Doctorate's Studies

To submit an application, the documents listed below must be uploaded online via the "Online pre-registration: data capture". To do this, you must first create a basic account.

Here you will find the instructions for the online pre-registration: data capture for prospective students who do not yet have a basic account.

For applications from applicants who are already enrolled, you can find the “my applications” feature via your UGO account.

EU/EEA/Switzerland Citizens: Create an application. You must then upload the required documents online as PDFs of sufficient quality. Please note that educational documents can only be considered if they meet the appropriate legalization requirements!

Third-country nationals: Create an application. You must then submit the required documents by post. Please note that educational documents can only be considered if they meet the appropriate legalization requirements!

Please note the relevant deadlines by which you must complete your application correctly and completely, see https://studienabteilung.uni-graz.at/de/termine-fristen/bewerbungs-und-fortehrungsszeitrien/ 

Please note that there is an admissions process via a selection committee for admission to the doctorates listed below and that additional or other documents may be required. For information on this, please contact our Doctoral Academy.

Currently, this applies to the following doctorate's programmes:

- Interdisciplinary Doctoral programme at the Faculty of Environmental, Regional and Educational Sciences (URBI Faculty)

- Doctoral programme in Natural Sciences at the Faculty of Environmental, Regional and Educational Sciences (URBI Faculty)

- Interfaculty doctoral programme in Teaching Methodology

- Interdisciplinary Doctoral programme Antiquity and Modernity in a European Context

- Doctoral Programme of Religious Studies and Sociocultural Discourse

Please know that with the winter semester 2024/25, it will apply to ALL dotorate's programmes.

• Filled our Application Form
• Copy of a valid Identification Card or Passport
• Documents of completed Master's degree or completed diploma's degree:
  • Degree Diploma
  • Evidence of accomplished courses (Transcript of Records or Diploma Supplement including ECTS, credit points or contact hours)
• recommended if applicable: documents of completed Bachelor's degree
  • Degree Diploma
  • Evidence of accomplished courses (Transcript of Records or Diploma Supplement including ECTS, credit points or contact hours)
• Language certificate
• Doctorat Teaching Methodology (interdisziplinary): Vorab-Einigung
• Doctorat NAWI: Anmeldung zum Doktorat der Naturwissenschaft
• Doctorat SOWI:
  • Summary of the master's/diploma thesis
  • Table of content and bibliography of the master's/diploma thesis
  • for non-EU-degrees: study plan and course descriptions of the master's/diploma degree
• Doctorat Theology: Vorab-Einigung
• Doctorat URBI: Vorab-Einigung (= Application for Registration in Doctoral Studies of the intendet doctorate's school) 

We would like to point out that according to the Austrian University Act (Section 60, Paragraph 6), applications may only be submitted by the applicants themselves or by a person who is authorised to professionally represent parties in Austria. Applications submitted via an agency, for example, will be rejected!

Only complete (with all necessary documents) applications for admission can be considered for admission. Submitting incomplete applications can lead to longer processing times and further to the rejection of the application!

If the original document has not been issued in English or German, a translation into German or English is mandatory.

The translation has to be issued by a sworn translator! We accept translations issued by a sworn translator from Austria as well as from other countries.

Here, for example, you can find sworn translators in Austria.

The translation must be uploaded as one PDF together with the corresponding original document.

Foreign documents generally only give the same evidential value as domestic public documents if they hold the mandatory legalisation form on the original documents. The necessary legalisation depends on the country the document was issued in.

Detailed information about the necessary legalisation can be found here.