Before starting your work, check whether you fulfill the admission requirements for being accepted as a doctoral candidate. Please make sure gather information at an early stage. All regulations can be found in the doctoral degree regulations. Colleagues at the Graduate Academy will also be happy to advise you. The Graduate Academy is the central, cross-faculty institution to support all doctorates at the University of Hohenheim. It administers the doctoral procedures and is responsible for supervision and quality assurance at the interdisciplinary level.
You can submit your application for acceptance as a doctoral candidate online via the University of Hohenheim’s doctorate portal. Please sign and return the completed application, along with the required documents, to the Graduate Academy.
If you completed your studies abroad, then after you have submitted your request the Office of International Affairs will check whether your degrees entitle you to start doctoral work. For this process, please submit the certificates for all university degrees (e.g. Bachelor’s, Master’s, Diplom) and the respective transcripts of records. If your certificates are not in German, English, or French, submit them both as an officially certified translation and in the original language. The certified translation seals must bear both the signature and the official seal (with emblem) of the authority authorized to certify the translation.
The decision about your acceptance as a doctoral candidate is made by the doctoral committee. You will be informed in writing about the decision (approval or rejection).
If approved, you will have the opportunity to enroll in the Doctoral Degree Program in Natural Sciences, which you can complete as you prepare your dissertation (more information below).
