How to register online and prepare your application

Candidates must also satisfy the following requirements:

Agreement of a professor to act as thesis supervisor;

Agreement of the Faculty.

These agreements are validated by the signature on the PhD form.
 

Procedure

After having confirmed your online application, you must send within 3 weeks and before the deadline the required documents (see below) to the following address:

Note:
only complete applications submitted within the specified deadlines will be examined. If one or more of the documents referred to below are missing without justification, the application will not be considered. 

Content of applications for a doctoral programme (Please do not submit stapled documents!):
 

- a signed copy of the confirmation of the online application sent to the candidate by e-mail immediately after applying online

- a passport format photograph

- a complete curriculum vitae up to date

- a copy of the upper secondary school diploma, the university diploma(s), as well as the diploma supplement(s) if received. 

- a copy of all transcripts obtained in all examinations taken at the university or HES.

- a copy of the programme description concerning the final semester or the last year of the Master's degree, if the Master's degree has not yet been obtained 

- a copy of the passport or identity card

The prospective PhD student must also send the two copies of the completed and signed PdD form to his/her thesis director. The link to the form is provided in the online application and in the email acknowledging receipt sent immediately after the confirmation by the candidate (to be printed out by him/her).

The thesis director signs and forwards the form to the Doctoral School or the Dean’s Office, who stamps and signs the document before returning it to the Admissions Office by 15 October 2021 (autumn semester 2021/2022) or 28 February 2022 (spring semester 2022). It is therefore important for the candidate to forward the PhD form to the thesis director without delay.

For Swiss diplomas : if the university diploma has not yet been obtained, the final transcript or a certificate confirming that the student has fulfilled all the prerequisites to obtain the degree has to be provided