FAQ

You can enroll at the university during your doctoral studies. Please note that you can be enrolled for a maximum of 6 semesters during your doctorate. Here you will find the advantages of enrolment and the contact persons.

The admission requirements are clearly regulated by the doctoral regulations. These include, among other things, a corresponding degree in an area of business and social science, with at least 50 ECTS credits in economics and social sciences, but up to 20 ECTS credits can also be accredited from other disciplines of relevance for the topic of the doctoral degree. If you do not fulfill all criteria, your application for admission can still be reviewed by the Office of Doctoral Affairs and admission can be granted under certain conditions.

Yes, the copies are sufficient in most cases. However, it may happen that we need a short personal presentation of the original. In this case we would contact you.

For this we refer to the following link.

With the notice of admission to doctoral studies, the enrollment application, your identity card/passport and proof of the paid semester fee, you can enroll for up to 6 semesters via the student administration in Erlangen. You can find more information and contact persons here.

For this we refer to the following link.

Yes, an external doctorate is possible at the School of Business, Economics and Society, as long as you can find a suitable supervisor and work together on your doctorate. External doctoral students must also complete the doctoral program, which is worth 30 ECTS.

The distinction between cumulative and essay-based dissertations is purely legal. If you submit a dissertation with at least two papers already published, it is legally a cumulative dissertation. Otherwise, it is an essay-based one. Operationally, however, this has no impact, as both types are handled in the same way. It is therefore irrelevant that “cumulative” instead of “essay-based” is stored in DocDaten.

Each year there are three PhD collection dates (PST) at our department. The first is usually at the end of April/beginning of May, the second at the beginning of July and the third at the end of November/beginning of December. The doctoral thesis has to be handed in about two months before the respective PST.

You can see the schedule of the doctoral thesis deadlines here.

You will receive the date of your oral examination at least one week before the examination date.

However, we try to announce the dates as soon as possible.

We will send you the two written grades of your reports together with the written invitation to the oral examination.

The third examiner is assigned by the doctoral office and may not belong to the same institute as the first supervisor or second examiner. After agreement, the joint date for the oral examination will be forwarded to the doctoral office.

The final title of the dissertation will be entered into DocDaten by the doctoral office after you have submitted your dissertation.

You will find all the necessary documents and information on opening the procedure under Documents and Services.

Your supervisor will confirm the successful completion of the doctoral programme on page 3 of the application to open the procedure. You must submit the evidence to your supervisor. The programme comprises modules totalling 30 ECTS credits. You and your supervisor will agree exactly how you will obtain these credits, whether through seminars, lectures, conferences or similar.

If you have any questions about the reviewer constellation, please contact the doctoral office. An external second assessment must be approved by the PST doctoral committee (at the latest one committee meeting before the planned start of the procedure) after your first supervisor has submitted an application to the doctoral office.

If this has been agreed in writing with your supervisor, you can write your dissertation in English. Please note that your dissertation must still contain a German title and a German summary.

The co-authors’ declaration must be signed by all participating co-authors and submitted to the first supervisor for each essay.

Please contact the legal adviser Mrs. Heermann, Tel.: 09131 85-23920, if you have any legal questions concerning the topic “Copyright”.

At least three essays must be included and at least one of them must be written by the doctorate alone. In addition, at least two of the articles should have the potential to be published in a high-ranking peer-reviewed journal at an international level.

Your grade is made up of two thirds of the average grade of the thesis and one third of the grade of the oral examination. If there is an intermediate grade which is in the middle between two grades (1.5; 2.5, 3.5), the better grade will apply.

If your thesis is accepted, the grades 1.0 – 4.0 with intermediate grades at quarter note intervals (0.25) will apply. The grades 0.75 and 4.25 are excluded. If your thesis is rejected, the grade will be non rite (5.0).

You will automatically receive the grades in writing from the doctoral office during the doctoral procedure. To view the reports, please contact your assessors directly.

You can find all the library guidelines that are important when publishing your dissertation here. 

After the Doctoral Affairs Committee has confirmed your grades and you can present a signed print approval note, you may publish your thesis in various selectable variants. You will find the different options on our homepage and on the application for publication of your deposit copies, which you received before your oral examination.

You will receive the application for your deposit copies by e-mail from the Office of Doctoral Affairs before your oral examination so that you have enough time to obtain the signatures for the printable copy.

The ready-to-print note on the application for finalisation is the release of your dissertation for publication, which your reviewers sign. You submit this application to the branch library.

As soon as the doctoral office has received confirmation of your successful publication from the library, we will issue your doctoral certificate. We will send you the certificate (German and English) by post.

As soon as the doctoral office has received confirmation of your successful publication from the library, we will issue your doctoral certificate. We will send you the certificate (German and English) by post.

For essay-based theses: Please remember to add a blocking note to your thesis, if necessary, if parts of essay-based dissertations are still in the review process. Send this embargo notice, signed by you and the first reviewer, to the doctoral office. After the doctoral office has signed it, you can forward the application directly to the library.

As soon as the doctoral office has received confirmation of your successful publication from the library, we will issue your doctoral certificate. We will send you the certificate (in German and English) by post.