Doctorate (new)

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
• 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
• Instruction according to DSGVO

According to § 9 para. 2 sentence 3 NHG, doctoral candidates must enrol as doctoral students. Enrolment takes place at the Study Center(Student Secretariat).

Information on the semester fee (student body fee + student union fee + administration 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)
• Opening application
• Affidavit (see also "Rules for safeguarding good scientific practice and procedures in the event of suspected scientific misconduct")
• Statistics sheet
• Short CV or short curriculum vitae (by e-mail!)

The Faculty Council decides on the opening of the doctoral procedure at the next meeting (meeting dates) 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)
• Notes on electronic publication
  (§ 12 para. 2 a Doctoral Degree Regulations of 15.11.2016)
• Information on publication as a book in a publishing house
  (§ 12 para. 2 c Doctoral Regulations of 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/