Admission Documents

Please fill in the “Admission Form for Doctoral Studies according to §4 of Doctoral Regulations” (note below) and upload it with all attachments (individual documents please) to Docfile. 
Please submit the printed version (without attachments) by post to the doctoral office.

• Admission Form for Doctoral Studies According to §4 of Doctoral Regulations
• Antrag auf Zulassung zum Promotionsstudium
• Preconditions for Admission
• Course of the Admission Procedure (2015 Doctoral Studies Regulations)

Supervision Agreement

• Supervision Agreement Form
• Betreuungsvereinbarung

Documents for Submitting a Dissertation

Please upload all documents (including the submission form) to Docfile. You can submit your application during office hours or send it by post. 

a) the submission form (das Gesuch) in German or English ( (without attachements) and

b) a bound copy of the dissertation 

c) The Doctoral certificates must be submitted in the original.  

You will be notified when the application has been reviewed and you will be admitted to the doctoral examination. A processing time of up to four weeks can be expected. You can therefore send your dissertation copies to your examiners in advance, stating that they will be sent with reservations as you have not yet been admitted to the examination.

• Submission form
• Gesuch
• Declaration on oath
• Eidesstattliche Erklärung
• Declaration on the monographic or cumulative dissertation
• Erklärung zur kumulativen oder monographischen Dissertation
• Stay abroad
• Auslandsaufenthalte
• Declaration avcording conflict of interest
• Erklärung zu möglichen Interessenskonflikten
• Data Collection and Storage
• Kenntnisnahme der Datenerhebung und -speicherung

• Front page template
• Titelblatt der Dissertation
• Form for a Cumulative Dissertation
• Antrag für eine kumulative Dissertation
• Instruction Sheet for Self-quotation
• Selbstzitation

The number of publications to be submitted to the exchange office of the University and City Library has been reduced

26 copies for self-published works

26 copies for publication of cumulative dissertations (all papers published or accepted for publication)

5 copies in the case of publication by a publisher

(and 1 copy each to the members of the examination committee, or enquiry with the supervisor required, as the supervisor is entitled to 4 copies)

2 copies for publication via KUPS.

Confirmation of the Disputation Appointment

• Confirmation of the Disputation Appointment
• Terminbestätigung der Disputation

Overview of current doctoral courses

• List of current Doctoral Courses