Doctoral Studies

The faculty's Academic Initiative Management & Entrepreneurship regularly carries out and successfully completes doctoral projects. The basis of the doctoral studies and the doctoral procedure are the doctoral regulations of the faculty.

The faculty may award doctoral degrees by means of an ordinary doctorate with final disputation, provided that the prerequisites (cf. § 1 Para. 1 of the doctoral regulations) are met. The following doctoral degrees are awarded: Dr.-Ing, Dr. phil., Dr. rer. pol., Dr. rer. nat.

Entrepreneurship, Management & Innovation
Management, Accounting & Finance
Technical Sciences
Business Information Systems
Psychology

Doctoral candidates must apply for admission to a doctorate. For information about the admission procedure and if you have any questions, please contact the Student Service. 

Information on doctoral studies and courses
Application for doctoral studies
Doctoral regulations (including information on cumulative dissertations)

You make it considerably easier for us to process your doctoral project if you observe the following information:
Please notify us of changes in your personal details (change of address, marriage etc.) and in your plans for your studies (supervisor, dissertation topic etc.). Please also inform your supervisor as well as the Dean's Office and if applicable the Student Service.
Keep track of all program deadlines. If you need more time to complete your dissertation thesis, submit an informal application for extension detailing the reasons and including a statement from your supervisor.
Be familiar with the regulations for doctoral programs. Please read the regulations before submitting respective questions.

On the website of the University's Library you find leaflets concerning the publication of your thesis, viz. information about the publication of dissertations in general, about the submission of duty copies as well as a form for submission of dissertations in electronic form.