subjects, that your primary advisor considers useful in terms of your intended dissertation topic.
• Master's degree or equivalent with a grade point average of at least a 2.5or
• Proof of suitability and relevancy for the doctoral programme. The suitability should be outlined in the expose.
• Minimum total of previous education:
  • Master's degree with at least 300 ECTS total including the bachelor's degree, or
  • Master's and bachelor's degree with at least 240 ECTS total and a grade point average of at least a 1.5

Language skill requirements

• German at the the level of the DSH-2
– or –
• English at the level C1 of the Common European Framework.

• Details
• Application