Do you want to pursue a doctorate at Universität Regensburg or are you already working on one now? This site offers some important information and links relating to pursuing a doctorate.
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Doctoral candidates should act in accordance with the doctoral degree regulations (Promotionsordnungen) currently followed by the faculty in question.
The dean´s office of a given faculty is responsible for all formalities related to the progress of their own doctoral candidates. You can find further information on the individual faculties´ webpages:
At Universität Regensburg, doctoral studies differ depending on the subject. Furthermore, some are within structured programs, and some are not.
How a candidate proceeds depends on the guidelines and formalities set out in the doctoral degree regulations (Promotionsordnungen).
Each program is organized in a different way. You can find more detailed information on what is available on the webpages detailing the individual programs.
The following structured doctoral programs are currently available:
Cooperation of bavarian universities ![]() Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics | |
Elite Network of Bavaria: International Doctorate Program ![]() Evidence-Based Economics | |
GS OSES Universität Regensburg ![]() ![]() Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies | |
DfG-Research Training Group 2337 ![]() Metropolity in the pre-modern era | |
Institute of Art History with Partners ![]() International Doctoral College "Aisthesis" | |
Faculty of Philosphy, Art History, history, and Humanities, And Faculty of Languages, Literature and Cultures ![]() ![]() Doctoral College of the Faculties of Philosophy (PUR) | |
DFG-Research Training Group 2339 ![]() IntComSin: Interfaces, Complex Structures, and Singular Limits | |
Integrated Research Training Group in DFG-Collaborative research center 1085 ![]() Higher Invariants, Interactions between Arithmetic Geometry and Global Analysis | |
Integrated Research Training Group in DFG-Collaborative research center 1277 ![]() Emergent Relativistic Effects in Condensed Matter | |
Elite Network of Bavaria: INternational Doctorate Program ![]() Topological Insulators | |
Integrated Research Training Group in DFG-Collaborative research centre 960 ![]() Graduate Research Academy RNA Biology | |
DFG-Research Training Group 2174 ![]() Neuroscience Graduate Programme "Neurobiology of Emotion Dysfunctions" | |
Faculty of Biology und Pre-clinical medicine studies ![]() Regensburg International Graduate School of Life Science (RIGeL) | |
Elite Network of Bavaria: International Doctorate Program ![]() RNAmed "Future Leaders in RNA based Medicine" | |
DFG-Research training Group 1910 ![]() Medicinal Chemistry of Selective GPCR Ligands | |
DFG-Research training group 2620 ![]() Ion Pair Effects in Molecular Reactivity | |
Integrated Research Training Group in DFG-Transregio 325 ![]() Assembly Controlled Chemical Photocatalysis | |
Elite Network of Bavaria: International Doctorate Program ![]() Receptor Dynamics: Emerging Paradigms for Novel Drugs | |
Elite Network of Bavaria: International Doctorate Program ![]() Photo-Electro Catalysis (PEC) | |
Faculty of chemistry and pharmacy ![]() ChemPharm Graduate School Regensburg | |
Integrated Research Training Group in DFG-Transregio 221 ![]() Modulation of graft-versus-host and graft-versus leukemia immune responses after allogeneic stem cell transplantation | |
else Kröner-Research College Regensburg ![]() Interdisciplinary Translational Immuno-Oncology | |
Faculty for medicine ![]() Biomedical International Graduate School (BIOMEDIGS) | |
Faculty for Medicine ![]() Graduate program Humanwissenschaft | |
Universität regensburg teacher education centre (RUL) ![]() Research Training Group |
Always make sure to discuss your options for financing your doctoral studies with your supervisor. The following tips do not replace such a discussion, but may serve to complement it.
Also, take note of the information for students (scholarships und stipends) and for academics.
Job ads at Universität Regensburg (Stellenausschreibungen)
Faculty of Medicine research support program
(Forschungsförderprogramm ReForM)
Mobility programs of the faculties
for Human Sciences
for Languages, Literature, and Cultures
Promotion of equal opportunities for women
Sponsors and foundations of the Universität Regensburg
(Förderer und Stiftungen für die UR)
Oskar-Karl-Forster scholarship, a subsidy for printing costs of theses, including dissertations by needy doctoral students (Oskar-Karl-Forster-Stipendium)
Funding opportunities of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for research stays abroad
Euraxess Databases for researchers moving internationally
ELFI - Service Agency for Electronic Research Funding Information
Comprehensive database for research support
While doing your doctorate, you can enroll as a doctoral student for up to 6 semesters, and in this way obtain student status. A prerequisite for this is that you are accepted into a doctoral study program at a faculty of Universität Regensburg. You may, however, also work on your doctorate without prior registration.
The Registrar´s Office (Studierendenkanzlei) can provide you with more information on registering as a doctoral student. International doctoral candidates can also get advice from the Welcome Center.
It is also possible to undertake doctoral projects at Universität Regensburg which are supervised cooperatively by teaching staff at UR together with teaching staff from other universities both within Germany and abroad. Further details are dealt with in the doctoral degree regulation (Promotionsordnung). The dean´s office of the faculty in question is responsible for the candidates progress in the doctoral process.
The Bayerische Wissenschaftsforum (BayWISS) supports cooperatively supervised doctorates at Bavarian universities by setting up research training groups. You can find links to external websites and information about currently existing groups here.
The BayWISS research training groups "Health" (Verbundkolleg Gesundheit) and "Economics" (Verbundkolleg Ökonomie) have their headquarters at UR. The BayWISS coordinating office at the Center for Graduate & Postgraduate Researchers will be happy to answer your questions (contact "Health", contact "Economics").