Forms for your doctorate
Getting started:
Your Supervisory Meetings:
Please note: You must be able to submit the minutes of at least three interviews in order to be admitted to the doctoral examination; the first doctoral interview must be held in the first doctoral semester.
Your Supervisory Meetinngs - Orientation
- "Shaping the Doctorate Together - Recommendations for Supervisors and Doctoral Candidates"
- Best Practice Agreement of the Deutscher Hochschulverband (German University Association) and THESIS on the doctoral supervision relationship (pdf)
- JMU guidelines on compliance with good scientific practice.
Your Academic Achievements:
- Recognition of achievements in the compulsory elective area: handout (pdf).
- Transcript of Records: to be submitted upon admission to the doctoral examination process; can already be completed during the doctorate to record your achievements (docx).
Your Admission Extensions:
- Extension of admission after six semesters: sample letter for application by the first supervisor (docx).
- If you have completed your first six doctoral semesters in our Graduate School and your curriculum, enrolment is no longer mandatory. You can continue your doctoral studies at the Graduate School, provided you remain admitted. You can also take your oral exam at the Graduate School in front of your supervisory committee without being matriculated; you only need to be admitted to your doctorate at the GSH at the time of your oral exam.
- Information on further extensions of admission.
- Extension of admission due to leave of absence (e.g. due to child birth or child caring etc.)
Your Student Status - to be applied for at the Student Affairs Office:
- Semester of leave: instructions for applying.
Please note: Please inform us in good time before you take a semester off. - Guest student/auditor status: for attending courses without current enrolment.
