Doctorate (PhD)

Academic Requirements

The academic requirements for a doctorate at the TU Braunschweig are:

• a good or excellent university degree at Masters level
• at least 5 years of study
• completion of the Master's programme with a final project or a written thesis

Language Requirements

If you apply for a doctoral degree you do not necessarily have to pass a German language test. You should clarify with your faculty or supervisor, which language requirements you must fulfil, what German proficiency level is being demanded and what language will be used in your dissertation.

To find a professor, who will supervise your work, you first need a detailed idea of the area or the subject you wish to research. Next you can find out, in which institute at the TU Braunschweig this work would be possible:

Core research areas at the TU Braunschweig

Institute at the TU Braunschweig

Then submit a draft outline of your proposed area of research and your CV to the faculty, institute or directly to a professor who is working in your chosen research field.

If you have found a supervisor for your doctoral thesis, the TU Braunschweig must assess and recognise your degree. We need the following documents from you:

• Bachelor´s certificate and all transcripts in the original language and in German or English translation
• Master´s certificate and all transcripts in the original language and in German or English translation

Please send all documents in a PDF file to:

more(at)tu-braunschweig.de

We will then inform you whether your degree can be regarded as formally sufficient for admission to doctoral studies at the TU Braunschweig.

Please note, that in some cases we will have to contact the Standing Conference (Zentralstelle für ausländisches Bildungswesen) in written form. and that in this case the recognition procedure can take up to eight weeks.

The next step is the official application to the TU Braunschweig. Please fill in our online application form and send it to us.

Online Application

Then print out the online application, sign it and send it to the Incoming Office together with the following documents:

• certified copies and translations of your university certificates (Bachelor´s and Master´s certificates and all transcripts in original language and English or German translation)
• topic of your doctoral thesis
• confirmation from your supervisor at the TU Braunschweig
• certificate of German or English language proficiency (or exemption from your supervisor)
• curriculum vitae
• letter of scholarship award (if applicable)
• certificate of exmatriculation (if you have already been enrolled as a PhD student at a German university before)
• passport size photo

The processing time for applications submitted to the International Office is approximately 8 weeks. Once we have processed your application we will send you a letter of acceptance.

Please note that you must also register with your faculty.