Start of doctorate from June 2012

Doctoral candidates accepted in accordance with the doctoral degree regulations of 05.06.2012 are automatically transferred to the doctoral degree regulations of 15.11.2016.

The guidelines for the cumulative dissertation in economics, in accordance with § 9 paragraph 2 of the doctoral degree regulations of 15.11.2016, can be found here.

The guidelines for the cumulative dissertation for Dr.-Ing. and Dr. rer. nat. according to § 9 paragraph 2 of the doctoral regulations of 15.11.2016 can be found here.

Before starting work on the dissertation (i.e. as soon as you have received confirmation of supervision), each doctoral candidate must submit an application for admission to doctoral studies to the Dean's Office of the Faculty. We have compiled the following documents to help you with this:

- List of documents to be submitted (to-do list) 
- Application for admission 
- Supervision agreement 
- Supervision agreement Only the German version is legally binding
- Proposal for doctoral studies (doctoral study plan)
- Declaration of doctoral attempts 
- Recognition of the rules for safeguarding good scientific practice and procedures in the event of suspected scientific misconduct for Clausthal University of Technology 
- Rules for safeguarding good scientific practice and procedures in the event of suspected scientific misconduct for Clausthal University of Technology 
- Binding declaration on the protection and confidentiality of confidential information mandatory for external doctoral candidates:to be completed internally

According to § 9 para. 2 sentence 4 NHG (Lower Saxony Higher Education Act), doctoral candidates should enrol as doctoral students.
To enrol, please contact the Study Center(Student Secretariat) in the main building of Clausthal University of Technology.

Doctoral candidates should apply in the same way as other prospective students via the TU Clausthal study portal.
The deadlines for enrolment for a winter semester are 15 October, for enrolment for a summer semester 15 April of each year.

Information on the semester fee can be found at

http://www.studienzentrum.tu-clausthal.de/das-studienzentrum/studentensekretariat/semesterbeitrag/

In due course (after completion of the dissertation), the dissertation must be submitted to the faculty in consultation with the supervisor, together with further documents to be taken from the list. The following documents will help you:

- List of documents to be submitted (to-do list) 
- Application form 
- Affidavit (see also "Rules for safeguarding good scientific practice and procedures in the event of suspected scientific misconduct" )
- Statistical sheet

Here you can view a sample of the title page of a dissertation .

The Faculty Council decides on the opening of the doctoral procedure at the next meeting or by circulation procedure.

Before the publication, which must take place within one year (the period begins on the day of the oral examination), you must first apply for permission to print. This must be completed and signed by you and countersigned by your supervisor. The application must be submitted to the Dean's Office of the Faculty in order to obtain the necessary permission for final publication from the Dean.

- Application for permission to print (form) 
- Information on electronic publication 
(§ 12 para. 2 a Doctoral Degree Regulations dated 15.11.2016)
- Information on publication as a book in a publishing house 
(§ 12 para. 2 c Doctoral Degree Regulations dated 15.11.2016)

Clausthal University of Technology would like to maintain contact with its alumni. If you are also interested in keeping in touch with your university and your former fellow students and receiving invitations to university events, you can register free of charge and without obligation in the alumni database at the following link: http://www.alumni.tu-clausthal.de/mitglied-werden/