Doctoral studies
Are you interested in doing a doctorate at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities?
The doctoral programme is divided into the following sections:
To be able to do a doctorate at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, you must fulfil the admission requirements. In cases of doubt, additional examinations may be imposed on you or a formal doctoral aptitude test may be required. You can find information on this and all other topics in the FAQ section.
You need a topic for your dissertation and this must be related to a subject represented at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. You also need the agreement of three mentors to supervise your thesis. Your doctorate will be supervised by a doctoral mentor; one member of the mentorate will be your first supervisor (doctoral supervisor). Your first supervisor will ask you to submit an exposé outlining your topic and the knowledge you expect to gain.
Your first supervisor will also agree a work plan with you for the realisation of your doctoral project and draw up a mentoring agreement (form available on request from the Vice Dean's Office).
You must submit your application for admission as a doctoral candidate to the Faculty. The office responsible for doctorates is the Vice Dean's Office of the Faculty. To avoid waiting times and unnecessary journeys, you should make an appointment and have all the documents required for admission as a doctoral candidate with you. You will receive a written notification of admission, which will also indicate the subject for which you can enrol for a doctoral programme.
A member of staff at the Examination Office is available to certify any documents you may need for documents issued by the University of Würzburg: https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/studium/pruefungsamt/pruefungsamt-allgemein/beglaubigungen/
Once you have been admitted as a doctoral candidate, the mentoring agreement becomes effective and your doctoral project begins.
Your doctoral project will be intensively supervised by your mentor. You will take part in advanced seminars, doctoral colloquia and other academic events in your doctoral subject and at the same time receive a further training programme that will provide you with additional skills, particularly for your future professional life. The details of this programme are set out in the mentoring agreement.
The training programme is designed to raise awareness of typical problem areas and to prepare you specifically for a management position. Further information on the courses on offer can be found on the course programme page.
The specific dates for the individual courses will be announced by the Vice Dean's Office of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and can be found in the course catalogue.
Your structured doctorate is rounded off with the opportunity to apply for support for material costs within the framework of the research fund and to take part in external training courses.
The application for admission to the doctoral examination is also submitted to the faculty. The Vice Dean's Office is again responsible.
The dissertation is submitted to the Vice Dean's Office with the complete documents.
Your admission to the doctoral examination will be sent to you after the documents have been checked and the dissertation will be sent to the reviewers for the review process.
If the dissertation is accepted, the chair of the doctoral committee will appoint the examination committee and set the date for the oral examination, to which you will be invited in writing.
After passing the doctoral examination, you are obliged to make the approved version of the dissertation available to the public by printing or reproducing it within one year of the date of the oral examination (Section 11 PromO). If this deadline is missed, all rights acquired through the examination expire (§ 11 para. 7 PromO). This deadline can be extended by the chairperson upon reasoned request (by letter or email to: promotionen.phil@uni-wuerzburg.de).
Further information can be found in the current doctoral regulations and on the website of the Vice Dean's Office.
