Documents for Submitting a Dissertation
Please upload all documents (including the submission form) to Docfile. You can submit your certificates of doctoral studies during office hours or send it by post.
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 (PO 2008: DE|EN | PO 2015: DE|EN | PO 2022: DE|EN)
- Declaration on Oath (DE|EN)
- Declaration on the Monographic or Cumulative Dissertation (DE|EN)
- Stay Abroad (DE|EN)
- Declaration According Conflict of Interest (DE|EN)
- Data Collection and Storage (PO 2008 and PO 2025: DE|EN)
- Dissertation Front Page Template (DE|EN)
- Request for a Cumulative Dissertation for PO 2015 (DE|EN)
- Instruction Sheet for Self-quotation (DE|EN)
Publication
After the oral defense, the dissertation must be published. This can be done either online (via KUPS) or via a publisher or via self-publishing. The number of publications to be submitted to the exchange office of the University and City Library has been reduced:
- 0 copies in case of online publication via KUPS
- 5 copies in the case of publication by a publisher
- 26 copies for self-published works
For cumulative dissertations it was determined that papers published or accepted for publication (in journals with an ISSN) may be replaced by a bibliographical reference.