Structured Doctorate
A Doctorate is your first independent body of research and it qualifies you as a scientist and researcher.
Different Procedures
- Structured Doctorate
- fixed curriculum
- set time period
- can be linked to funding
- tied to the membership in a graduate school or center. Most of the time, qualification measures are obligatory.
- Individual Doctorate
- independent time management since it is not tied to a graduate center or a Doctoral Program
- only continuous dialogue with supervisor
- especially suitable for External Doctoral Candidates
- more freedom and the possibility to adapt the Doctoral Process to the individual life style
- oftentimes not directly linked to funding opportunities
Doctorates at Hochschule Geisenheim University
- structured Doctorates
- are thus tied to the membership at its Graduate School
As the a "Hochschule des 'Neuen Typs'" (= "New Type" University), Hochschule Geisenheim University holds the right to award doctorates, which is excercized in cooperation with a German or foreign university that also holds the right to award doctorates.