General Information on Doctoral Procedures
- As a Doctoral Candidate, you may register as a Doctoral Student at Hochschule Geisenheim University.
- This can have various advantages. Please contact Hochschule Geisenheim University's Doctoral Office for more information!
- A Doctoral Project at Hochschule Geisenheim University is designed for a duration of three years. Doctoral Projects usually take up more time, with for example 4.3 years average in the natural sciences.
- Doctoral Candidates submit a written progress report anually by January 31 via Hochschule Geisenheim University's Doctoral Office to the supervisors. The reporting period is January - December.
- While working on a Doctoral Project, the following requirements have to be fulfilled as part of the curriculum of Hochschule Geisenheim University's Graduate School:
- Presentation on your Doctoral Project as part of the Graduate School's Lecture Series at the beginning and at the end of the Doctorate;
- Attending Hochschule Geisenheim University's Graduate School's Lecture Series 12 times (the current program is released at the beginning of each semester);
- Taking part in three mandatory modules offered by the Graduate School;
- Power Point or Journal Club at Hochschule Geisenheim University with at least for dates and a "paper" presentation;
- Scientific presentation –speech;
- Scientific writing workshop or scientific writing tutorial with four dates and a personal writing coaching session;
- Taking part in three elective modules offered by the graduate school;
- Attending conferences
the Doctoral Platform makes further qualification measures offered by its cooperating institutions available for the Doctoral Candidates.
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You can publish your dissertation as a monograph or cumulatively. The publishing style of your dissertation is mostly determined by Hochschule Geisenheim University's Doctorate Regulations. Additionally, you should take deviating regulations in the cooperating university department's Doctorate Regulations into account.