Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences (WiSo Faculty)

Doctorates

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General Information

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Your contact at the Dean’s Office of the WiSo Faculty concerning applications for admission to doctoral studies, credit transfers for examinations and requests to take the doctoral examination is Ms Mundorf (tel. +49 221 470-3213; fax +49 221 470-5179).

e-mail: promotionwiso.uni-koeln.de

For initial consultation please use the contact form.

We would like to highlight that we continue to offer Zoom, telephone and email consultations. In the interest of the health and safety of all parties, please use these contact-free options whenever possible. If those options do not work for your situation, we are more than happy to chat with you in-person. Appointment for personal consultation https://xoyondo.com/dp/dvWhYPRFgRkiFRU Please pay attention to the rules and regulations posted at WiSSPo. Note, we are only able to accommodate individuals (no groups).WiSo Student Service Point (uni-koeln.de)

Building: 101, BT 3 (Universitätsstr. 24) WiSSPo 2 (B 3| Raum 0.303)

Please direct any questions regarding CGS scholarships and Ph.D. programs in Economics to Dr.Laske.

Doctoral Procedure

The Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences offers a variety of options for doctoral studies. In addition to the traditional individual doctorate at a chair of the university, you also have the option to become a member in one of our research groups (e.g. DFG Forschergruppe “Design and Behavior”) or you enroll in a course as a scholar of the Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences.

We recommend you to contact a professor of your field of expertise and discuss a possible personal supervision.

The application for admission to doctoral studies should be filed promptly, as soon as you have received the consent of your academic supervisor. The substantive admission requirements are detailed in Section 4 of the Doctoral Regulations. Without admission to doctoral studies, you cannot enroll as a doctoral student, nor can you acquire certificates for doctoral achievements pursuant to Section 5 of the Doctoral Regulations.

Admission, in particular, of international graduates or the holders of degrees other than those offered by the WiSo Faculty is subject to the decision of the Doctoral Committee. In planning your schedule, please note that the Committee as a rule convenes only once per semester.

If you have an international degree, please note the information of the ´Akademischen Auslandsamt der Universität zu Köln`.

Upon completion of your dissertation, you must personally hand in your doctoral examination request at the Dean’s Office using the prescribed form sheet. Here again, Ms Mundorf is the responsible contact.

The disputation, the oral examination, conduces to the defence of the scientific results of your dissertation in front of three professors. The disputation starts with a short presentation of 15 minutes about your most important findings. The following discussion will relate to the presentation and the objective and methodical fundamentals of the dissertation.

After passing the examination, doctorands are awarded their degree on the occasion of a public ceremony, whereupon they vow to the Dean that they will prove themselves worthy of the doctorate at all times. Parents, friends and colleagues are welcome guests at doctoral ceremonies.

Doctoral Regulations of WiSo Faculty

Admission

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.

Doctoral Studies

The Course of Doctoral Studies

Course of Doctoral Studies

Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences (CGS)

Homepage of the Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences (CGS)

A CGS certificate can be obtained for every course with ECTS listed on the CGS course list.

Within the doctoral regulations of 2008, at least 3 lectures/exercises (= methods & theories) and at most 2 doctoral colloquiums are required.

Within the doctoral regulations of 2015, at least 30 ECTS are required, of which at most 12 points can be acquired in research seminars or doctoral colloquiums.

Documents for submitting a dissertation

Since no personal consultation hours can be offered at present, the procedure has changed. Please upload all documents (including the submission form) to Docfile and send the submission form in paper form (without attachements) and a bound copy of the dissertation to the doctoral office. Only 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. Then send the copies of the dissertation to your reviewers. Ask them beforehand whether a bound copy and/or a digital version is required.

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.

Confirmation of the appointment of disputation

Confirmation of the appointment of disputation

Schedule

Attendance examinations at the UoC in the summer semester 2021 can only be carried out if the hygiene and infection prevention regulations of the UoC are observed. An oral defence can be held via conference call.

The dissertation reports (by the reviewers) and confirmation of the date of the oral defence (by the doctoral candidates) must be received by the doctoral office four weeks before the oral defence.The doctoral office is closed from 30 August to 20 September 2021. If the reviews of the dissertation and the confirmation of the date are received by 23.8.2021, the disputation can take place with a four-week deadline. If the expert opinions and the confirmation of the date of the disputation are received between 24.8.2021 and 20.9.2021, the disputation can take place from 7.10.2021 at the earliest.

If the doctoral students have not objected to it, the oral defense is held publicly in the faculty. However, listeners do not have the right to contribute. Physical presence and personal contacts on the campus should be minimized in summer semester 2021.

Appointments of WS 2021/2022

Dates of the doctor pronouncements

Award ceremonies take place both at the end of the summer semester as well as towards the end of the winter semester. The competition is open to all those who have successfully completed the oral examination. Publication does not have to have taken place yet. It has not yet been decided whether there can be a doctoral celebration in the summer semester of 2021.

Dissertations

Dissertations in recent years:

2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016

2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008

2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000

Book list of publications:

2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014