Doctorates

Requirements for a doctorate are that you have successfully completed a degree programme. The next and most important step on the path to a doctorate is to find professors who can supervise you in your research project. We recommend that you use the faculties' websites as a starting point for your research. There you can find out what research areas the university focuses on and who is doing it.

Research specialisations at the faculties of the UR

If you have found a professor in your research area, please contact him or her directly and introduce yourself with meaningful documents (CV, university certificates, transcripts, list of your publications, brief description of your research project). It is crucial that your qualifications and your interest in a doctoral project in the relevant field are specifically expressed.

At the University of Regensburg, individual doctorates and doctorates in structured programmes are possible - depending on the subject.

The doctoral programmes are structured very differently. In addition to your research work in the respective subject area, they offer you a subject-specific qualification programme, for example on research methods or key skills, and the opportunity to exchange ideas with other doctoral candidates on the programme. You can find more information about the respective offers on the pages of the individual programmes.

List of structured doctoral programmes

You can enrol on a doctoral degree programme and thus obtain student status. However, enrolment is not mandatory: you can also do a doctorate without enrolment.

Requirements for enrolment are that you register for doctoral studies at your faculty and thus apply for acceptance for doctoral studies at the University of Regensburg. To enrol, you will need confirmation of your successful acceptance for doctoral studies. Your contacts for this process are the faculty administrations.

Contact faculty administrations

As soon as you have been accepted for doctoral studies, you can enrol for up to eight semesters of doctoral studies during the doctoral phase. Further information can be found on the pages of the Registrar's Office, which handles enrolment for doctoral studies.

Information on enrolment for doctoral studies

International doctoral students can apply for an extension of their student status for a further two semesters if they can cite adaptation or language problems during the doctoral phase. The Welcome Centre of the Regensburg International Office is the point of contact for international doctoral candidates.

Information for international doctoral candidates

Always discuss funding options for your doctoral project with your supervisors.

In addition, you will find information and funding opportunities specifically for doctoral students under the following links.

At the University of Regensburg, doctoral projects are also possible which are supervised by lecturers from the University of Regensburg in co-operation with lecturers from other universities in Germany and abroad . Further details are regulated by the doctoral degree regulations. The faculty administrations can answer questions about the doctoral procedure.

The Bavarian Academic Forum (BayWISS) supports co-operative doctorates supervised at Bavarian universities and universities of applied sciences by setting up collaborative colleges.

Links and information on the BayWISS website (external link, opens in a new window)

The University of Regensburg is the host university of two BayWISS Joint Academic Programmes, whose coordination office is located at WIN:

• BayWISS Joint Academic Partnership Health
  Contact: baywiss-gesundheit​(at)​ur.de
• BayWISS Joint Academic Partnership Economics and Business
  Contact: baywiss-economics-business@ur.de