Start of doctorate before May 2012

• Doctoral Regulations dated January 12, 2010
• Doctoral Regulations as amended on July 20, 2005 

Please note that a doctoral degree under the Doctoral Regulations as of January 12, 2010, is only available to doctoral candidates who have availed themselves of the transitional provision and submitted a corresponding supervision certificate (transitional provision) to the faculty by December 31, 2012. If you did not submit this by the deadline, you will pursue your doctorate under the 2016 doctoral regulations (for the procedure, see the separate page “Start of Doctoral Studies from June 2012”)!

In accordance with § 9 (2), sentence 3 of the NHG, doctoral candidates must register as doctoral students. Registration takes place at the Student Center (Student Office).
Information on the semester fee can be found at:
http://www.tu-clausthal.de/students/student-office/semester-fee

At the start of a doctoral program, the primary supervisor must, in accordance with § 5 (3) sentence 2 of the faculty’s doctoral regulations mentioned above, submit a proposal for the work to be completed by their doctoral candidate as part of the doctoral program (doctoral curriculum) ...Go to the "Doctoral Study Plan" form.

The dissertation topic should be assigned no later than after the first semester of the "doctoral program."

When the time comes (after the dissertation has been completed), the completed dissertation and all other required documents must be submitted to the Dean’s Office, in consultation with the primary advisor, for the initiation of the doctoral proceedings. The Faculty Council will decide on the initiation of the doctoral proceedings at its next meeting (meeting dates) or via a written procedure. To ensure the doctoral proceedings are initiated at a Faculty Council meeting, please submit the documents to the Dean’s Office well in advance, i.e., no later than 2 weeks before the meeting.

The following documents are required for the initiation of the doctoral proceedings:

• Information Sheet (Overview of all documents to be submitted)
• Doctoral application
• Supervision certificate
• Affidavits (listed on the information sheet as Affidavits No. 1 and No. 2)
• Statistics form

Here you can view a sample of the title page of a dissertation in German and English.

• Application for a printing permit (required before printing the mandatory copies!!!)
• Information on dissertations available in bookstores
• Information on e-dissertations 

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/