Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences (WiSo Faculty)
Doctorates
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).
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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. If you have an international degree, please note the information of the ´Akademischen Auslandsamt der Universität zu Köln`.
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 or at the personal consultation.
Doctoral Studies
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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.
Approval for a cumulative dissertation
Supervision Agreement
Self-quotation
Documents for submitting a dissertation
You can submit your application (without attachements) and a bound copy of the dissertation during office hours or send it by post. Please upload all documents (including the submission form) to Docfile 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.
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.
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.
Dissertations
