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.

Please keep in mind that only documents as PDF in sufficient quality can be considered for admission.

Double-applications (on paper and online) are not permitted! 

• Filled our Application Form
• Copy of a valid Identification Card or Passport
• CV
• 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 teh country teh document was issued in.

Detailed information about the necessary legalisation can be found here.